Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 66


     
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     2   Q.   No -- well, Labour Board hearings fair enough, but do you
     3        remember any Americans coming over either to the store or
     4        the -- we irritate both Americans and Canadians by failing
     5        to distinguish between the accent, but you can tell an
     6        American, can you, or can you not?
     7        A.  Not really.  I mean, they will have one or two little
     8        phrases like instead of "tomato" they will say, I do not
     9        know, "tomato"; just it is not very much, you know.
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    11   Q.   That is a misunderstanding on my part.
    12        A.  Unless they are from, unless they are from Texas, or
    13        something, where they have an accent.
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    15   Q.   But someone from one of the northern states of America you
    16        would not necessarily realise that he was American rather
    17        than Canadian?
    18        A.  I would not, no.
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    20   Q.   Very well.  Start again, Mr. Morris.
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    22   MR. MORRIS:  OK.  We have already heard from Stan Stein, who is
    23        a senior vice president of the McDonald's corporation, in
    24        the witness box that he came to Toronto during the Labour
    25        Board hearings; do you know if anybody from McDonald's
    26        corporation came to the store during this period of the
    27        unionisation drive and the Labour Board hearings, or do you
    28        remember anybody?
    29        A.  There was one girl, I cannot -- but, I do not remember
    30        her name, and she came down, but it was just basically to
    31        see how the store was running.  I do not remember her
    32        name.  I never spoke to her.  I just .....
    33
    34   Q.   Is this the ----
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    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you want to concentrate on Mr. Stein
    37        alone, because it is obvious some outsiders were there
    38        because the McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited, as
    39        well as Ballantyne Foods Limited, were parties to the
    40        Labour Board proceedings and they granted Mr. Ballantyne
    41        and his company the franchise.  So they were involved.  So
    42        we might expect that there were Canadians from outside
    43        Orangeville there, or visiting the restaurant on behalf of
    44        the McDonald's Canadian Company.  What Mr. Morris is
    45        feeling for is someone from the big corporation in
    46        Oakbrook, Chicago, who might have visited?
    47        A.  So not from Toronto Head Office?
    48
    49   Q.   No ---
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that is right. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- forget for the moment the Toronto office
    54        because that would probably be the Canadian Company.
    55        Mr. Morris is wondering about someone from America who----
    56        A.  Not that I know of.  I do not know of anybody -- like
    57        I did not  .....
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    59   MR. MORRIS:  You cannot remember meeting anybody?
    60        A.  No, I do not remember meeting anyone.

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