This sickness started back in 1937 when the Canadian Government passed over the original Canadian aviation pioneers and brought in an American to run the new TCA. The poison then became part of the CP culture; surprisingly it never was part of the AC culture. It was quite a shock to the AC group when the CDN group came out with their “Better dead then Red” slogan especially as a large number of us originated from Western Canada. AC should never have bought CDN but was forced to by the Liberal Government of the day with so many ominous conditions applied that it eventually led to AC filing for CCAA.
What our fearless AC leader didn’t realize was the huge problem that would occur when he tried to merge the very poisonous CDN culture with that of AC. I could understand the hatred if the CDN folks had been placed at the bottom of our seniority list as was the norm but that wasn’t the case. In all the CDN employees won the jackpot getting trained on modern equipment with a huge pay increases and job security meanwhile the AC folks were being down graded. But that still doesn’t appear to be enough as their intent is to destroy AC from with in. The Vancouver base and their LEC is a company within themselves daring AC management to try and discipline pilots for wrong doings. It’s amazing that AC management lacks the balls to correct the situation by just downsizing the base as that precedence has already been set in the past...
I believe the poisonous posts by the CDN folks speak for themselves..