First Real Test For Dion

Is he pro-business or pro-labour? Where are the votes? Where do the campaign funds come from......? Politics, politics, politics.......

Dion faces early heat on proposed strike law

Business leaders urge Liberals to oppose passage of so-called anti-scab legislation

STEVEN CHASE

OTTAWA -- The first test of how pro-business new Liberal chief Stéphane Dion is will be whether he intervenes to stop a Parliamentary push to ban replacement workers during strikes at federally regulated firms, corporate leaders say.

A coalition of business interests has banded together to kill proposed legislation that they say will give unions the upper hand in future labour conflicts.

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