Alberta has just veered off the cliff into full-on authoritarianism, stripping workers of fundamental rights, it is an inflection point for our country, but it isn’t sudden… this is the dark heart of the “new conservative” movement.
This movement is absolutely at its core a supremacist movement, one that supports “rights for me but not for thee”.
As the waves of labour action ripple out beyond Alberta teachers and past the boundaries of the province, you will be told this isn’t your fight, it’s a local matter; sit down and shut up.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a beautiful expression of one vision of what Canada can and should be, and they simply don’t want that vision.
This is a national issue and there are no neat legal solutions to this that can be done by others: instead changing this path for Canada will require people in the streets at numbers we haven’t seen in generations.