🇨🇦 Ottawa broke its own strike weapon

For the third summer in a row, Ottawa is watching airline chaos melt down peak travel season, and the funniest part is that the Liberals may have already wrecked their favourite emergency button. Section 107 has been used 10 times since 2023, a handy little federal override to crush labour disruptions when the political class gets nervous. But after Air Canada flight attendants openly defied last year’s arbitration order, even union bosses declared the trick basically dead, as reported.

So now Patty Hajdu is reciting the usual strongest deals happen at the table sermon while Canadians eat cancellations at Pearson and WestJet passengers get stranded on a busy long weekend. This is Trudeau-era governance in one frame: overregulated, overcentralized, permanently improvising, and somehow still unable to keep basic national infrastructure functioning. Ottawa muscles into every dispute until nobody respects the process, then pretends restraint is principle. A sovereign country would treat transport reliability as a strategic priority, not a seasonal hostage drama managed by exhausted bureaucrats and hollow talking points.

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