00:35:19.500His name is Fred Hahn, and he is one of these pro-Palestinian guys.
00:35:25.180Even though he's also the vice president.
00:35:28.280of cupy in ontario he posts anti-semitic videos of himself all the time and so the union cupy is
00:35:40.440asking him to step down they've lost confidence in national vice president fred haunt they're
00:35:45.640well actually they're demanding his resignation after he posted a video denounced as anti-semitic
00:35:50.840he said we've given him pretty strong direction cupy national president mark hancock told the star
00:35:55.400in an interview yesterday, a day after the union's executive board met over the growing
00:36:00.440controversy surrounding Han. So Han is high up. He's the national VP and the president of QP Ontario,
00:36:08.520but he's not the highest. This guy here, QP national president Mark Hancock is. I don't know
00:36:15.380if he has the power to fire Han directly, though. They're giving him strong direction, they say.
00:36:21.280han was re-elected earlier this year in a separate but related role as president of the
00:36:26.120union's ontario wing which also faces a human rights complaint filed last november in the wake
00:36:30.800of the august october 7th hamas attack on israel and the subsequent attack by israel in gaza that's
00:36:36.740killed more than 40 000 palestinians the complaint alleges systemic discrimination and promotion of
00:36:41.940anti-semitism that isolates jewish members of the massive public sector union there he is there with
00:36:48.680all of his rainbows in the background. Hopefully Fred Hahn will soon be gone. Fred Hahn could soon
00:36:56.260be gone. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. This is an interesting tweet that I picked up earlier
00:37:01.700today from Sarah Wahidi. As we talk about Palestinians, Afghanistan is not a Palestinian
00:37:11.880nation, but it's a Muslim nation. And as of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan,0.90
00:37:21.040according to the Taliban supreme leader. Have a look at this. Have a look at this. The following
00:37:26.200rules are now in effect. The full face must be covered, no hands, nothing visible. The black
00:37:31.520veil was presented as a recommendation a year ago, and now it is law. That is going on in Afghanistan0.99
00:37:37.980from the taliban's supreme leader so that's what you get when you get a wackadoo fundamentalist0.64
00:37:45.360islam leader in a middle eastern country and that is what the college kids in the united
00:37:52.980states the university kids in canada are promoting0.55
00:37:56.420if those kids who some are gay some are trans they claim went over there to afghanistan and
00:38:10.280tried to dress the way they do here what do you think would happen to them there0.89
00:38:14.600it would not be pretty it's possible we could have another work stoppage next month this time
00:38:22.240you won't be able to fly, at least not on Air Canada, because you can't fly a plane
00:38:27.200if you don't have a pilot. And Air Canada pilots have authorized a strike for as soon as September.
00:38:33.720They voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike mandate, putting them in a position to walk off
00:38:37.740the job as early as September 17th. The Airline Pilots Association, representing more than
00:38:42.0805,400 aviators at the country's largest carrier, said the vote was passed with 98% support today.
00:38:49.560The employees have been negotiating with Air Canada since June of last year, not this year, with ongoing talks in Toronto hotels overseen by a federal conciliator.
00:38:59.240That process is slated to wrap up this Monday following a 21-day cooling-off period, leaving September 17th as the soonest possible strike date.
00:39:08.800Charlene Hoodie, head of the union's Air Canada contingent, said the vote sends a clear message to management that pilots are willing to take job action to secure a better deal.
00:39:17.960it's stale it's an outdated contract she said in a phone interview there are now elements of our
00:39:22.860collective agreement in place that stem back to just post bankruptcy the airline filed for
00:39:28.120bankruptcy protection in 2003 so it's quite possible if this rail stoppage continues i
00:39:36.200almost said strike rail stoppage continues into september and and i doubt it will because there
00:39:43.320will be too much pressure on the trudeau government to stop this when people start going short
00:39:48.740when you can't buy a can of beans at your superstore your safeway they are going to be
00:39:55.060putting pressure on the government to stop it and right now trudeau says we're doing everything we
00:40:00.460can we've got the minister of employment on it um but they're not forcing back to work legislation
00:40:08.000at least not yet and to do that they have to call the house back to session for an emergency session
00:40:14.980and i'm sure all of the mps would not happily but they'd go back and vote on this it's kind of
00:40:21.280important um so let's just say we've got this this thing going on for a couple more weeks and
00:40:28.320as experts are saying we're going to feel the effects of it a couple at least a couple three
00:40:32.440more weeks after the rail stoppage ends then we can't fly well you can fly on west jet i suppose
00:40:41.820but good luck getting a flight if air canada's not flying and some of the other smaller airlines
00:40:49.700don't fly to where you want to go i mean what are you going to do you're going to take a train oh
00:40:53.580wait you can't take a train you're going to drive maybe and maybe the price of gas because there's
00:41:01.440no gas available anywhere could be anywhere between what three and five dollars a liter