For yank observers the C*nadian government has legislation that allows them to refer any strike action to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board without a vote from Parliament, and if CIRB rules against workers (which they always do) the strike becomes illegal and the union gets significant, prohibitive fines and potentially jailing of leadership if workers do not end their strike.
There has been criticism that the government's dependability in using this loophole to crush any major strike action (rail workers, posties are two very recent examples) then management has no responsibility for negotiating in good faith. This quote demonstrates that this is not just conspiracy theory but indeed exactly what is happening.
Anyways a big 
to the heroes who told CIRB to get fucked and kept striking anyways.
I think original quote source is here in this video, but I can't find a non-paywalled version
