Last week, Canadian civil servants voted to strike when the government did not accede to their demand for a 13.5 per cent wage increase over three years, along with eliminating the pesky need to leave their homes to go work.
Let us, for the moment, put aside the fact that most Canadians wouldn’t even dream about that type of pay increase. Let us also ignore the reality that asking an employee to go to the office is quite a normal request. Let us say that the stated demands could be reasonable, under one simple condition: competence.
