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Originally Posted by curves2000
This absolute massive railway strike is coming on top of a whole host of other major, critical infrastructure work stoppages very recently. Port strikes, West Jet strike, Air Canada strike coming most likely, CBSA strike action, airports paralyzed recently due to staffing issues, security screeners strike action, Freedom conveys blocking critical infrastructure and more.
The government is allowing these businesses like Westjet to buy up competition like Sunwing, allowing it's competitors to fail by not promoting options, allowing private equity firms to allow buyouts of such companies with no strings attached.
Enough business leaders across Canada and enough trading partners across the globe are looking at Canada and lacking serious confidence in our ability to properly conduct business.
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Honestly man...I think you're kind of close, but not for the reasons you think.
If I had to guess, and mind you, this is purely a guess, I think our problem here remains inflation.
All of these places are Unionized and Unions operate on a fairly strict pay structure, and that structure isn't all that flexible.
So all of a sudden everything got really expensive, the cost of living is skyrocketing but these people are locked into their negotiated pay structures and their purchasing power is being diminished.
Costs go up, purchasing power goes down. Not a good place to be.
One thing is flexible and fluid and the other is not and that can cause problems.
And, while I have no love for the Liberals, some of it is their fault (over-spending, general theft, etc) a decent chunk of blame still resides with COVID.
So, in this case, the angry man shaking his fist at the clouds? He might not be wrong.