Well, this is from the website:
quote:
But the Supreme Court of Canada will not hear Wal-Mart's challenges of the power of the provincial labour board and the right of workers to the protection of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when they want to form a union.
Maybe the CLC thinks that because this involves Charter rights, it's somehow an issue of Canadian values. Of course, since Canada has only had a Charter for about 22 years of its existence, the Charter's claim to being a Canadian value is somewhat debatable.
Probably the CLC spokesman just threw in "Canadian values" because it sounds good, in an "apple pie and motherhood" sort of a way. And I agree, that kind of appeal to patriotism is always annoying. Wal-Mart shouldn't be allowed to treat its workers in a shitty fashion. Agreed, but why is this specifically a Canadian value? And what about unions that take on Wal-Mart in other countries? Are they also fighting for Canadian values?
[ 02 January 2006: Message edited by: voice of the damned ]
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