Unions warn Carney government is considering sweeping changes to labour law — including the right to strike

Gets a majority, first thing is attack labour. The Goldman Sachs is showing.

Interesting if he wants to promote trades while simultaneously stomping out workers rights. Perhaps he'll find out the hard way that those same people are a big part of his voter base.

But Canada’s Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said her government doesn’t have preconceived ideas about what the changes will be. Instead, the aim is to modernize the labour legislation that hasn’t "kept up with the times."

"It's no secret that the country is under immense stress," Hajdu told CBC News on Thursday, pointing to the economic threats Canadian industries face from the U.S. trade war and other global events. "And there's an urgency to making sure that we have the most modern tools available."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago school of economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism". In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively.

Carney is using the disaster that is the Trump presidency to subject us to Thatcherite reforms that he hopes we will be too distracted to resist cohesively.

Organize with the NDP folks. We have to fight back, no way but through.

Canada’s recent labour disputes in major transportation sectors have made it hard for businesses to plan operations at home and grow customers abroad, according to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

"What we're hearing overseas is that they need to have that degree of certainty from Canadians. They need to know that our ports aren't just going to shut down two years in a row seemingly at random," said Pascal Chan, the chamber's vice-president of strategy policy and supply chains.

"If other countries don't believe that Canada can reliably deliver the goods because we have consistent labour disruptions, that's going to be a significant problem for the economy."

Pretending as though "overseas" don't understand the concept of labour negotiations. It is already illegal to strike in Canada without years of for warning.

Sounds like Canada's only international business partner is MBS.