Freeze This.

The Harper Government plans to use the Federal Budget to attack the people who work for it.

As someone who, in real life, is a union member works in the public sector, I expect a harder time at the bargaining table when the economy crashes and burns as it has been doing of late, but the key words here are at the bargaining table. Imposing any wage freeze is an attempt to negate a legally binding Collective Agreement, just like Gordon Campbell's attempt to fire every front line health care worker in British Columbia (Bill 29) and force wage concessions (in many cases retroactive after workers were fired) negated the Hospital Employees Union's collective agreement.

The Supreme Court of Canada told Campbell and the B.C. Liberals where they could step off with Bill 29. Hopefully the court will ignore the troglodyte union-bashing echoing from York University and Ottawa transit stations and tell Stephen Harper where he can step off too. For a government hoping to stimulate investment, The Conservatives need to be reminded that investors prefer putting their money in jurisdictions where they know contracts will be respected.