The people of Ontario shudder when they hear those two words that Mr. Harris used to so often evoke, and now we're hearing them again.
What union members whom I know understand is that this is a party that proposes to emasculate the Canada Labour Code and workers' rights, and one can only rely on their own words.
In the Conservative Party's declaration—not the Progressive Conservative Party's, obviously—you have section 17(iv), that “supports right to work legislation to allow optional union membership including student unions”. That's very specific language. That says to me that the Conservatives under Mr. Poilievre, who was a boorish and vocal advocate for union-busting legislation in the past—the ones you talked about—would again return to this playbook of union-busting and of requiring unions to unilaterally disarm in front of employers, to cease advocating for social justice and, indeed, providing options so that workers would not have to join a union in unionized workplaces.
That would be a 100-year pullback on the accomplishments of the Canada Labour Code and other labour codes across this country. Unions are quite right to fear it.