Singh says Rideau Hall incident would have ended differently if suspect was person of colour

Trade unionism as a coherent political philosophy is dying, because unions are dying. The transition to a post-industrial economy has been hard on organized labour, which hasn't found its feet in a competitive service-based economy.

Unions dying has been a factor, for sure. However, I would say that the death of unions and union-like policy is greatly overstated. Not only is unionization present in the service industry (like Safeway), but the gig economy is starting to adopt unionization with the Foodoora vote. Perhaps more importantly, in some ways the government has actually enforced generally some things that unions were created to solve, so some voters are treating the government as their union.

As to it being a global phenomenon, I'm afraid I don't know enough about that. I did however do a quick google about the parties you mentioned and don't think those situations really represent reduced support for trade unionism. For instance, the French Socialist Party's woes read a lot like Harper leaving from CPC leadership. The German SPD is unfortunately probably not really the party to look at since its unionists appear to have splintered off and later formed the socialist Die Linke and talk of its recent failure has more to do with its alliance with Merkel not leaving it room to differentiate itself.

Furthermore, with the US Republican party having recently played up rust belt labour concerns to great effect and trudeau's (IMO disturbing) "middle class" rhetoric, I don't really buy that labour-focused politics aren't sellable. Rather,

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