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View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
I will broach another issue.
Mr. Conacher, Mr. Dennis Dawson was appointed senator last summer. He was a Liberal candidate in the riding of Beauport—Limoilou during the last election.Your organization made complaints against him,as a lobbyist. It seems that he did not comply with the Lobbyists Act. We know that Mr. Dawson was one of Mr. Martin's political organizers during the party leadership race, and at the same time, he worked as a lobbyist to the Minister of Finance, the same Mr. Martin. He billed invoices to several clients, including the Mining Association of Quebec, and Bell Helicopter Textron. This no longer appears on your website.
Can you tell us where the issue of Democracy Watch stands? What was the conclusion of this case, if there was one?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
What did you have against Mr. Dawson's work at that time? What rules did he break?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
It's my turn now. Good afternoon. I would like to suggest that we reach a moral agreement: I will ask fairly short questions, and I would like your answers to be as short and precise as possible, so that we can get through all the issues.
I would like to talk about the closure of the mail sortation plant in Quebec City, which is causing quite a stir in our area. A broad coalition -- the petition has some 120,000 signatures -- is opposed to that closure. The fact that the mail sortation facility is threatened with closure is disrupting the entire region, which is an important one, being the location of the Capital of Quebec.
I would like to know whether you currently have a plan for office closures across Canada. You say that you are doing this to rationalize your operations, but what was the basis for your deciding to close the facility in the Quebec City area, rather than one in Ontario, Prince Edward Island or Vancouver? Was it based on a comparative analysis of the productivity level of the various mail sortation facilities that you decided to close this facility first?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
So, you don't have a plan in place for the next three years?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
Is it normal for there to be no plan?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
Sorry to interrupt, but you haven't answered my question. I would appreciate your giving me a direct answer to my question.
Of the 22 plants, how many are there in Ontario, for example?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
I believe there are six. Sometimes we ask questions we already know the answer to. People often say it's better that way. Do you consider it normal for there to be six mail sortation plants in Ontario, whereas only one will remain in Quebec? Quebec's population is not five times smaller than the population of Ontario. So, there are to be six sortation plants in Ontario, and only one in Quebec. Do you not consider that unfair?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
And what percentage of your business volume is handled in Quebec?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
It's a little less than half of the volume in Ontario. So, there will be one sortation facility in Quebec, compared to six in Ontario. That is a disproportionate number, compared to business volumes in the two regions.
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
We're not talking about comparable facilities. That one is a parcel facility, whereas the one I'm referring to is a sortation plant. There are about 22 equivalent mail sortation facilities. It's important to compare apples with apples, and oranges with oranges.
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
That leaves five. The fact remains that if it is five to one, the proportions don't seem to be appropriate.
You say that this is just a business decision. But it seems to me that when you make a business decision, you want to know which facility is more productive, and which one is less productive. That calls for a productivity analysis of each facility -- a comparative analysis. You then review the overall situation and close the facility that is least productive. If that is not the process you are following, then I would say you have an odd way of making decisions.
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
I presume you did carry out an analysis on a basis of those criteria and that they probably relate to mail volumes. Could you provide us with your business case for closing the mail sortation facility in Quebec City?
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
I would like that to be tabled with the Committee. The criteria are one thing, but I also would like to know how those criteria were applied. I hope this is a fairly serious study, because we're talking about something major.
I would also like to know -- and I'll tell you right away that I already know part of the answer -- how many permanent positions and how many temporary positions will be lost in Quebec City. When I refer to temporary positions, I'm talking about people with no job security.
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
I'm not talking about jobs, Ms. Greene, but of positions. When jobs are involved, there is always the option of cutting back staff through attrition, or transferring people to Montreal. Here I am talking about positions.
View Christian Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
That's interesting, but it doesn't really answer my question.
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