Hi my name is Denis Cormier I’m a teacher. Paulette Raymond may I ask what is your occupation? You have interesting ideas!

The lawyers for the Union Executive failed the membership because they could have been at the law amendments committee arguing in Legalese why the status quo for the most part, should remain for a thousand different, intelligent and substantive reasons that were qualified and grounded in fact, evidence and common sense for the common good.

The lawyers are litigators who speak Legalese but they for some reason they have more credibility than expert teachers on education. This stance boggles the mind if you really think about it. Lawyers have little knowledge about education.

Why was Doucette the only spokesperson behind closed doors speaking to the Premier? What did the lawyers for government and the lawyers for the Union agree on? Why did the Union fold and advise 9000 teachers not to strike?

The parents might have rallied but not with the gusto they did last year or early on in February. The teachers had a right to speak about government because they caused them harm and the adverse effects demoralized both them and their profession.

Did government lawyers make a deal so the Union could launch an expensive charter challenge that only enriches the lawyers and takes years in the courts? Will the challenge cost the tax payers these legal fees?

Will a court challenge come to the same conclusion we already know with respect to government’s unlawful and gross disregard for the citizens of this province? McNeil is in breach of his duty.

Teachers should know this game is the “old boys club”. The boys are simply having fun behind closed doors like always.

The press – the spin doctors could have and would have pit the parents against the teachers in a blink of an eye if the teachers had called the strike like they wanted to do.

Rotating strikes could have been actioned and it would not have taken a lot of work – just passion to make a stand.

A hundred other things could have been negotiated by the Union Executive/Lawyers and government – Doucette went to a meeting that was a done deal and gave up everything.

I have to agree, it was a no win for teachers any way you look at it.

9000 teachers have been silenced by their employers too.

83 % of the union’s membership voted to strike. A strike wasn’t illegal – government was already in breach of trust and bad faith and dishonest practices.

The union membership do not know the politics and who is running who – they do not deserve this mistreatment.

I was as naive and uninformed 7 years ago but now everything is so incredibly transparent.