Harper sleeps on couch as bill debated

I am not a fan of filibustering but I'm not a fan of pension theft either. Harper's Postal legislation is not back to work legislation. It's pension theft legislation. The union didn't go on strike. Canada Post locked them out. That brought mail services to a grinding halt.

The union held token rotating 24 hours strikes that did not stop the flow of mail. The union offered to stop the rotating strikes if Canada Post agreed to reinstate employees medical coverage. Canada Post refused and locked them out. This is clearly a manufactured emergency ultimately designed to legislate theft.

What would happen if the House took their summer break without passing insanely worded back to work legislation? Well let's see... the union would go back to work as promised as long as Canada Post reinstated their medical coverage. Problem solved.

When the right wing says business needs less interference from government that is true. If Harper wasn't in collusion with Canada Post to aid and abet their pension theft, the free collective bargaining process would succeed. Instead, Harper has robbed that process by lying and creating a manufactured emergency.

Canada Post continues to make consistent profit. It's not a matter of balancing the budget or bringing Postal workers wages and benefits in line with couriers. It's about stealing pension and corporate greed which says profits are not enough we continue to want more and more profit. Then the final act of treason is to sell off that profit making public asset so they can break another union while they lose that tax revenue and increase consumer tax as a result. It is simply bad business.