One set of rules for most Canadians, another set of rules for those connected to the government.
In a logical world, the government would be small and highly efficient. After all, each tax dollar taken away from Canadians isn’t taken by choice. We don’t get to choose whether we pay taxes or not. So, if you’re forcing someone to pay taxes, the least you can do is take as little as possible and spend it as efficiently as possible.
Of course, that’s not how it’s turned out.
Instead, the government takes way more than they need, and they spend it in an incredibly inefficient fashion.
The average federal public sector worker makes significantly more than the average private sector worker. They also get additional benefits compared to the private sector, all of which is paid for by our taxes.
This doesn’t make any sense. It has things entirely backwards.
The government is supposed to serve us, not the other way around. So why do the ‘public servants’ make more than those they supposedly work for?
Furthermore, given the rapid pace of technological advancement, the inefficiency of the public sector is completely unacceptable. Does anyone really believe that we couldn’t have a much more efficient public service at a lower cost?
I mention all of this to help explain how absurd it is that the federal public service is on strike.
People paid more than the average Canadian and who have much more generous work from home conditions than the average Canadian are striking to demand even more money from taxpayers and keep working from home. Now, this doesn’t apply to all federal public servants. Only about a third even voted in the strike vote, and many are certainly hardworking people who would rather be back at work.
Unfortunately, the common sense voices aren’t in control. Instead, the PSAC leadership continues to escalate the strike. And now, they’re blocking national infrastructure:
“Today, we escalated our strike actions across the country to ramp up the pressure on this government to reach a fair contract. And it’s clear they’re feeling the heat.
One day longer, one day stronger.”
Today, we escalated our strike actions across the country to ramp up the pressure on this government to reach a fair contract. And it’s clear they’re feeling the heat.
One day longer, one day stronger. pic.twitter.com/nDeJqEKp6F
— PSAC-AFPC (@psac_afpc) April 25, 2023
“We shut down the Port of Montreal and downtown boulevards, the Port of Vancouver and the Port of Saint John’s; we blockaded the Treasury Board office in Ottawa and other strategic locations from coast to coast.”
We shut down the Port of Montreal and downtown boulevards, the Port of Vancouver and the Port of Saint John’s; we blockaded the Treasury Board office in Ottawa and other strategic locations from coast to coast.
— PSAC-AFPC (@psac_afpc) April 25, 2023
When will Trudeau invoke the Emergencies Act?
PSAC is openly bragging about shutting down national infrastructure.
This will obviously have a cost to the Canadian economy.
The cost to the economy was a key ‘reason’ cited by the Liberals to invoke the Emergencies Act.
So why aren’t they talking about invoking it now?
Why is a PSAC strike for higher pay considered acceptable, while the Freedom Convoy protest for basic individual rights and freedoms wasn’t acceptable to the government?
We are seeing the massive double-standard. For most Canadians, the rules are harshly applied to us, and the government will even invoke brutal emergency powers to crush our desire for freedom.
But when it’s government workers, the government lets them blockade key infrastructure without any threat of invoking emergency powers.
Now, I obviously don’t think the Emergencies Act should be employed. It was authoritarian overreach when it was used against the Freedom Convoy, and it would be authoritarian overreach if it was used against PSAC, even though I have zero sympathy for the PSAC strike.
That said, it’s disgusting that it was used against the Freedom Convoy, and it’s disgusting that there is a biased double-standard against freedom loving Canadians.
Spencer Fernando
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