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Quebec introduces new exception to child labour laws | CBC News

Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet introduced an amendment to his bill restricting child labour to allow children as young as 12 to work in

Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet has amended his law project, Bill 19, regulating youth employment in the province to allow children under 14 to work in agriculture, provided the business has a maximum of 10 employees.

The proposed law, tabled in March, would limit the number of weekly hours Quebecers 16 and under can work during the school year to 17. It also sets the minimum legal working age at 14 — with some exceptions for jobs like babysitting or tutoring.

But Boulet's amendment would allow small agricultural businesses to be exempt from the new minimum working age and employ children as young as twelve.

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This new exemption echoes the demands of employers, who asked for more exceptions to allow children under 14 to work.

But there are concerns over the agricultural environment being risky as injuries in young people are frequent. Some doubt the ability of Quebec's labour regulator, La Commission des normes, de l'équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST), to ensure the safety of children in the workplace.

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Crazy Eddie Punks Out

The madness surrounding the controversial hybrid measure Bill 19, which was hijacked by senator Dennis Rodriguez Jr. to backdoor his own exposed trojan horse legislation (Bill 20) has left Adelup scrambling to explain why lt. gov. Eddie Calvo allowed to lapse into law an effort they have openly criticized and described as "deficient" and "flawed" legislation.

Following Lil' Lyin' Cousin Eddie's Mickey Mouse decision to let Bill 19 lapse into law, rather than sign the trojan horse measure with the primary intent to build an Urgent Care facility that will then be privatized and outsourced to his family's business, the public now looks to freshman lawmaker Michael San Nicolas to provide real leadership on this issue.

Despite admitting that  Bill 19 was "defective" and further recognizing that the public was not allowed to have any input on a radically altered measure that even GMH board hot shot Lee Webber urged Calvo to reject, the confusing and poorly wrought measure was allowed to become law.

This afternoon, San Nicolas filed Bill 149-32, which would repeal Public law 32-060 (Bill 19) which in effect grants a monopoly to one company on gambling devices previously deemed illegal on Guam, and creates a mechanism to create and privatize without legislative consent a valuable revenue stream within Guam Memorial Hospital.

A new measure introduced this afternoon by senator Michael San Nicolas responds directly to the concerns expressed by many in community who want to protect their right to Bingo and cockfights, while disallowing the illegal gambling devices to be legitimized through a backdoor scheme coordinated by Adelup with the office of senator Dennis Rodriguez Jr.

Social media and talk radio commentary overwhelming express the opinion that Calvo's 'lapsing' tactic is another sign of a failure to provide leadership on critical issues.

Meantime, other critics note the discrepancy in what is being pushed by the administration about having a goverment budget surplus and still needing this questionable effort to "help GMH." Also not going unnoticed is how the dishonesty of the administration has "corrupted" honest voices in the community, most notably conservative catholic apologist Tim Rohr.

Common sense challenges the relentless campaign of deception and falsehoods being hustled by the Calvo administration.

Adelup recently signed legislation authorizing GMH to borrow up to $25 million to help with debt reduction. The administration continues to try to convince the public they have eliminated the deficit and accrued a $30 million surplus, thus begging the question why Bill 19 was even necessary.

If, as hospital administrators say, they will use the loan authority to borrow $13 million for debt service and vendor payments, then it would be a relatively easy task for Calvo to use his authority to wipe out the rest of the hospital debt with a fraction of his "alleged" $30 million surplus.

I say "alleged" because truth of the matter is, that audit supporting his claims, performed by Deloite & Touche, is rife with unexplained discrepancies. (You see, unlike most of you and your lawmakers, I actually read the report.)

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A pair of lawsuits filed in 2011 claimed that Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's largest accounting firms, should pay $7.6 billion in damages for failing through years of audits to detect massive fraud at a now-defunct Florida mortgage company. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. faced a spate of scandals in China recently and Deloitte & Touche LLP, in another scenario, agreed to pay $50 million to settle charges stemming from its audit of a sommunications corporation after it was found that Deloitte had engaged in improper professional conduct.

Deloite & Touche, by the way is not a company that should simply be trusted for being accountable and trustworthy - that's why Eddie went to them...Do your research; the company has been involved with schemes to assist Iran launder billions of dollars, and SEC investigators suspect extend to other countries.

Other Deloite & Touche scandals involve China, Hewlett Packard and too many more to detail here...I only want to know, who is going to audit the audit and resolve the discrepancies in that audit! Certainly not Calvo!

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We're back...and "bitch is drunk!"

Effective, quality leadership depends on trust - and the loyalty of followers.  So, one must question why a leader would lie, when the negative consequences of being caught in that lie are easily understood. A leader, especially an elected leader, lies and breaches the trust and loyalty of their followers when they have an agenda to advance, or to support a decision that cannot stand up to scrutiny based on the truth.

At a recent social function, a Tumon businessman asked my opinion on Bill 19 and Adelup's stance on the deceitful measure intended to privatize Guam Memorial Hospital to the exclusive benefit of the Calvo portion of the family controlling their insurance company, and to create a  legalized monopoly on gambling devices for one company. When I asked the deep-pocket GOP supporter what he thought about the matter, he snapped without hesitation, referring to Eddie Calvo, "Bitch MUST be drunk, if he thinks anybody is going to believe that bill has anything to do with paying off hospital debts!" (Thanks to Guamblog follower "Speed Racer" for the graphic submission, manipulated for this post.)

A History Lesson Such is the case with Bill 19 and the relentless cheerleading, lobbying and lying to the public by Eddie Calvo, Rory Respicio and Dennis Rodriguez Jr. Despite their desperate attempt to deceive people, it is quite obvious the public rejects the bullshit.

From the beginning, Guamblog has written that Bill 20, a parasitic measure crafted by individuals associated with Gov. Champ Calvo's law firm, Calvo's Selectcare, and handcarried to Rodriguez Jr. by a doctor from GMH, who is to be partnered with the Calvo's new clinic planned for Dededo, was a trojan horse.

Rodriguez deceptively claimed Bill 20 as his own, and introduced the bill that sought to sneakily create a virtual privatized GMH, which would then, through the Calvo-appointed Board of Trustess at GMH, hand the hospital over to the Calvos a their very own cash cow.

Rodriguez Jr. did this, as part of his sellout agreement to Calvo for a sweetheart tax forgiveness deal for his mother and father worth as much as $2 million, a result of the family failing to pay taxes for years on earned income - from business activities managed by now-senator Rodriguez Jr. at the time.

The trojan horse measure nearly snuck through the sleepy halls of Hesler with little challenge until Guamblog began making noises and causing questions to be asked by mainstream media about the occulted, tricky details legislative staffers failed to read, along with their bosses.

A typical lie is in the form of a declarative statement: “Trust me; you will be rewarded for your efforts in due time.”

Really? When? Why not now, and under what circumstances? Whenever a statement opens with the words “trust me” or “honestly” alarm bells should go off in your head.

If the person saying these things were trustworthy or honest, they wouldn’t need to preface their statement by saying so. Their actions would portray that honesty and trustworthiness.

In 2010, one of the messages splayed on countless billboards and ads for Calvo/Tenorio kept telling people they were honest and trustworthy. Uh huh. Sure.

The bill stalled temporarily as Calvo and Rodriguez regrouped to scheme a run around the impasse. In the interim, Pete "Dongo" Pangelinanv and Gil Shinohara - who "run" Rodriguez's legislative office - connived their own plot to entangle the Calvo/Tenorio administration in the very strings they used to puppetize Rodriguez.

The end result was leeching onto senator Chris Duena's Bill 19, a worthy piece of legislation on its own merits, to create a measure that:

a.) creates an avenue for Guam Memorial Hospital to be virtually privatized to the exclusive benefit of the Calvo clan, and

b.) permanently legalizes the erstwhile illegal gambling machines belonging to "Dongo" and estimated to produce as much as $30 million annually...$30 million that no one has yet asked: "What happened to all that money already generated BEFORE the machines were made illegal?"

And yes - despite the shady legal advice that is an extension of the awful lying habit of the Calvo/Tenorio administration, these machines were and are still illegal.

The clamor from all quarters on this and a range of other topics is far too much for one post. So, in a separate post we will look at what you, the people are saying...about Bill 19, Lotte/GIAA scandal, PAG and GRMC.