Okay. Let me just take your analogy further.
Imagine the City of Hamilton needed balloons. Imagine, then, our balloon company was able to impose a legal monopoly on them so that they could buy balloons from nobody else.
That is precisely what has been imposed on Hamiltonian taxpayers by the system that you took a long time to describe. That would make for very expensive balloons. I'm afraid that for taxpayers the balloon has burst. They can't afford to pay any more.
Let me quote from Peter Shawn Taylor, the editor-at-large of Maclean's magazine:
The same union pulled the same trick on Hamilton in 2005: two workers
—two—
signed carpenters’ union cards and were thus able to impose a union agreement on the entire city forever. As a result, the pool of eligible bidders for construction contracts in Hamilton was reduced by over 90 per cent. Of the 260 firms that had previously bid on city jobs, city staff calculated that only 17 were affiliated with the carpenters union.
In other words, 90% of competition was banned, and every single worker in Hamilton who wanted to do government work in the carpentry field had to be part of this union because two people chose it.
Do you really believe that's a fair system of labour relations?