When federal public service unions recently threatened a summer of discontent(opens in a new tab), it would have been easy pickings for Justin Trudeau to clear his throat and deliver a heartfelt “fuddle duddle(opens in a new tab)” for and on behalf of hard-pressed Canadian voters.
It wasn’t to be.
Having recently signed generous collective agreements with the major public sector unions, one could have expected Trudeau’s Liberal government to be given a bit of a break, but just the opposite happened.
