Gotta love people like Andrew Coyne and his friends.
Caterpillar Inc. buys itself a Canadian company, sucks it dry, closes it down and moves the work to points south. Much of that work will probably land, eventually, in Indiana, where the company got a $28-million goodie bag from job-hungry locals to refurbish and reopen an old plant.
So Coyne wags his finger at the union -- to the cheers of the red-meat boys -- and gives workers a lecture on times are tough, gotta face reality, ain’t no 60-cent dollah no more, gotta be competitive, and all that predictable, hard-nosed, right-wing stuff.
The company may be nasty and greedy, but its actions are exactly what we should expect in this dog-eat-dog globalized world, he says.
Canadians will just have to man up and learn to play in the real world's game where, apparently, any wage from our American boss is better than none at all. And there we are -- right back on the dock diving for quarters.
What a tough, realistic, capitalistic outlook.
Canada must have more chumps per square inch than any other nation on earth.
