Canada

I'm not standing with either side here. This is going to be a case study in how not ever being able to reach a compromise completely destroys the public's confidence in an institution. I just watched a rather large institution say behind closed doors today, that they'll never have confidence in CP and it's very soon going to be codified in their policy that it's never used for any corporate purposes in the future. I'm also on a board that has already reached that conclusion with the uncertainty earlier this year, and now has a resolution out to their membership at their AGM to only electronically send notice for funds collections in the future, as CP can no longer be counted on.

CP is legitimately fucked, in more ways than one, and will never exist in the way it did yesterday morning, no matter what happens here. This is the nightmare scenario, and both the executive and the union only have themselves to thank for it. Their membership should be mad as hell, because not very many of them are going to have the jobs they once did. As a tax paying Canadian, I'm pretty mad at the executive too, how they can burn that much cash is mind boggling. Pretty f'n broken. You can curse me and throw all the hate that you want at me for this viewpoint, but it's the stone cold truth.