PSAC Misalliance With Sheer Stupidity

It is nothing short of disgraceful that Canada's largest public service union and its chief executive officers make the unfortunate decisions that they do. Rather than gather respect from the public for their mission to support public workers, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, brings public attention to its utter lack of class.

Harpersays.caDon't you say: An example of the Harpersays website.

In seeking to draw attention to what they obviously feel is an incompetent, uncaring government and a prime minister who is incapable of performing the function for which he was elected, to head the country and steer it in an advantageous direction, what the PSAC has done is made an utter ass of itself. Not unusual; in fact, it seems to excel at that.

In inciting malicious personal attacks on the integrity and reliability of the prime minister to guide this country advancing it to an ongoing state of prosperity and fairness for everyone, the assumed authority of the union itself has been undercut by its juvenile stunt to embarrass the Prime Minister of Canada.

By posting a photograph that appeared on the prime minister's Flicker site to a site operated by the PSAC as part of its Harper Hates Me campaign, that allowed anonymous remarks to be posted as secret thoughts to be attached to the photograph of the Prime Minister, the union invited the introduction of scurrilous inserts, insulting not only to Stephen Harper but to all Canadians.

The "thought bubble" comments without attribution, allowing people to vent their frustrations, ignorance and hatred of a man in whom Canadians have placed their trust, and who has done his utmost not to betray that trust, the highest executive political position of the land has been insulted. The very vehicle of a program titled Harper Hates Me is despicable in and of itself.

Unions are not known for their delicacy of approach and diplomacy, and this one in particular exhibits a fairly thuggish approach to confrontation between worker and management. It is government, and by extension, the public taxpayer who employs these public service workers. We expect better from them and from their unions.

Unfortunately, those expectations are continually dashed.