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I recently wrote about Ontario teachers’ and their unions’ seeming inability to quietly keep their heads down while counting their many blessings rather than holding taxpayers and parents hostage to even higher wages and benefits, unjustified in the marketplace.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is taking a similar tack in launching an anti-Harper advertising campaign criticizing cuts to federal government services. They claim that these attack ads are aimed at raising awareness of what these cuts “really mean to Canadians” says PSAC national executive vice-president, Chris Aylward.

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Early reactions to the global oil price war were that business as usual would return before too long to Alberta’s oilsands. Six months later it’s not looking that way any longer.





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There is at least one problem. PSAC does not represent “Canadians.” Rather, they represent a class of public sector workers who, like teachers, earn disproportionately high wages and benefits and dramatically heightened job security compared with the vast majority of Canadians, including equal or higher skilled ones, who are ostensibly their employers.