Originally Posted by BCFlyer
All through these proceedings your group has claimed that the junior pilots would not be negatively effected. I believe your original propoganda stated that the delay in advancement would only be 3-4 months. Now you are openly stating that "the impact on junior pilots is a given" What has changed?
What changed? Nothing, except your misinterpretation of my previous posts. Show me where I have stated that the junior pilots will not be negatively affected. On the contrary, since 2006 I have been strongly suggesting that the Association owed a duty to all of their members to negotiate a benefit for those who will be adversely affected. I have repeatedly stated that the change is not "fair." I have also repeatedly stated that it cannot be avoided, so those adversely affected should be protected by creating a positive incentive for senior pilots to want to leave early (for example, a reduction in the penalty for leaving early).
Earlier posts have mentioned several pilots that brought this same case before the courts in the past. Did you openly support them then? Did you bring all your legal expertise to the table and fight for them as hard as you are fighting now? Or did you just sit in the background and watch it unfold?
How could I have supported them in the 1990's if I didn't find out their complaints until I became involved in 2006, once I did some legal research? And how could I have supported them at that point in time, even if I did know about their Complaints, when the
Charter jurisprudence wasn't as clear as it is now with respect to Section 15(1) [equality rights]? I was the first person to ever file a Charter challenge to Section 15(1)(c) of the
Canadian Human Rights Act, and I did that largely as a result of the changing interpretation of Section 1 of the
Charter. But I wasn't the last one to file a challenge, and after the JR in November, it will likely all be moot anyway.
And what the heck difference does it make whether I supported them, anyway? Can you not get it through your head that my role here is irrelevant to the issue that you are facing--namely, the issue that you refuse to acknowledge? The change is upon us, and you and the rest of the pilots who are fighting this change are causing yourselves serious damage as a result of your short-sightedness and denial.
Maybe a special assessment for damages will finally get you to focus your mind on that issue. But likely only after you have drawn and quartered the messengers, of course.