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Harper and the Steelworkers, Together at Last…

by David Doorey June 9, 2009
written by David Doorey June 9, 2009

                                                                                     
 
Turns out the Federal Conservatives’ pro-market, low taxes, small-state ideology is under considerable strain these days.  First, it is spending millions of dollars to bail out failing companies and industries.  If this had been done by an NDP government, the Conservatives would no doubt have been first in line to lambast it as socialism (or worse).  Second, it is racking up huge deficits and debt that the sacred ‘taxpayer’ will pay for decades.  And now–horror of horrors—it is calling on unions to help build a strategy to fend off the Obama government’s protectionist “Buy American” policies, which are hurting Canadian industry.  
The United Steelworkers of America have been pushing a “Buy North American” policy, an idea that the Tories appear now to be worth exploring.   The principle idea is to favor North American companies in public procurement tenders, over “overseas” companies.   What do you think of this strategy?

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Professor Doorey is an Associate Professor of Work Law and Industrial Relations at York University. He is Academic Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. Professor Doorey is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., Ph.D), London School of Economics (LLM Labour Law), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.).

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