The Federal opposition leader used an appearance in Vancouver today to blast both the Conservative government and the Liberal party for not doing enough to support Canada's labour force.
"In Stephen Harper's Canada, labour is an impediment to profits, an impediment that must be overcome. Why else would his government allow one of the richest banks in the country to lay off dozens of employees just to bring in cheaper workers from another country."
During his keynote address at the United Steelworkers Union's national convention, Thomas Mulcair accused the Prime Minister of not looking out for Canadians.
"If we don't pay attention to the way things are going, we are going to be fighting one more inequality that no one had ever suspected would be as great as it is and that's the inequality between generations."
Mulcair also accused the Prime Minister of using the temporary foreign workers to lower labour standards in this country.
"It's a heavy tendency on the part of the Conservatives. Twenty thousand miners looking for work in Canada and yet they signed off on a deal for a coal mine here in northern BC. They're going to work to lower the conditions of employment of Canadians across the country. This is just the beginning of that attack."
Mulcair took aim at Liberal mp's, who he accuses of repeatedly voting in favour of legislation that hurts workers in this country.
Mulcair also defended his latest visit to BC at the same time the provincial new democrats are campaigning to become government, saying they have his full support.
Yesterday Federal NDP MP Olivia Chow was also in BC helping the provincial NDP campaign.
