A class confrontation is rapidly coming to a head in Canada’s second-most-populous province, with major implications for workers across North America and around the globe.
Even as school absences are at record levels due to a tsunami of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, the president of the CSQ, Quebec’s third largest labor federation and biggest teachers’ union, is vehemently opposing any reintroduction of mask mandates in the province’s schools.
Both in Quebec and in English Canada, the union apparatuses do everything to isolate, divide and sabotage workers' struggles–especially when they pose a potential challenge to the capitalist political and social order.
Legault and his CAQ benefited from mass popular alienation with the traditional parties of provincial government and the right-wing campaign mounted by the pseudo-left Québec Solidaire.
Bloc Québécois campaigns for Canada s Sept 20 election by boasting of its convergence with right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.