The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has gone into the theatre of the absurd business.

The union has launched a social media campaign, featuring an "absurd" giant, grey squirrel, which is designed to engage Canadians in a conversation about this country's fiscal deficit and the future of public services.

In a video posted last Friday, we see PSAC's giant squirrel-of-the-absurd invade what looks like a Service Canada office and wreak havoc, preventing a government worker from serving a young woman holding a baby.

About 30 OPSEU members and supporters gathered outside the Marriott Eaton Centre hotel Tuesday to demonstrate against the Liberal plan to terminate another 231 OPSEU members on Thursday.

The largest cuts are expected to take place in the Ministry of the Attorney General, Transportation and Health and Long Term Care.

Inside the hotel, the premier spoke to the Economic Club of Canada about his vision for Ontario that will be heavily influenced by the report from the Commission on the Reform of Public Services chaired by economist Don Drummond, former chief economist for the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

I spent a fair bit of time on Parliament Hill from 1981 to 1984, the final years of the Trudeau era, and, again, from 1992 to 2000, the twilight of the Mulroney era and a good part of the Chrétien era.