Air Canada strike brought to you by the Liberal government

For years, the Liberals have worked to increase the power of Canada’s labour unions, and the monster they created is now coming back to bite them as Air Canada’s flight attendants walk off the job, grounding hundreds of flights. But Ottawa can start to fix the mess it created by opening the airline market to more competition, thus lessening the impact that strikes have on consumers.

It’s no coincidence that the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents more than 10,000 Air Canada employees, chose this moment to go on strike and throw the country’s air transportation network into chaos.

The contract between the airline and its flight attendants ended in March , but the union waited until the height of the summer travel season to walk off the job, in a move that has s