If you say something loud enough and often enough, people will believe it right?
That seems to be the hope of the union leadership currently doing battle with the Ford government in Ontario — denounce cuts to education and low wages and get the public on your side.
It’s time to give serious consideration to bringing about school choice in Ontario.
If the parents left scrambling by Friday’s illegal strike had real options in where their kids were educated, then perhaps there wouldn’t have been a strike.
Smashing teacher’s unions is a good start and Lord knows there are a multitude of reasons to free children from their deviant grasp but the reality is we are in a class war that demands all public service unions be defanged. They are partisan predators and a genuine threat to democracy.
PS. Poilievre sent out a fund raising email recently expressing their intent to defund the CBC. I like it but I don’t trust the CPC to follow through.
CUPE members picket at Ontario MPPs’ offices as indefinite education strike begins
TORONTO — Ontario education workers hit the picket lines Friday morning in the first day of an illegal strike as the education minister takes them to the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ were picketing at politicians’ offices, including hundreds outside the education minister’s constituency office in Vaughan, Ont., along with a large protest planned for the legislature, where hundreds of people were already gathered on the lawn.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override collective bargaining rights poses the same threat to democracy as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to override the rights of people protesting vaccine mandates.
Trudeau is guilty as charged but someone has to reign in the teachers & public service unions. Their collective greed impoverishes everyone else.
… Meanwhile, more than $500 million in overpayments were made to more than 100,000 employees, some dating back more than three years.
If the government doesn’t collect those overpayments soon, the auditor says, it may run out of time to use some recovery mechanisms because of legal limitations.
A pandemic-fuelled hiring spree has grown the federal civil service by more than 35,000 people since April 2020, according to a CBC News analysis, helping add billions to Ottawa’s payroll costs.
Figures supplied by the Treasury Board and other ministries and departments show the federal government added 19,151 jobs in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, and another 16,356 positions in fiscal 2022. All told, the feds now employ 335,957 people across the country: a 12 per cent increase from pre-COVID times, and the greatest number of public servants in Canadian history.
An additional 28,176 bureaucrats were on long-term leave in 2022, not receiving their full salaries, but many of whom remain eligible for taxpayer-funded top-ups, benefits, insurance and pension contributions.
OTTAWA – Federal workers are increasingly cynical, skeptical and disillusioned about the idea of reporting wrongdoing in the public service, says a recent survey.
That pessimism is more “palpable and widespread” now than it was before the pandemic, and bureaucrats have become more likely to fear reprisals for whistleblowing.
Research firm Phoenix Strategic Perspectives Inc. delivered the report in March to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, which investigates serious abuses within the federal government.
Just who exactly is a public service union whistleblower expected to tattle to? Canada’s public service unions and the Liberal government are in bed together. Trudeau feathers their nest and they watch his back and faithfully vote in return.
OTTAWA – Nearly 90 per cent of federal public sector executives, as well as thousands of other federal bureaucrats, went home with $190 million in total bonuses in 2021-2022.
The bonuses represent an 11 per cent jump from the previous year ($171 million), which coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One day late last year, Justin Trudeau took to twitter to tout his government’s job creation record.
“Thanks to your hard work and the hard work of Canadians across the country, Canada’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the start of the pandemic. In fact, more than 154,000 jobs were created last month — and … in the COVID-19 Era, more than 1 million jobs have been recovered,” he wrote in a tweet.
Justin has just added to his reliably Liberal vote bloc at our expense.
An internal audit by Veterans Affairs Canada suggests the federal government has all but lost control as it shells out hundreds of millions of dollars for veterans’ medical marijuana each year without proper oversight, direction or evidence of health benefits.
Quietly published this week, the audit’s results come amid an explosion in the number of veterans seeking reimbursement for their medical pot, from around 100 in 2014 to more than 18,000 last year — with no end to the surge in sight.
No one ever gets fired for being incompetent. I can see why these public servants merit a holiday Monday.
Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday for Queen’s funeral: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday and a day of mourning as Queen Elizabeth II is buried in the U.K.
“We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday. “There are still a few details to be worked out, but declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important.”
It seems the enormous compensation and job security advantages enjoyed by public sector employees aren’t enough
… Meanwhile, during COVID public-sector workers kept their jobs, added two years’ credit to their gilded pension benefits and even, many of them, received wage increases. Statistics Canada’s January 2022 Labour Force Survey found that all of the country’s 206,000 job losers were private-sector employees. Public-sector employment, on the other hand, was 305,000 higher than at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
Add in the Corporate Welfare Class, the State Media and the NGO’s and Not for Profits that rely on tax payer largesse and you have the landscape of the political class that keeps a dolt like Justin Trudeau in power.
It’s a good thing the Liberal government has admitted a mistake in doling out grants to something called the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC). But now the question becomes how broad of a problem are we dealing with here.
Anyone involved in approving implementation, managing, teaching or otherwise supporting the CRT/anti-racism scam in anyway within Canada’s public sector should be regarded as a vile racist like Marouf and immediately terminated.
At first glance, according to several commonly used indicators, Canada’s labour market has recovered from the initial COVID recession that began in 2020. Canada’s unemployment rate is now lower than when the pandemic hit, and the employment rate (the share of the adult population that’s working) has almost recovered to pre-COVID levels.
However, the story is more complicated than the headline numbers suggest. The latest monthly labour force statistics confirm that the government sector – not the private sector – has driven job growth since 2020.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals boast about Canada’s historically low unemployment rate of 4.9% as a sign of economic recovery from the pandemic, a new study by the Fraser Institute reports almost all of the gains have been in the public sector.
What happens when civil servants get partisan?
Non-partisanship is a principle of Canada’s public service. So when Ottawa civil servants cheered Trudeau’s arrival, they violated a basic principle of government
Trudeau is shoring up the base at our expense.
