🇨🇦 Carney’s right to strike, until Ottawa says no

The sharpest tell is Patty Hajdu insisting nothing will limit the right to strike while Ottawa moves to give itself explicit power to end strikes and impose arbitration. That is not preserving a right. That is converting it into a temporary privilege, revocable by ministerial fiat whenever Bay Street, exporters, or the latest national emergency script gets nervous, as reported.

Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act sounds less like nation-building and more like investor reassurance packaged as public interest. Section 107 has existed since 1984, but Trudeau’s Liberals already turned a rarely used power into routine strike-breaking at railways, Vancouver and Montreal ports, and Air Canada in 2025. Now they want to codify the habit, dress it up with a special mediator, and call it stability. Translation: cabinet centralizes more control, labour rights become conditional, and Ottawa keeps proving that rules are sacred only until they inconvenience the regime’s preferred economic managers. Sovereignty starts at home, and this crowd governs like Canada is just a logistics platform.

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