Since the 1900s, the coming together of workers in a powerful way in order to demand greater rights has been seen as a positive thing by “the Left.” This includes the right to work, as reflected in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “to pursue the gaining of a livelihood…” The Dominion Labor Party, United Farmers of Alberta, Progressive, CCF, and the NDP all supported powerful unions along with strikes and protests.
Farmer-Labour parties supported the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919  where a number of people died.
The CCF supported the On-to-Ottawa Trek characterized by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett as “not a mere uprising against law and order but a definite revolutionary effort on the part of a group of men to usurp authority and destroy government.”  Bennett met with eight trek leaders when they came to Ottawa, though they weren’t offered seats….