Juno News - February 08, 2019Canada's largest union supports socialism
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Summary
Canadian Public Sector Unions have declared war on Justin Trudeau and you won t believe it. Over what issue? Is it about their pay, their vacation days, or Venezuela? Nope, it s over Venezuela. Just when the liberal government gets something right, the public sector workers, some of the leading progressive voices in our country turn on him.
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Canadian public sector unions have declared war on Justin Trudeau and you won't believe over what
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issue? Is it about their pay? Is it about their vacation days? Nope, it's over Venezuela. Just
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when the liberal government gets something right, the public sector workers, some of the leading
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progressive voices in our country, leading progressive activists, they turn on him.
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Trudeau generally hasn't found a left-wing cause that he doesn't like, and we know that he said that
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soft eulogy for Fidel Castro. We know he said that he admires China's basic dictatorship, but apparently
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the awful legacy of Hugo Chavez that has been continued by the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela
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is just too much for the liberal government. And Christia Freeland has shown real leadership on the
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file. She has made some strong remarks on it, and she was co-host to the Lima Conference. Those are
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foreign affairs ministers from North and South America talking about how to get Maduro out.
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Today, we have been joined by our Lima Group partners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
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Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia.
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This isn't some CIA coup. These are the neighboring countries beside Venezuela who say,
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we gotta get this guy out, and the many, many thousands of people who are taking to the streets
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to protest his authoritarian rule. What's the problem? Sounds like democracy in action,
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people finally trying to get a dictator out who did elections last year that are deemed fraudulent.
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This new guy's gonna come in, and he will be tasked with calling elections to authenticate his
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rule or to bring in another leader. But guess what? Our major public service unions,
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they won't stand for this. CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, represents hundreds of
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thousands of people, and they are throwing down the gauntlet for Justin Trudeau. You will not believe
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some of the things that they have said. Saying Maduro was duly elected by the president of Venezuela,
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by the people of Venezuela, pardon me. Saying it rejects any attempt by the Canadian government
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to interfere with the democratic processes and sovereignty of the Venezuelan people. Given the
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history of U.S. involvement in the region, the actions of Guaido have all the signs of a coup d'etat.
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We warn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau against playing any role in bringing about regime change in another
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country. Wow. And they're backed up by some other unions, like the Canadian Labour Congress,
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and also the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Yep, the posties, the same ones who use their
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members' money to go to conferences in Venezuela where they sing the praises of socialism. It's
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unbelievable that there's a leftist cause that is just too much for Justin Trudeau, and yet our unions
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are jumping into them. I'm going to wager that the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers who are
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part of these unions, they actually don't support Nicolas Maduro and the legacy of Hugo Chavez.
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I'm going to bet that they're actually outraged to see that their money is being spent to endorse
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this sort of stuff. Well, they should speak up, and they should say they're not going to tolerate it