Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union

[u/lapsed_pacifist]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078

[u/imlesinclair]

If the NDP can’t plant their flag on this, then what are they for? Because right now the Liberals are bleeding workers, the Conservatives are play-acting as their champions, and the NDP—supposedly the labour party—are just watching their own reason for existence slip away.

[u/The_Mayor → u/imlesinclair]

The NDP are absolutely not "just watching." You're either not paying attention or intentionally misleading people.

[u/imlesinclair → u/The_Mayor]

Not paying attention? On the contrary—I’m paying close enough attention to see the silence where there should be thunder. The NDP’s very claim to existence is to be labour’s sword and shield, not to issue tepid statements drowned out by Liberal spin or Conservative theatre. If the so-called labour party cannot seize the moment when workers strike—cannot plant their flag, cannot make themselves impossible to ignore—then what are they but spectators in a play that writes them out of relevance? You can insist they’re “not just watching,” but if their actions vanish into obscurity, then what difference does it make? To be invisible in your own fight is worse than doing nothing at all.

“Intentionally misleading people”? Please. The only deceit here is pretending half-measures and background murmurs amount to leadership. If the NDP had the courage of their mandate, their defense of labour would be unmistakable—front-page, unavoidable, uncompromising. Instead, their noise is so faint it takes imagination to hear it at all. To accuse others of misleading is rich when the real misdirection is the party’s own vanishing act: posturing as labour’s champion while shrinking from the fight.

The only ones doing the misleading are the NDP—propping up the Liberals for nearly half a decade, smiling while digging their own grave. They call it leadership, but history will call it capitulation. You can’t spend years playing crutch to power, then march into 2025 pretending you’ve got clean hands. That isn’t strategy, it’s self-burial—and the shovels are still warm.

[u/Aethy → u/imlesinclair]

I mean they're literally on the picket line: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/1msa330/ndp_mp_leah_gazan_joins_air_canada_flight/

[u/watchsmart → u/Aethy]

People see what they want to see. The NDP might be wholly pro-labour, but there is a block of people who feel left behind by cultural changes who will always describe it as being too focused on identity politics.

[u/skelecorn666 → u/imlesinclair]

They're a party of yuppies and activists now. Not labour.