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CBTU PLEASED WITH GOVERNMENT REPORT TO SAVE LINE 5

Today, the Special Committee on the Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States released their interim report reaffirming the importance of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline to both Canada and the US. In March, Executive Director of Canada’s Building Trades Unions, Sean Strickland appeared as a witness in front of the Committee to advocate, on behalf of the over 600,000 skilled trades workers that belong to CBTU, for the continued operation of Line 5 until the Great Lakes Tunnel project is complete.

Hearing the recommendations of the Committee, we were pleased that the Government of Canada is standing up for good, Canadian jobs. The recommendations demonstrate cross-party support for an issue that will affect the livelihoods of tens of thousands of Canadians, at a time of such economic uncertainty.

We support the recommendations to continue bilateral advocacy of government officials, invoking the 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty if necessary, a government filed amicus curiae brief to the court of Michigan – and any and all tools at their disposal. CBTU would urge the committee to look at a bilateral, US-Canadian energy policy, one that includes workers, addresses our cross-border energy needs and secures both the US and Canada’s energy future, so we’re not dealing with these issues time and again.

About CBTU

Canada’s Building Trades Unions are an alliance of 14 international unions in the construction, maintenance and fabrication industries that collectively represent over 600,000 skilled trades workers in Canada. Each year, our unions and our signatory contractor partners invest over $300 million in private sector money to fund and operate over 175 apprenticeship training and education facilities across Canada that produce the safest, most highly trained and productive skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world. Canada’s Building Trades Unions represent members who work in more than 60 different trades and occupations, and generate six per cent of Canada’s GDP. For more information, go to www.buildingtrades.ca.

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