I think they have to be careful. During these tough times it would not be difficult to lose the moral High ground and piss the public off.

But I think that they're mentally revisiting 1999, where we had an outgoing NDP government and the union was able to negotiate a sweet deal because the NDP of the day was trying to win points to salvage their chances.

We will see but I don't think this is the right time for anybody to be excessively unreasonable that's for sure