GETTING INVOLVED IN A LABOUR DISPUTE, JEOPARDIZING AN ARMS TRADE TREATY, AND LIFE AFTER THE WHEAT BOARD

Saturday, October 15, 2011 | Categories: Episodes, News Promo |

The beginning of labour unrest?

What is behind the government's intervention in the negotiations between Air Canada and its flight attendants? We ask Labour minister Lisa Raitt about the criteria she uses to determine whether or not she'll intervene in a labour conflict. And then we ask two union leaders what they think and how they plan to react to the government's approach.

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Domestic politics trumps Arms Trade Treaty

Is Canada putting a major international arms trade treaty in jeopardy? According to a number of organizations, the answer is yes. They are warning that Canada's recent shift on a proposed United Nations' agreement to establish world-wide standards for the export and import of all conventional weapons could derail the process. CBC national reporter Alison Crawford investigates.

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Churchill is bracing itself for the end of the Canadian Wheat Board

The federal government's promise to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly will be one step closer to reality this week. Once the necessary legislation is tabled, it will only be a matter of time before wheat and barley producers have to change the way they do business. And farmers won't be the only ones dealing with changes. CBC reporter Karen Pauls traveled to the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" to take the pulse of a town that's holding its breath and hoping the government has an 11th hour change of heart.

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Kady O'Malley's That's a Good Question! - Private Members Bill

Opposition MP? No problem. Backbencher? Again, not an issue. With a bit of luck, each individual MP has a chance to introduce a private member's bill. Kady O'Malley takes a look at this fall's crop... And what it will take for those bills to become law.

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