"unions have made it very difficult to obtain a union card"???

What? Governments of all stripes, including NDP have been swallowing the business Kool-Aide and making it harder and harder for people to join unions or for unions to organize. We're not as bad as the US--which is what Wente inadvertently wrote about--but we're not that far behind.

In my 20 years as an adult I've seen nothing but a series of assaults on the integrity of the collective bargaining process and unionization drives by GOVERNMENT. Or, like the last Federal government, a direct assault on unions themselves designed to frustrate unions (tellingly, businesses receiving the same tax deductions did not experience the same assault).