Apparently Day was just winging it again, speaking out off the top of his head, without thinking first, and especially without listening to what his trusted aide Rod Love would tell him to say. Did Day ever pay for his faux-pas. Even before day was done, big business and the corporate lobby had came down hard on poor Stockwell. By comparison, the GST is a mere bother. At least poor people can be thankful he didn't promise to raise so he could lower income taxes to 17 per cent for wealthier Canadians.
Nobody seems to have noticed but the Canadian labor movement is tearing itself apart.
The Canadian Labor Congress and its president Ken Georgetti is facing an incredible threat from Buzz Hargrove and his Canadian Auto Workers. The Canadian Auto Workers have even rented their own office space in Ottawa South, just a couple of kilometres up Riverside Drive from the CLC headquarters. It could end up being their national headquarters. The growing split in the Canadian labour movement couldn't come at worse time for Canadian workers and their unions. In recent years unions have been taking a kicking from corporate Canada, the Conrad Black controlled news media, from globalization, free trade and cottage industries.