A bum

So, Jerry Dias, the ex-president of Unifor, had a "lapse in judgement" when he pocketed $50,000 to promote COVID test kits for one supplier.  A "lapse in judgement", Dias called it.  Really??!!  Jerry, you're a bum.

He claimed all the pills and booze he was downing for back pain, wink-wink-nudge-nudge, were the reason.  Every time I listened to him mouth off on TV about how hard-done-by his poor (read extremely well-paid members) were I smelled a lot of rats because, hey, there were a lot of rats to be smelled.

I know how high-off-the-hog union executives live.  Saw that personally about 35 years ago, when I was travelling with an EXPO '86 colleague across Canada to promote the fair.  Believe it or not, we were both young(ish) and (semi)gorgeous, prompting a very well-known, now deceased, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, let's call him "BW", and his side-kick to approach us in a bar in some city or other, asking us to be their guests and join their table.  As this wasn't our first rodeo, we knew what that meant, wink-wink-nudge-nudge again -- so we declined.  They, however, continued to live it up at the table beside us.

So, I am sure Jerry didn't need a tag day for his members or himself, but he decided to grab the $50K anyway.  Sadly, for him, another union executive with integrity blew the whistle and turned him in.  Do you think Jerry would have resigned had this guy not done so?  That was a rhetorical question.  Thanks to Jerry, many of us have now had our opinions about union "leaders" confirmed.  

As for unions, we needed them back in the days of child labour, but frankly, we don't need them now because they cause problems.  Here in Alberta, for example, some medical workers' gang is demanding a huge wage increase to "keep up with inflation".  Hey, buddy, huge wage increases cause inflation -- that and the incompetent fiscal and monetary policies of governments -- such as the one "leading" us at the moment.

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And how about the Liberals and the NDP hopping into bed together?!  Wasn't that a doozy, as my late mother would have deemed it.  Of course, it's all so Singh doesn't have to face another election, which would see the NDP decimated and his own seat lost.  Pension anyone?  Of course, they were never going to topple the Liberals even without a formal agreement.  But the agreement flies and spits in the face of a Parliamentary democracy -- which is what Trudeau wanted in the first place.  But to have an actual date set is unconscionable.  The governor general should have stepped in and tried to counsel against this.  Oh wait, I forgot, she's another Liberal toadie.  

The poor Conservatives.  They'll have to cool their heels and jets for three years!  Wonder how Charest likes that one.  My guess is he'll drop out long before.