Canada

Yeah, very true. If we don't strike first. We'll never get to.

But we don't strike when Marlaina Smith's people gut healthcare and workers' rights, so what makes you think our unions will strike for this? Sometimes I feel they're impotent now.

Crushing labour is a key part of any growth plan. When they say "growth", they mean short term profits (line go up), not improvements in quality of life.

Skippy pretending to care about worker's rights. That'll be... fun. I imagine the Manning Centre's PR machine working overtime on another makeover right now. Brainstorming, "what do workers look like" and next time he steps out it'll be in overalls and a big straw hat, or an old school rail porter's uniform. It'll be up there with Harper's weird cowboy leather daddy moment.

It is depressing. Thinking about Carney's Davos speech where he referenced Havel's Power of the Powerless, taking the "workers of the world unite" sign out of the window. I didn't think he meant it literally.

PP will appear vindicated and he’ll campaign on “I told you the banker is a fake”

Which will get PP elected.

Liberals have rarely been pro-labour. While the Trudeau gov't did some positive welfare changes, it tipped the scales on many strikes for corpos. Chretien did austerity and bargaining freezes, etc. Pierre Trudeau also harmed labour in various ways.

The rampant use of Section 107 as a strike-breaking tool started under Trudeau's Liberal government.

Mulroney in a red tie.

The Cons are the old Reform and the Libs are the old Cons.

We knew that going into the election. I don’t know why Lib MPs aren’t crossing to the NDP but if any of their constituents voted for them thinking they weren’t the Cons then they should be contacting them to floor cross.

Never underestimate polyestre's dreams.

We didn't choose him because he was good for us.

We chose him because he was the least worse. It was a choice between the second-worst candidate and the worst.

Always remember that. And let's get a better candidate for next time, so we have someone we want to vote for.

People love him and he is super popular I imagine/hope because they'd rather scroll influencer infomercials and AI slop than inform themselves.

I agree with PP on one thing though. Crossing the floor should absolutely trigger a by-election. Who's to stop leaders from running candidates in every party. In fact I'm not so sure the NDP floor crosser wasn't a plant. NDP and Carney liberals are very far apart ideologicaly

When I think of Carney liberals I think of the harder government.

Hey at least we can still kill ourselves

That's a homegrown solution, MAID in Canada

Wouldn't that be the day? S'pretty tough to find people that dedicated to a union, and we got people in or out of the strike who think blocking roads makes you "look bad."

What's worse is this is exactly what PP would do anyways 🤣

Rail assoc suit was quoted explaining how things need to change because Canada appears unreliable for investment due to the strikes (on rail). Can't make it more obvious what the employer consultation is about.

And there better be a way to settle greivances for essential jobs or they quickly hollow out. If you don't, people don't train for them or pursue them, and we damn well know they aren't going to up the pay to make them more attractive.