Air Canada's marketshare makes it highly unlikely to downright impossible that any government would allow a strike to go on. It's pretty much an essential service at this point.
If we had a significant amount of airlines like the U.S does, the effect of a strike by one carrier would not be as strongly felt and more likely be seen as tolerable.
I recognize worker's desire to use that leverage to improve their bargaining position, that's understandable. Sadly, in a country of monopolies/duopolies, service interruption has an outsized effect on the country which makes it intolerable in the government's eyes.
Personally, as someone scheduled to fly to another continent on AC in 2 weeks, I was not looking forward to having to shell out 2-3x to get on a milk run with another airline (I live in a city with less choices than a major city). If they striked as soon as I got back to Canada, obviously (selfishly) I would have no vested interest.
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