1. Forced retirement based on age is age discrimination.
2. Age discrimination in Canada is illegal.
Those two simple facts are indisputable because for years now courts, various levels of government and the CHRT have said so.
The arguments put forth by many of our pilots defending discrimination are a severe embarrassment, as they scream out to the public that we are unable to adapt to changing social attitudes and are incapable of recognizing that laws apply to us. We might as well put "Whites only" labels on our flightbags instead of "Maximum 60". Stop thinking about your poor little old self and open your bloody eyes to what's going on around you....
ACPA's continued actions on this issue leave me completely at a loss to explain. They are on a path of self-destruction that is doing incalculable damage to the pilots they are supposed to represent.