RE:RE:Bloomberg news on AC and More Foolish Nonsense on this board The NDP-backed coalition was a deterrent on Government intervention. Maintaining NDP support made intervention less likely - not more. The coalition nearly broke during the rail strike and a looming AC strike may very well be factoring into Singh's decision to break with Trudeau now.
Remember that the Government does not have to go through the House of Commons to end a strike. They can appeal to CIRB directly (as they did last month). No votes required. And Trudeau is now facing the potential for a surprise election and the country overwhelmingly favors a Conservative government. The last thing he wants is a massive labor strike in a high paid industry that disrupts the bulk of air travel in Canada.
The odds that the Government would've intervened within hours or days of a strike was already high. Today's events make it a near certainty and may even raise the odds that the feds intervene beforehand.