The Air Canada strike wasn’t just a win for workers. It was also a wrench in Mark Carney’s plans
On Saturday morning, some 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants chose to exercise their constitutionally-enshrined right to strike and walked off the job. Only a few hours later, the federal government intervened to declare the action illegal and send the matter to binding arbitration. Both the Carney government and management at Air Canada, it seemed, assumed things would simply end there...