Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading.

- No, it's no huge surprise that the Cons are planning to launch systematic attacks against labour as the next step after making it clear they'll treat any strike or lockout as both illegitimate and entirely the fault of uppity serfs.

But it is worth pointing out that by threatening legislation to make sure that a vote against ratification of an agreement never happens again, the Cons are taking a step beyond even what most anti-labour regimes have put forward in recent history: rather than pretending they have any interest in workplace democracy (which is the line normally peddled as an excuse for, say, making certification more difficult), they're making it abundantly clear that they don't think union members should have any say whatsoever in the nature of the collective bargaining agreement that governs their work.

- Saskboy is right to worry that much Saskatchewan's media has been far too quick to narrow the options available to voters in this fall's election campaigns. But it's worth recognizing that its insistence on declaring a Sask Party victory to be a foregone conclusion before the campaign begins also forms part of that same myopia.

- Meanwhile, Steve points out the absurd lengths adopted by the Hudak PCs to prevent an entirely typical bit of misfortune from becoming part of the narrative of Ontario's election campaign.

- Finally, Newfoundland and Labrador go to the polls today. And there's plenty of reason for excitement that we'll see the province's first-ever NDP opposition as a result. [Update: And of course, the Yukon's territorial election is also happening today.]