Since it’s become a fun-filled dodge for Canada’s public sector union leaders to use their soapboxes to play Model United Nations instead of doing their actual jobs, some members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) have stepped up to add a dash of foreign policy to their union’s agenda.

For those who might think ETFO’s main preoccupations are securing better pay for its 80,000 members and obtaining classroom supports for students, the opening pages of its annual report, complete with a word salad about “systems of oppression such as colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia classism and ableism,” ought to disabuse them of that misconception.