For those of you not directly affected by this change at Air Canada, may I apologize on behalf of my former associates who apparently cannot understand that the laws of Parliament supercede the laws of the collective agreement, that this change cannot be avoided, and that they have a fundamental choice about how to deal with it.
Instead of embracing the unavoidable change and working to minimize, through negotiation, the obvious adverse consequences to those most adversely affected, they choose to discard their otherwise reasoned professionalism and degenerate this discussion into ad hominem attacks, while still pursuing their futile fight against the inevitable.
The entire aviation world has re-examined the age 60 restrictions, the Parliament of Canada has outlawed the use of age-based criteria for employment, and these individuals focus exclusively on slaying the messenger.
Can't wait to get back in the flight deck with them!