🇨🇦 Only 300 rail signal workers can expose how brittle Canada has become

Close to 300 CPKC signal workers walk, and suddenly one company is assuring the country everything is fine, safe and efficient, trust us. That alone tells you how absurdly centralized and fragile critical infrastructure has become under the managerial genius of modern Canada. As reported, these are the people who install, maintain, test and repair signalling systems from Vancouver to Montreal. Tiny workforce, giant leverage, because we built a country that runs on narrow chokepoints and PR statements.

The union says retention is collapsing. CPKC says workers want double the raises and should accept binding arbitration. Translation: the usual Canadian elite formula, underinvest in core labour, then beg Ottawa-style process management to paper it over. This is what decades of Trudeau-era state-corporate rot produce: a nation where sovereign transportation arteries depend on skeletal staffing, imported growth fantasies, and bureaucratic damage control. When your rail backbone can be shaken by 300 specialized workers, the problem is not labour drama. The problem is a hollowed-out country run by people who think optics are infrastructure.

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