Let's pretend for a few minutes that no Air Canada pilots were challenging mandatory retirement or ever will.
What we are left with are the other employee groups at Air Canada filing their own complaints that ACPA has no control over. We are left with the approximately 840,000 other federally regulated employees in thousands of organizations, many of whom have filed or will file their own complaints into the indefinitely foreseeable future, which ACPA also has no control over. We have pensions under extreme pressure in this country because of greatly increased lifespans and a growing elderly demographic that must be supported by fewer workers. We have mandatory retirement already abolished in every provincial and territorial jurisdiction in Canada. And we have a federal government well along the process of doing the same with the unanimous support of every single Member of Parliament regardless of their political affiliation.
Hmmm.
Since no Air Canada pilots are challenging mandatory retirement in this fictitious world there is no one in our group for the others to hate and spend all their time and energy vilifying. So what would they be doing then?
One would hope they would look at the situation going on outside their little realm and recognize that things are about to change and they had better f*****g well prepare for it. However I'm not so sure that would be happening even in this fantasy world because afterall, we are Air Canada pilots and we don't have to do what the rest of Canada is doing.
But alas, there
are Air Canada pilots challenging mandatory retirement which
does give us someone to hate and vilify. So we are spending all our time, energy and vast quantities of money fighting those dirty bastards we despise so much, and pretending instead that it is the rest of it that isn't happening.
Great job!
