'Well, it was long overdue. We've been suffering in Western Canada for over a month with this port disruption,' said Alberta's Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen.
“It’s been a yo-yo effect back and forth for over a month and it’s something that it could have been avoided had the federal government had the same level of urgency as it did in Quebec two years ago.”
Dreeshen also said the port strike impacted shipping logistics because goods had to be re-routed through the United States and other ports, then trucked to Alberta. Warehouses were also running low on items, such as produce and other perishable items.
“Everybody’s happy that it’s finally over. But there’s been so many industries that are saying that they’ve had to actually curtail or shut down production. So they’ve actually had to lay off workers or have workers work less hours in a week because they knew that their product wasn’t going to go anywhere.”Dreeshen added Alberta will be making a submission to O’Regan’s office calling on the minister to be given binding arbitration powers.
O’Regan says that he is directing federal officials to review the entire case to avoid a port disruption of this magnitude from happening in the future. “So when there are big macroeconomic issues at play, when you have the Canadian economy essentially as collateral damage for these types of union strikes,” Dreeshen said, “the federal government, the Federal Labour Minister, have binding arbitration powers that can save essentially the Canadian economy.”
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