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Labour Minister Christina Gray has cast her eyes across the country and found Alberta falling far behind other provinces on workplace rules.

The government’s consultation period on those rules ends Tuesday and Gray will review the submissions with an eye toward modernizing the employment standards code and creating “family friendly workplaces,” which has been a familiar refrain from the government.

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Anyone with a passion for movies from the eighties will be thrilled by the debate around the government’s review of the rules.

Those standards haven’t been updated since 1988, when theatres were showing Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Big and “the Christmas classic Die Hard,” said Gray.

It was also the year of the Calgary Winter Olympics, which Gray has repeatedly pointed out to media during news conferences and to the Opposition during question period. It’s part of a deliberate strategy to use pop culture to show voters why the government is tackling this now, when the economy is still sputtering.