we are not going to take action before it really becomes very clear that there is no goodwill at the negotiating table

This feels like a promise that they'll step in as soon as its clear an actual strike will happen. All Air Canada has to do is refuse to compromise and the government will fix it for them.

That might be a first.

The government has been intervening in behalf of and propping up Air Canada for longer than I've been alive, regardless of which party happens to be in office.

You've got to keep the airlines running, though. How could we burn such enormous amounts of fossil fuels for ever and ever without them?

Of course they’re not interfering. The last time they did that with the railway, it cost them their supply and confidence deal with the NDP. If they do it again, do they think the Cons and the NDP will hold back on a confidence vote?

Is your government really worth whatever you’re personally getting from industry CEOs?

@NightOwl

He has no compelling reason to do so. The railroad lockout put our entire economy and future health in jeopardy - it was a deliberate choice by the two corporations who coordinated it to threaten absolute scorched earth in Canada.

Airlines are not the vector for anything like that much of our economy. Lots of pain but not a deathblow.