John Robson: Unions Have No Business Supporting Anti-Israel Protests

Commentary Permit me to draw your attention to the curious incident of the public-sector unions in the campus protest. You may see nothing curious in Ontario government unions embracing Hamas because it’s the sort of radical extremist thing they always do. But to see the world clearly, we must preserve the capacity to be surprised at what does not surprise us. Frankly, I think we should be startled at the image of these unions preventing rapacious Dickensian governments from exploiting downtrodden bureaucrats. We all know state employees enjoy better average pay, far better job security, and lavish pensions, though they don’t seem very happy on average. But there’s something even weirder about organizations whose ostensible purpose is to protect Canada’s labour aristocracy as if they were the proletariat going about encouraging public servants to join pro-Hamas demonstrations....