OTTAWA — The head of the national union representing Air Canada flight attendants said he’s ready to go to jail as he called on members to continue the strike deemed illegal by a federal labour tribunal Monday.

“We will not be returning to the skies,” Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) national president Mark Hancock told reporters Monday afternoon. “If it means folks like me (are) going to jail, so be it.”

Hancock was responding to a Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decision Monday morning that the ongoing Air Canada flight attendant strike is illegal and that their union’s direction to keep striking is “unlawful.”

The CIRB decision came one day after it ordered flight attendants back to work shortly after the Mark Carney Liberals invoked a controversial authority to d

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