Poilievre Says High Inflation Prompted Railway Shutdown, Other Strikes

Published on August 30, 2024

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says high inflation is to blame for the recent national railway strike. More than 9,000 railway employees were ordered back to work at the beginning of this week after the Liberal government asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to impose binding arbitration on the railways and the union representing their employees. “The reason that we have these strikes is because of inflation,” Poilievre said during an Aug. 29 press conference. “Inflation leads to strikes because workers and unions have to fight to get back what they lost in purchasing power. Well, how did the inflation happen? The government doubled the debt.”...

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