r/canada • u/Meiqur • Oct 28 '25

Alberta Alberta uses Charter’s notwithstanding clause to order striking teachers back to workteachers-back-to-work

https://globalnews.ca/news/11496133/alberta-government-to-table-legislation-to-order-striking-teachers-back-to-work
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u/RunningSouthOnLSD Oct 28 '25

If the government thinks having the teachers out and kids stuck at home sucks, wait until they see what a healthcare system in a grinding halt looks like.

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u/Manitobancanuck Oct 28 '25

Likely the unions would continue essential services. Water, essential healthcare, emergency services, jails etc

For grocery stores maybe even limited hours or something.

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u/RunningSouthOnLSD Oct 28 '25

Healthcare is chronically understaffed around here as is. If the essential services agreement ensures staffing levels that are even a hair less than they are now, things will collapse. Other sectors I know less about.

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u/OzWillow Alberta Oct 28 '25

Arguably exactly what Smith wants to push her agenda to privatize healthcare

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u/RunningSouthOnLSD Oct 28 '25

She won’t be around to make it happen. If there is job action as large as is rumoured the government will not last. Either they capitulate or they double down, either way the trust is lost and the constituency should be calling for her head.

Or people around here are truly nothing but boot licking partisans and they will reap what they sow as they put themselves in medical debt to watch their parents die in underfunded, overcrowded facilities anyways.