This is why the federal minister must act immediately before the lockout/strike takes effect. At the very least, impose a 7 day cooling off period with an instruction that both parties should negotiate in good faith, and then allow the strike to proceed. This is to address the deficiency in regulations that allows Air Canada to keep posting messages that its operations are continuing as is, until such time as it cancels flights at an indeterminate time. It is misleading passengers because the website does not say when flights will start being cancelled and which flights have a greater risk of cancellation. The airline is not making much of an effort to facilitate transfers to other airlines either. The airline acts like this because there is no legal obligation to do otherwise. The government should then let the strike proceed and run for as long as it takes to resolve the issue. Both the airline and the union will start to feel the financial pain after a week and will have an incentive to settle. A strike now, leaves consumers in a hardship. The airline knew a strike would happen, and did not share that information with its customers. Instead it sent messaging to carry on. Cancellations and changes should have started a week ago. That's bad faith.