In almost six years of weekly polling, the CEOs and business leaders on the COMPAS panel do not reach a consensus with great regularity. They do not agree on issues ranging from the environment to which party to support. But they agree on the anti-scab legislation being proposed in Parliament. The consensus or near consensus is unusually strong, stronger and more homogeneous even than some of their near unanimous positions on taxation.

Panelists are deeply concerned and deeply opposed. They see unions as having far too much power. Some concern is volunteered that excessive union power threatens the viability of individual sectors and potentially the economy as a whole, sometimes to the personal benefit of union managers. Panelists feel this at least as strongly as they did two years, when COMPAS last asked them.

These are the principal findings from the weekly business web-survey conducted by COMPAS for the Financial Post under sponsorship of BDO Dunwoody LLP.

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