Yup. When you're a crown corporation with a business model that is:
- aging less than gracefully;
- getting whacked mercilessly by the intertubes;
- stumbling toward long-term decline;
- hated by current government with an ideo-illogic verging on insanity;
and the only ploy management can come up with to fend off discussing a pressing, problematic pension issue with striking unions is to lock 'em out and make a bald-faced, unsubtle, shamelessly opportunistic play for some of that anti-union back-to-work legislation
just like Air Canada got...
...
Nuthin' says "We're
totally ready to face all that down and get on with the whole 21st century thing" like,
ummm, repainting all the mailboxes...
