Use the files provided to create your
own personalized letters to the MLAs.
All the files required are found on the web site http://www.ppesa.com/. Mail merges may be created using the one page letter or the two page letter. You must first open the data file MLA Addresses by pointing your browser to http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/MLA_Legislature_Office_Address.htm and saving the file to your local drive. Once you have saved this file open it with Microsoft Word and resave this same file as a word document.
These addresses were obtained by using the data found in the Alberta government pages http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_csv and http://premier.alberta.ca/team/ or http://www.gov.ab.ca/home/documents/ministry_listing.pdf.
If your preference is opening the two page letter you may direct your browser to http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/Temporary_Guest_Workers_Provincial_Mrg_2pgs.htm and store the file to your local drive. Once you have saved this file open it with Microsoft Word and resave this same file as a word document. Once you have saved this file it will ask to indicate the data file and you now browse to the file MLA Addresses that you saved in the first paragraph.
Otherwise open the one page letter by pointing your browser to http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/Temporary_Guest_Workers_Provincial_Mrg_1pg.htm and saving the file to your local drive. Once you have saved this file open it with Microsoft Word and resave this same file as a word document. Once you have saved this file it will ask to indicate the data file and you now browse to the file MLA Addresses that you saved in the first paragraph.
If your require MLA Email addresses they are found in the web page MLA Email Addresses found in http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/MLA_email_addresses.htm. You may create your own Email Address document by opening the MLA Email Address Main Merge document you may direct your browser to http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/MLA_Email_Address_Main.htm and save the file to your local drive. Once you have saved this file open it with Microsoft Word and resave this same file as a word document. Once you have saved this file it will ask to indicate the data file and you now browse to the file MLA Addresses that you saved in the first paragraph.
The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/Scenario_Temp_Guest_Workers.htm or the equivalent Microsoft Word document http://www.ppesa.com/political_action/Scenario_Temp_Guest_Workers_Word.htm explains the dollars lost when we use Temporary Foreign Workers. If you have any questions feel free to contact me:
Mr. Paul Pomerleau
4812 - 43 Street
Beaumont, Alberta T4X 1H2
Telephone
780-929-6398 Home
780-990-6398 Cell
Web Page: http://www.ppesa.com/
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January
15, 2007
Honourable Premier Ed Stelmach
Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville
307 Legislature Building
10800 97 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5K 2B6
Please accept the following issue for discussion and
provide answers in reference to temporary guest workers. All together, there are
many Canadians who are construction tradesman and many of them, like me, live in
Alberta.
The following is an important issue I wish you to
bring up to your fellow members of government. I would like your support for my
position on this issue when your Government colleagues both discuss them
privately and in public.
In brief, my opinion on Temporary Importation of Foreign Workers is:
I
do object to bringing in temporary foreign workers for limited periods of peak
activity. Those jobs have to be offered first to Albertans, then to other
Canadians at the same rate of pay that we receive.
I request that regular audits on an ongoing basis prove that temporary
foreign workers rate of pay is equivalent or
above the average rate of pay of this specific tradesman’s rate. When it is
shown that this rule is broken, the temporary foreign workers are returned to
their home country and the construction contract is then given back to Canadian
workers.
As
an example of the injustice occurring: currently Canada has about one million
(1,075,000) Canadians that are out of work. It takes about nine months out of
work for approximately one million (1,075,000) Canadians to become employed in a
new job.
Foreign workers must receive equal pay and benefits as provided in our
collective agreement and not a lower wage as offered by lower pseudo labor
organizations that make sweetheart contracts with contractors. Bringing in
outside skills can’t be just a backdoor way to get disgracefully priced labour.
It cannot be a means of breaking up unions using the support of the governing
bureaucracy.
Canadian
Natural Resources Limited has a coker project currently underway. From what I
understand most of this project was awarded to a major contractor with the
exception of the electrical subcontract that was awarded to Braid Electric,
which is planning on bringing in temporary foreign labour. I strongly disagree
with this, as I am aware we have tradesmen that are out of work in Alberta and
across Canada.
I recommend that more critical fast track
training and education for tradesmen be provided in order to bring our
approximately one million (1,075,000) Canadians into the work force. This fast
track preparation and schooling of women, single parents, aboriginal people, and
young adults to become tradesmen must be initiated before bringing in temporary
foreign workers.
The extra expenses drained from our economy after one year using
temporary foreign workers in work camps are presently approximately $131,163,123.51
as per my accompanying spreadsheet document. If this continues as predicted in
the next nineteen years the economy of Canada will abandon $502,178,640,130.63.
I
recognize temporary foreign workers are desirable in areas of need such as the
service industry were they pay their own room and board. On the other
hand temporary foreign workers are not required in the construction
industry as there are more than enough Canadians to do this type of employment.
These Canadians are presently working at lower priced employment while temporary
foreign workers are replacing them in camp positions. Should we not be looking
at raising the bar of our standards in times like these versus lowering our
standards?
Sincerely,
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