Several criticize the trade unions for timidly encouraging their members to vaccinate or respect health measures.
This discretion is explained by their legal obligation to defend all their members. They want to avoid having their public statements opposed in a dispute before a court.
However, the demonstrations in Ottawa and Quebec demand that they come out of their discretion and position themselves in relation to them.
The major organizations of civil society, such as trade unions, must contribute to the elevation of the debate, thus preventing frustrations from making people forget about security for all.
I hope that they display their reservations with regard to these convoys which claim to support freedom. Even more, that they denounce the democratic drifts contiguous to these demonstrations.
“Weathered Chu”
Disgust is everyone’s lot after two years of the pandemic. The haste to get out of the state of emergency, confinement and other sanitary measures is justified.
This weariness should not lead to recklessness or irrationality in matters of health.
It is absurd to find people who doubt the pandemic and who deny the existence of COVID-19.
It is even more worrying to see sensible people being fooled by these Holocaust deniers who feed on the Trump source.
Despite some inconsistencies in government decisions, we must recognize that they are based on scientific and political foundations where the safety of all takes precedence over individual rights.
Freedom
I like the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity.
Freedom is exercised within a framework of values and I do not believe that the radicals who parasitized the convoys of truckers subscribe to these values.
On the contrary, the messages of some, taken up by ultra-right politicians, turn out to be rather maddening.
The central trade unions in search of a just society would show laxity by remaining silent!