Liberals showed workers ‘total disdain’ by holding election on National Day of Mourning, advocates say [Video]

The leader of a Hamilton community organization says the date chosen for the federal election shows a lack of concern for workers, given that it’s widely known the National Day of Mourning is observed every year on April 28.

Darren Green, president of the Hamilton Steelworkers Area Council, said as early as March 13 when there was talk that the election could possibly be called for that day he made an appeal on social media for the Prime Minister’s Office to consider choosing another day.

“It’s about them actually being insensitive to the workers’ needs. I mean, it’s total disdain, it shows their lack of empathy and their disdain for the working people, of the working families of Canada,” Green told CBC Hamilton. 

“Somebody in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) should have known that April 28th is the International Day of Mourning. That it’s just unconscionable that they would pick …