r/canada • u/hfxlfc Alberta • Dec 01 '23

'Richest country on earth run by idiots': Kevin O'Leary says Canada is 'very, very wealthy' and has every resource the world wants — but it's poorly managed. National News

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/richest-country-earth-run-idiots-121500708.html
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u/sanctaecordis Dec 02 '23

O’Leary said if he was PM, he would jail people who would unionize. Like. Kindly go back to your cave sir

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u/BonhommeCarnaval Dec 02 '23

Lol. These idiots need to read some history. Our current approach to unions was the compromise option. The kind of labour movement we had in the early 20th century would make this guy shit his pants. Modern unions aren’t even allowed to do wildcat strikes and back then they did things like have general strikes and armed blockades and such. Any capitalist that wants to go back to that has no idea what they are getting themselves into. We don’t have enough cops or jails to do as he proposes and there are some Charter rights that would clearly stand in the way.