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From YouTube: MAY 4 2022 Statements Andrew Mercier
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
langley-
thank
you,
mr
speaker.
The
bc
labor
relations
community
has
lost
a
giant
stan
lanion
passed
away
this
week
on
the
morning
of
may
2nd
stan
was
an
arbitrator,
a
lawyer,
a
former
board
chair,
an
all-around
gentleman
and
a
mentor
to
so
many
of
us,
and
it
is
so
hard
to
overstate
stan's
influence
in
labor
law
in
this
province
and,
to
my
mind,
there
are
few
who
could
equal
the
great
paul
weiler
at
the
labor
relations
board,
but
stan's
impact
surely
rises
to
that
level.
A
He
was
concerned
about
getting
it
right
and
he
did
and
those
decisions,
island,
medical
laboratories
which
overturned
the
all-pulp
cases
and
established
the
you
know
the
presumption
against
multiple
bargaining
units,
allied
hydro,
which
settled
numerous
legal
issues
in
the
construction
sector
are
still
good
law
today,
and
it
is
a
mark
of
stan's
reputation
that
if
you
were
in
front
of
the
labor
board
or
another
arbitrator-
and
you
would-
and
you
said
you
brought
a
stan
lanyon
case
and
said-
that's
not
how
stan
sees
it.
A
You
know
people
would
put
their
pens
down
and
listen
to
you.
But
you
had
to
be
careful
because
you
knew
when
that
decision
maker
that
vice
chair
arbitrator
left
the
room
they
were
phoning
stan
to
say
you
know.
Is
that
really
really
what
you
thought
so
you
had
to
get
it
right
and
that's
just
a
hallmark
of
stan.
He
was
a
gentleman
and
he
was
accessible
and
he
always
made
himself
available
to
you
know:
lawyers,
young
and
old
arbitrators.
A
He
mentored,
it's
fair
to
say
he
mentored
generations
of
us
and
he
never
stopped
being
curious.
Mr
speaker
and
I
know
at
the
end
at
the
end
of
his
career,
I
asked
him
what
he
was
planning
to
do
and
he
was
auditing
divinity
courses
at
sfu
because
he
never
stopped
being
curious.
So
I'm
a
better
lawyer,
a
better
person,
I'm
going
to
stand
stan
we're
going
to
miss
you.
Thank
you,
mr
speaker.