Richard Paquin

Richard Paquin has over 40 years of mining experience in uranium and nickel mines. He is now retired, he was Unifor’s Mines, Metals and Minerals director and the Canadian Coordinator for the mining sector on IndustriALL (Global Union). Richard represented over 10,000 Unifor members in the sector and was involved in numerous federal and provincial governmental committees, advisory and Parliamentary committees. He has extensive knowledge of Ontario Mining Regulations and Health and Safety Committees. He was a sitting member, representing labour, on MIHR (federal) and MLRC (Ontario) and assisted with Unifor's Mines, Metals and Mineral Industry Council and numerous regional councils. He has been involved recently with the development of the Consolidated Mining Standard Initiative as a sitting member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) representing labour.