Carney government eying curbs on right to strike, labour leaders warn

Hardly any public servants have the right to strike. It is a major reason why so many of their contracts have been below the cost of living.

Wait- the *Central Banker* is anti Labour?? Colour me shocked.  The guys who’s one instrument to correct the market is primarily designed to cause unemployment? The Bank of Canada very explicitly warned and actively corrected the labour market gains during the one time the working classes saw meaningful rises in prices for their labour during 2022-2023. 

Imo Carney would be more revolutionary and more deserving of his Carneymania if he actually talked about reforming central bank governance or not doing business as usual. What we got was special economic zones – Build Canada Act – (less regulations) and environmental law roll backs and now there should be little surprise of labour protections roll backs. At least “Silver Spoon Trudeau” earned some bona fides by raising taxes on the rich, adding luxury taxes and adding taxes to the selling of multiple homes, not to mention designing the carbon tax to be progressively redistributionary; all things rolled back by the New Liberals.  All during basically the worse jobs market in generations and a cost of living/housing crisis. 

Carney speedrunning into dumpster fire territory. He was so close to becoming a legend, and he sold out the voters the moment he took power. Sure, in hindsight we can say it was obvious this banker was going to do it, but he did a great job selling himself. I recall an interview where he stressed that rushing to apply the ‘free’ market onto problems doesn’t work and its not good policy, and all we see is privatization from him now.

The fact that he now is being vague about these latest policies, how he just suggests they’ll be ‘good for people’ but never says WHY or HOW. Its hard to trust the man selling off everything when he doesn’t say a word. I understood he would be swinging the liberals rightwards, but the short-sighted sell-offs of critical infrastructure, and his pathetic appeasement of a separatist UCP with backwards O&G ramp ups has turned me off completely.

He looks much better in foreign affairs than domestic. I’m appalled at how quickly he’ll sell our public assets when we should be nationalizing essentials like transit, telecom(ISPs especially), energy, and housing. The liberals and conservatives will do anything but tax their donors. I’m very glad the NDP has changed course with not only Lewis but their exec council. Much different approach to campaigning and messaging.

PS – Don’t bother with kneejerk NDP dismissal posts, I won’t be reading them.

I am in fact saying “let’s pay attention and see where this leads so we can fight it sanely instead of overreacting to a discussion paper and going off half cocked before anything has materialized.”