There’s a tendency among the rich to look at how incredibly wealthy they’ve become in recent years and marvel at how brilliantly they’ve performed.

In truth, however, most of them have gotten wildly rich not because they’ve performed brilliantly, but because the rules have been rigged in their favour.

And now here we go again.

As if the rich need more of a leg-up, Prime Minister Mark Carney is introducing a measure that will tilt things even more in favour of capital over labour.

Of course, the Carney government doesn’t want to be seen as anti-worker. It insists, on the contrary, that it’s making the change “in solidarity with workers.”

But the fierce reaction from the labour movement reveals how fallacious that claim is. Labour is enraged that Carney is planning to change a section of the labour code in a way that undermines the ability of workers to use the one real weapon they wield in their battle against corporate power — the right to strike.

The Canadian Labour Congress maintains that the change gives Ottawa sweeping new powers to block legal strikes, putting Canada out of step with other G7 nations and weakening the bargaining power of........

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