Labour, Trump make strange bedfellows

RE: OUTRAGE WON’T FIND NEW JOBS FOR GM WORKERS (NOV. 29)

I read with interest your editorial of November 29.

In it you basically state that Unifor president Dias (and by inference PM Trudeau) are, indeed, pandering to their base, in essence unrealistically holding out hope for people when there is none. Of course in the editorial you condescendingly state that Dias is merely “doing his job.”

It strikes me how Canadian leftists rallying their base for political purposes is somehow noble, while Trump doing the very same thing on the American right is the epitome of evil.

Don’t get me wrong, as a “small c” conservative I detest Trump and everything he stands for, but a double standard has to be called out.

“Politics makes for strange bedfellows,” but the Canadian left allied with Trump has to take the cake.

But getting back to your editorial, after reading it I realized that I had already heard that exact line yesterday; emphasis on retraining the affected workers rather than a futile fight against a fait accompli.

The Spec has basically agreed with Premier Ford, that reality is a tough pill to swallow, but riling up the hoi polloi is nothing more than political grandstanding.

C’mon Spec, you can say you agree with Ford on this issue out loud ... but, of course, you’ll be threatened with subscription cancellations (mostly by people who aren’t even subscribers in the first place).

Michael Hewak