Opposition MPs criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during question period on April 19 for failing to negotiate a deal with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) to prevent 155,000 federal workers from striking.
“It is a failure to increase the cost of the bureaucracy by 50 percent with poor services. It is a failure to have 150,000 people workers go on the biggest general strike in decades. It is an especially incredible achievement of incompetence to do both of those things at the same time,” said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
The federal public servants went on strike after the federal government and PSAC failed to reach a deal before an April 18 evening deadline. On April 19, over 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) workers and 120,000 Treasury Board workers set up picket lines at more than 250 locations across Canada….