The longshoremen are basically a borderline criminal organisation, especially given their alleged connection to all the smuggling in and out of the ports. But even beyond that, just the basic way you become part of the longshoremen is corrupt / enough to question anyone coming from that organisation. From what I’ve heard/seen, the way employment with them goes, each member is given a ‘recommendation’ that they can give to someone else, and that person gets preferential hiring – these recommendations are basically how you get in. So current employees sell these things for >$10k. To my understanding, this practice is explicitly illegal in Canada, but the longshoremen get away with it because the law has a very hands-off approach to the port unions for some reason.

There’s no way I’d trust a person from that sort of setup in politics. Even just participating as a worker in such a sketchy setup, your ethical backbone would become highly questionable.