Catprint In The Mash has the relevant exerpts of the new search and seizure authorities of the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. It’s nasty stuff.
Between this and the rising tensions due to inequal enforcement of smoking bans, (the NDP is afraid of the poltiical falllout of taking on First Nations – and they know it) one can’t help but worry that the day will come when someone’s going to get hurt. And it’s going to be the innocent Civil Service Joe just doing his job that finds himself facing a shotgun or baseball bat in the hands of someone who thinks there’s nothing left to lose. After all, it isn’t the health minister who has the dirty work of walking into a failing small town bar alone, searching for contraband ashtrays. It isn’t the deputy minister watching their life savings drip away with every lost customer.
In a real world, the NDP would look at their own dismal record in picking winners and losers – sod turnings for non-existant ethanol plants, the Spudco fiasco – and come to the logical conclusion that they’re not qualified to interfere in the economy. With a virtually uninterrupted history of abject business failure, it’s is the last place Lorne Calvert and Co. should insert their idiotic ideology driven “expertise” .
Latest case in point: another $53 million dollar for the welfare case known as the Meadow Lake pulp mill, located in the constituency of finance minister Maynard Sontag.
For once – just once – I’d like to see a cabinet minister relieved of his pension for failed government investments. While we’re at it, let’s include a few deputy ministers and senior beaurocrats. What the hell – if they want to play the game like bona fide business people, then why not play for real? Seize their homes and property to help pay creditors.
Perhaps then, when politicians decide to invest taxpayer’s dollars in propping up their own poltiical careers, whether it’s in the economy or in the business climate in general – we’ll actually see a little of that “accountability” they like to brag about before the cameras.
Thanks for the link Kate. Thought you might like to know, the nasty powers that the Sask. government is giving the Labour Board is, I believe, already found in every other jurisdiction in Canada. In BC. s.140, federally in s. 16 , in Ontario s. 111 and Alberta in s. 13.
Ya know, considering Sask. has been ruled by Socialists for quite a few of the last 60 years, they’re rather late in this police state business wouldn’t ya say.
Actually, I don’t care if Zimbabwe has similar legislation.
Bob is wrong, he’s parroting a union pamphlet.
Alberta’s S13: (from http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/acts/L01.cfm)
(a) enter, inspect and examine at all reasonable times any premises or other place, other than a private dwelling, in which the officer has reason to believe that a person is employed,
Notice how it specifically excludes private dwellings, doesn’t say anything about related establishments or historical workplaces. (SK uses the word ‘has’ not ‘is’.
Cheers,
lance
In Ontario:
(g) to enter any premises where work is being or has been done by the employees or in which the employer carries on business, whether or not the premises are those of the employer, and inspect and view any work, material, machinery, appliance or article therein, and interrogate any person respecting any matter and post therein any notice referred to in clause (f);
You’ll note no restrictions on private dwellings or historical workplaces,
Federally,
(h) subject to such limitations as the Governor in Council may, in the interests of defence or security, prescribe by regulation, to enter any premises of an employer where work is being or has been done by employees and to inspect and view any work, material, machinery, appliances or articles therein and interrogate any person respecting any matter that is before the Board in the proceeding;
You’ll note no restrictions on private dwellings, while arguably it doesn’t apply to related establishments, the fact is that nowhere in this definition does it say that the employer has to be the employer of the employees involved, which would give the Board the power to enter related establishments.
And Lance, I’ve never seen this union pamphlet, never even heard of this proposed change to Kate brought it up, and I’m telling you, there ain’t nothing there that hasn’t been placed everywhere else.
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