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20 Can. Bus. L.J. 63 (1992)
Canadian Labour Policies and Global Competition

handle is hein.journals/canadbus20 and id is 79 raw text is: CANADIAN LABOUR POLICIES AND GLOBAL COMPETITION Morley Gunderson and Anil Verma * INTRODUCTION The latter part of the twentieth century will likely be recorded as the era of global competition. Manifestations of this phenomenon include: increasing international trade, investment and multina- tional diversification; European economic integration; compe- tition from Japan and such newly industrialized economies as Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan; the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the possibility of a broader arrangement that will include Mexico; the emergence of super- regional trading blocs; and the opening of Eastern Bloc countries to world markets as part of perestroika. Such changes have had dramatic effects on the countries involved; Canada is no exception. The changes have raised numerous issues and questions with respect to labour policies and global competition. What other forces are at work, along with global competition, that affect the Canadian labour market? Do they offset or exacerbate the effect of global competition? What is Canada's competitive position internationally and especially with respect to our major trading partner, the United States? What are the determinants of our competitive position, especially with respect to labour costs and productivity? How have labour, management and governments responded to global competition, and especially to its adjustment consequences? Is there a role for a Mr. Gunderson is Director, Centre for Industrial Relations, and Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Mr. Verma is Associate Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations, and Faculty of Management, University of Toronto. This paper is the revised version of a paper presented at a conference on Canadian Federalism and Global Competition held under the auspices of the IBTL programme at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, on September 15, 1990. Support for this paper was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for the project on Structural Change in Canadian Industrial Relations, being conducted at the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto.

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