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The Niagara Independent, April 21, 2023 \u2013<\/em> This week 155,000 federal public servants went out on strike for unrealistic wage increases and to further feather their nest of entitlements. For the many Canadians who are presently struggling through serious economic and standard of living challenges, the bureaucrats\u2019 strike is incredibly tone deaf and out-of-touch with reality. It is an alternative universe of rationale that we find in Ottawa, and it has evolved as a result of more than seven years of a Prime Minister and his government pushing its brand of progressivism.<\/p>\n The federal strike is but the latest symptom of the rot brought about by the Trudeau Liberals\u2019 progressivism, yet another disturbing indicator that something has gone very wrong in our country.<\/p>\n Given Canada\u2019s current economic climate, the federal workers\u2019 wage demands are unreasonable: a 13.5 per cent raise over three years and, for the 35,000 workers at Canada Revenue Agency, a hike of 30 per cent. The demands are also unreasonable when considering federal employees already receive a very sweet deal compared to the average pay of Johnny Canuck.<\/p>\n According to a recent Fraser Institute study, government workers today are paid 31.3 per cent higher compensation than private sector workers when factoring for bureaucrats\u2019 higher wages, pensions plans, and bevy of workplace benefits.<\/p>\n In addition to the generous salary increases being sought, the federal workers are calling for greater workplace benefits \u2013 and this is the rub with reality. Throughout the pandemic years, the federal public sector enjoyed job security, regular paychecks, home from work arrangements (until April 2023), and most received yearly wage increases with managers receiving guaranteed bonuses. With this strike, the union and its members are looking to secure the following measures:<\/p>\n The union is also expecting the government to establish an \u201cunconscious bias\u201d training program for all managers and employees to exorcise latent racism within the civil service. It is also calling for the government to establish a union-administered Social Justice Fund at a cost to government (a.k.a. taxpayers) of one cent for every hour worked by every union employee. With 155,000 union members in this particular union, this would cost the government $12,500 a day, roughly $4.5 million annually. There are no details provided on the mission of the Social Justice Fund.<\/p>\n These demands and entitlements may seem surreal for many Canadians, but they have come to be expected in Ottawa\u2019s alternative reality. From the PM on down through federal departments and agencies, there is an \u201cenlightened,\u201d progressive attitude in the Nation\u2019s Capital offering up endless examples of virtual signaling and baseless pronouncements that are nonsensical and insulting to any critical thinker.<\/p>\n Consider the following selection of recent conclusions made by Canada\u2019s senior bureaucrats:<\/p>\n Last week the country\u2019s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam issued a Public Health Office of Canada (PHO) report that identifies climate change as a pressing health issue. In the report the PHO declares white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and racism are the \u201csystemic drivers of negative health outcomes\u201d and that these overlap with the climate change challenges Canadians face. Therefore, the systemic drivers must be addressed in order to improve the health of Canadians.<\/p>\n Since this PHO garble was first revealed to the public by news source Blacklock\u2019s Reporter<\/i>, it has garnered attention in social media and with alternative news sources. Not surprisingly, legacy media has not reported on the PHO conclusions.<\/p>\n Perhaps even legacy media realized that Canadians outside the Ottawa bubble would find offense to its contents \u2013 unattributed quotes such as \u201cIt\u2019s really about the foundations of our society, the capitalist system, the culture of extraction, and we need to change that\u201d and \u201cif we don\u2019t address capitalism, if we don\u2019t address colonialism, racism, the patriarchy etcetera we are going to tread water for a long time until we eventually drown.\u201d<\/p>\n The PHO concludes that public health has a role in addressing climate change by contributing to Canada\u2019s decolonization, justice, and equity.<\/p>\n Dr. Tam\u2019s report is only the latest in a long list of outrageous reports and announcements from Ottawa.<\/p>\n This is all so remarkably appalling \u2013 one could not make this stuff up. Since 2015, it\u2019s been a degenerative progressivism that permeates Ottawa.<\/p>\n With the picket lines bringing federal services to a halt over a 30 per cent pay hike for the country\u2019s tax collectors, Canadians are now bearing witness to where this lunacy lands us.<\/p>\n Chris George<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is an Ottawa-based government affairs advisor and wordsmith, president of\u00a0CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>. Contact:\u00a0ChrisG.George@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n
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