«We're not wearing our Ottawa stakeholder hats, we're looking at this from a national perspective,» said Chris Smillie, senior
adviser on government relations for the AFL - CIO's
Canadian chapter, which represents the country's building
trade unions.
She was legal
adviser to the Department of National Defence and the
Canadian armed forces in the period after the deadly 2001 suicide attacks on the U.S. Pentagon and the World
Trade Center, at a time when the government was rethinking security issues and rewriting its contracts for military hardware to strengthen military equipment against the improvised explosive devices that were killing
Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.