Air Canada is privately owned. Why shouldn't what Air Canada does effect what US airline pilots do? The US economy is larger and more robust than Canada's, the cost of living is higher in Canada but we all fly the same airplanes. I think you rejecting out of hand what another pilot group has achieved because you believe they are "socialists" is asinine and short-sighted. Just FYI, unions are not far off from socialism. If that makes me a socialist than so be it. In my opinion they set the bar where it should be. Now pilots here in the US need to man up and demand what they deserve.