With the prospect that the Conservatives could lose this federal election and be replaced by a left-wing NDP government, it is important to start considering the legal changes that should be made to better protect Canadian workers.
Liberal Senators say Bill C-377 is 'one of the worst bills we've ever seen' and have pledged to sit through the summer to try and defeat or delay it. Conservative Senator Hugh Segal has called the private member's bill targeting unions 'immature, ill-conceived and small-minded'. And yet Harper's Conservatives gave the bill its full support, forcing it through the House of Commons and threatening Senators who don't vote for it.
Labour, organized into politically active and democratic unions, is essential to the support for all other social justice movements. It is why the Conservative activists in Canada and around the world are so hostile to them. No matter what nonsensical reason right-wingers put forward, their main reason to attack unions is to undermine the most powerful opposition to their regressive agenda.
