Here’s a curious line from the Canadian Labour Congress’ statement on Manitoba’s NDP government introducing laws to ban replacement workers: “Workers everywhere should be able to exercise their right to strike without worrying about the threat of scab labour.”

It would be like if Loblaw came out with a statement saying that, “Grocery stores everywhere should be able to exercise their right to inflate food prices without worrying about the threat of Sobeys, Metro, Costco, Walmart and independent grocers.”