CAQ accused of 'muzzling' unions in bill restricting how dues are spent

QUEBEC — Union leaders didn’t mince words Tuesday as they pleaded with Labour Minister Jean Boulet to back down on his plan to regulate how they can spend their members’ dues. “You want to muzzle us,” Magali Picard, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) president, told Boulet, criticizing measures in the bill that could limit unions’ abilities to challenge the government in the courts and fund political activities. T