The Liberal government is in a weak position when it comes to championing thrift. It has never seen a dollar it didn’t want to spend.
The government is offering nine per cent over three years, so the sides aren’t miles apart. The matter is complicated by the fact that the union contract expired in 2021. This contract is primarily about covering past inflation, not speculating on future inflation. The government wants to pay only 1.5 per cent for 2021, a year of low inflation, followed by 4.5 per cent for last year and three per cent for this year.
The union isn’t asking for the moon, but Canadians have to put up with a public service strike. It’s difficult to see an issue or a gap that justifies a strike, but the union wanted to bring slow-moving negotiations to a head.Article content To make things even more challenging for the government, the prime minister had to defend his latest Caribbean vacation freebee in the House on the eve of the strike. Not a good look, as people like to say.Article content
The government can’t credibly claim that the raise the PSAC workers want is unaffordable. Inflation has helped create a tax windfall worth tens of billions of dollars, but the government had other priorities for the money.
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