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Originally Posted by Monahammer
It will be most interesting to see if the social conservative base can be married to the union-workers rights voters successfully. I think they can be, especially if you stick closer to centre on both groups voting issues.
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I doubt this specific legislation is going to move the needle much if at all for the anti-union crowd. Outside of maybe federally regulated trucking industry employees who are unionized this legislation won’t change much since the other federally regulated employers, whether they be government agencies(service Canada, CRA, etc), commercial airlines, rail, etc.. don’t have the means to continue even partial operations by using replacement workers.
This legislation is more symbolic than anything else, though I still think it’s a good law to pass. The majority of Canadian employees work for provincially regulated employers who won’t be subject to this change. BC and Quebec are the only provinces that have anti-scab legislation at the provincial level, although Manitoba is in the early stages of trying to implement it there as well. Ontario had their anti-scab legislation repealed but right now there’s a lot of pressure being put on Ford(who is also trying to come off as more pro-worker) to bring it back.