Don't be too hard on GL. he is only DG CANSO on paper , he writes and says what his masters tell him to , and there are some crazy hardliners in there believe me .But thre are aslo some good guys. If the "hardline CANSO " wins over, they will be find themselves side tracked and CANSO might implose.
GL is not a bad guy to have a drink with, quite the opposite. Some of his masters definitively are.
There is a curernt strong debate among IFATCA whether to continue or not working with them on some issues , like Safety/Just culture implementation or global standards for data link for instance, because of this last stance (almost a month old BTW) .
Supporting AENA , and recently the DFS during their industrial disputes does not bother me per se , it is their members after all, but going beyond the support to provoke Controllers and turn public opinion aginst controllers as they have done in Spain is not on, and will bite back.
If they continue on that path ,a reality check will fall at some point ,and they will be remembered that without staff they are nothing, just headless chickens. We have the operational knowledge, not them, and most importantly : we bring the money in , not them.