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Canada is apparently making a hard run at the Netherlands' current status as the laughing stock of the modern world:

Canada's top court has given the country's human rights commission the go-ahead to investigate whether flight attendants should be paid the same as pilots and airline mechanics.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees [argued] that the airline discriminated because it paid attendants differently "for what it argued was equally valuable work performed by mechanical personnel and pilots."

Let's have a quick passenger quiz. Which of the following is more "valuable" to you?

1) The timely arrival of a bag of stale peanuts, delivered by a double-digit I.Q. bimbo with fewer job skills than a three-legged housecat.

2) Plane not falling out of sky.

Take your time. Carefully consider all the ramifications before answering.