I would say it's largely because of the influence of what I call union-backed politicians, particularly at the city level. Unions like CUPE and others end up unduly influencing people's perspective on what to do, whether it's through money or through people who should be doing their job at the union office and are instead working on an election campaign, identifying voters, getting people out, doing the necessary workâand all of the think tanks funded with union dues and who don't comply with the Income Tax Act under the dues-not-deductible provision.
So that is one of the problems at the city level. I'm hoping that at the federal and provincial levels, where less of that is taking place, we can end this type of discrimination and these kinds of union leader biased policies that are no good for taxpayers and, frankly, not good for workers, unionized or union-free.