Steelworker union-rep crashes Harper rally in Hamilton

Wayne Rae, a rep for the local branch of the United Steelworkers' union, crashes a speech by Stephen Harper at a Conservative rally in Hamilton on April 7, 2011. Rae, who said he supports the NDP, wants the Conservatives to do more to protect jobs in Hamilton.

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[SelfishGene99]

Way to go United Steelworkers! Harper has got to go and since he won't let anyone who is not a HarperCultZombie around him, I guess we have to do it the hard way.

Thanks for standing up for Canada.

[BoredomCorner]

@bcandatree Well I often get the far-right accusing everyone who disagrees with them, unemployed socialist whores and hippies, for no reason at all. Just yesterday, I saw someone claim that Trudeau was a communist (yeah right, in the middle of the cold war a communist would be PM for 15 years?), yet when I asked him if he knew what a communist was he just froze.

[jimbroski1]

you should have layed that boy out putting his hands on you not once but a few time he be sleeping with all reports watching then fill them in .

[MsMarieKelly]

Well done Wayne! Nice to see the working class standing up to the right wing corporate agenda. You are right. Harper (and the Liberals before) are selling off our country piece by piece to foreign corporate interests. As our decent middle class jobs get sold off and hard working Canadians end up on the street, corporations line their already ballooning pockets with the money they make from our human suffering. Shame on Harper and the conservatives and shame on us if we dont vote them out!

[ve3tru]

Hmm....harper wants to give tax breaks to large companies so this guy can keep his job at the steel mill, the liberals want to tax them out of business. Free trade is a red herring as all parties will quietly support it in one form or other.The problem is not free trade, but a political system based on corporations, that cuts through all parties.

[eastduchess]

I am getting weary at being subjected to these staged situations; this is becoming more prevalent these days and should be recognized for what it is - rude!

[624husker]

thank you Wayne Rae, the working class, working poor need more voices in Ottawa, congrat to making a difference, workers should be at all Harpers Rallys to ask the questions that matter.

Mike, Guelph

[AndreaMN]

think it is funny how union workers keep protecting union reps when they are guilty of being part of the problem of selling off their jobs to other countries, face it...they suck....this looks a bit staged with the microphones just so happening to being on hand,,,,this is BS staged ....what everyone is not getting is both the democrats and republicans have sold out their fellow Americans and it is time to CLEAN HOUSE

[shawnmaestro]

i want to be Wayne Rae when i grow up. he's got a lot of integrity.

[panamavida]

Don't put your hands on me, haha, Nice Wayne. He's right though, enough of this selloff of Canadian manufacturing to China and India, offshoring an economic base such as manufacturing to countries that use near slave-wage is a betrayal to Canadians. It denegrates our societies and forces people to either work minimum wage jobs, or force them to leave their communities (and family) to gain proper employment.