One of the never-ending narratives is that the Ontario government is cutting education funding. But is it true?
Not by any measurable standard, be it money or staffing levels.
Canada’s Public Service Union Predator Class
CUPE, Ontario government reach deal; strike called off
A school strike has been averted in Ontario as education workers and the government reached a tentative agreement late Sunday afternoon.
The agreement comes after a weekend of intensive negotiations between the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the province.
Few details have been released about what is included in the tentative agreement; however CUPE has previously said the government had come to the table with a 3.59 per cent wage increase for workers.
Predatory Unions planned insurrection to counter Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause
Unions planned nationwide protests to counter Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause
Before Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced he would rescind his use of the notwithstanding clause to ban an education union from striking, labour leaders discussed a potential nationwide protest that would have temporarily shut down not just the province’s auto plants, but the country’s ports and even the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island.
In the end, the full-scale show of force never happened. It was called off last Monday after Mr. Ford and his Education Minister, Stephen Lecce, decided they would back down.
Sounds like an insurrection to me.
Doug Ford turtles … offers to stop use of notwithstanding clause if union members return to school
Premier Doug Ford said he is willing to rescind the legislation that made the Ontario education workers’ strike illegal if their union is willing to stop their mass walkout.
“As a gesture of good faith our government is willing to rescind the legislation, are willing to rescind section 33, but only if CUPE agrees to show a similar gesture of good faith by stopping their strike, and letting our kids back into their classrooms,” Ford said Monday morning.
Public service unions are going to have to be smashed one day, just not under Ford’s tenure.
Facts don’t back up school union claims on wages or cuts to education
If you say something loud enough and often enough, people will believe it right?
That seems to be the hope of the union leadership currently doing battle with the Ford government in Ontario — denounce cuts to education and low wages and get the public on your side.
Strike shows it’s time to consider school choice and vouchers
It’s time to give serious consideration to bringing about school choice in Ontario.
If the parents left scrambling by Friday’s illegal strike had real options in where their kids were educated, then perhaps there wouldn’t have been a strike.
Smashing teacher’s unions is a good start and Lord knows there are a multitude of reasons to free children from their deviant grasp but the reality is we are in a class war that demands all public service unions be defanged. They are partisan predators and a genuine threat to democracy.
PS. Poilievre sent out a fund raising email recently expressing their intent to defund the CBC. I like it but I don’t trust the CPC to follow through.
CUPE members picket at Ontario MPPs’ offices as indefinite education strike begins
CUPE members picket at Ontario MPPs’ offices as indefinite education strike begins
TORONTO — Ontario education workers hit the picket lines Friday morning in the first day of an illegal strike as the education minister takes them to the Ontario Labour Relations Board.
Education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ were picketing at politicians’ offices, including hundreds outside the education minister’s constituency office in Vaughan, Ont., along with a large protest planned for the legislature, where hundreds of people were already gathered on the lawn.
GOLDSTEIN: Ford and Trudeau are eroding our democratic rights
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override collective bargaining rights poses the same threat to democracy as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to override the rights of people protesting vaccine mandates.
Trudeau is guilty as charged but someone has to reign in the teachers & public service unions. Their collective greed impoverishes everyone else.
Auditor General Says $500M in Overpayments to Civil Servants Needs to Be Collected before time runs out
… Meanwhile, more than $500 million in overpayments were made to more than 100,000 employees, some dating back more than three years.
If the government doesn’t collect those overpayments soon, the auditor says, it may run out of time to use some recovery mechanisms because of legal limitations.
Trudeau’s pandemic hiring boom adds billions to federal payroll & shores up predatory public service union electoral support for Liberal party
A pandemic-fuelled hiring spree has grown the federal civil service by more than 35,000 people since April 2020, according to a CBC News analysis, helping add billions to Ottawa’s payroll costs.
Figures supplied by the Treasury Board and other ministries and departments show the federal government added 19,151 jobs in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, and another 16,356 positions in fiscal 2022. All told, the feds now employ 335,957 people across the country: a 12 per cent increase from pre-COVID times, and the greatest number of public servants in Canadian history.
An additional 28,176 bureaucrats were on long-term leave in 2022, not receiving their full salaries, but many of whom remain eligible for taxpayer-funded top-ups, benefits, insurance and pension contributions.
Jaded, cynical, disillusioned: report says federal whistleblowers fear reprisal
OTTAWA – Federal workers are increasingly cynical, skeptical and disillusioned about the idea of reporting wrongdoing in the public service, says a recent survey.
That pessimism is more “palpable and widespread” now than it was before the pandemic, and bureaucrats have become more likely to fear reprisals for whistleblowing.
Research firm Phoenix Strategic Perspectives Inc. delivered the report in March to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, which investigates serious abuses within the federal government.
Just who exactly is a public service union whistleblower expected to tattle to? Canada’s public service unions and the Liberal government are in bed together. Trudeau feathers their nest and they watch his back and faithfully vote in return.
‘Completely unjustifiable’: Feds paid out $191 million in bonuses to public servants
OTTAWA – Nearly 90 per cent of federal public sector executives, as well as thousands of other federal bureaucrats, went home with $190 million in total bonuses in 2021-2022.
The bonuses represent an 11 per cent jump from the previous year ($171 million), which coincided with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Howard Levitt: Public sector jobs boom is a shell game that plays havoc with our economic future
One day late last year, Justin Trudeau took to twitter to tout his government’s job creation record.
“Thanks to your hard work and the hard work of Canadians across the country, Canada’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the start of the pandemic. In fact, more than 154,000 jobs were created last month — and … in the COVID-19 Era, more than 1 million jobs have been recovered,” he wrote in a tweet.
Justin has just added to his reliably Liberal vote bloc at our expense.
Ottawa has lost control of $150M program for reimbursing veterans’ cannabis: audit
An internal audit by Veterans Affairs Canada suggests the federal government has all but lost control as it shells out hundreds of millions of dollars for veterans’ medical marijuana each year without proper oversight, direction or evidence of health benefits.
Quietly published this week, the audit’s results come amid an explosion in the number of veterans seeking reimbursement for their medical pot, from around 100 in 2014 to more than 18,000 last year — with no end to the surge in sight.
No one ever gets fired for being incompetent. I can see why these public servants merit a holiday Monday.
Trudeau gives his allies in Canada’s predatory federal public service unions the day off to mourn Queen
Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday for Queen’s funeral: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday and a day of mourning as Queen Elizabeth II is buried in the U.K.
“We will be working with the provinces and the territories to try and see that we’re aligned on this,” Trudeau said at a news conference in New Brunswick Tuesday. “There are still a few details to be worked out, but declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important.”