Angela Hall, Leader-PostPublished: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Premier Brad Wall says his Sask. Party government still has concerns about the trade pact forged between British Columbia and Alberta, and brushed aside NDP suggestions that he's now thinking about signing on.
Wall said he's not in favour of joining the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) because of outstanding issues about its impact on certain tax incentives and on Crown corporation subsidiaries.
The premier said TILMA has been presented as a take-it-or-leave-it agreement.
"Under those circumstances we will not take it," Wall said.
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I'm sure the only real concern he has, is on if after the signing he could possible be re-elected. We should probably wait till after he is done with his right to work for less program. Were we who have fought for benefits, wages and the rights for unions to represent us are replaced with immigrants with substandard training to replace us because they are willing to do our jobs for less. Wait a minute that kind of what TILMA is doing. Just that we never signed an agreement with anybody. Now some of you say that isn't what is happening and your right. But every chess game starts with its first move and ends with someone laying their king down. Right now its move number three if we are lucky in four years we will have held them to a stale mate! Who knows I could be off my rocker just look west to the perfect province of Alberta. Everything there is smelling of roses. It was Mr.Wall who said we needed to be more like them. Funny story, some of our brothers in local 424 have been subsidized by the union so that the company employing them would have a level playing field. The brothers earning higher wages on the industrial jobs compensated them. The government there past a law saying that was illegal activity.
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