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Working class politics is my religion. Unapologetically socialist, Black, and a woman. Not tolerant, but fair. #CeasefireNow

Sep 8, 2021, 17 tweets

As someone who opposes Islamophobia, why should I vote strategically for a party that drafted a dog-whistle bill around it or that voted for it, over the NDP who didn't?

#Islamophobia #Elxn44 #cdnpoli

As someone who supports labour organizing, why would I vote strategically for a party who doesn't want to strengthen labour laws to support workers during strikes and lockouts, when the NDP does?

#canlab #strike #Elxn44

As someone who wants trade deals that are good for Canada and Canadian workers and don't contain harmful ISDs and respect our sovereignty, why would I vote strategically for any party who undermines that? #trade #cdnecon #Elxn2021

As someone who respects civil rights and freedoms and our Charter, why would I vote for parties who undermine them the most, instead of the NDP who is generally on the side of more freedom and privacy rights?

#Charter #CivilRights #Elxn44

As someone who believes in social housing, and recognizes there are many people who rent and don't wish to, or will never afford to own, why would I vote strategically for parties who've refused to build housing and still are ignoring renters? #HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing

As someone who respects Human Rights at home AND abroad, why would I vote strategically for a party that doesn't wish to stop investing in companies they know are abusing human rights, over the NDP who does?

#HumanRights #cdnpoli #CPP

As someone who believes our government should stick to the promises they make to gain the confidence of the House, why would I vote strategically for parties who are so flippant about promises and vote against keeping them? #accountability #EI #cantax

As someone who is concerned about genocide and our foreign policy, why would I vote strategically for any party who refuses to review our arms sales to the middle east to ensure we are protecting human rights instead of the NDP? #YemenCantWait #foreignpolicy #Afghanistan

As someone who is concerned about the growing homelessness and violent evictions of unhoused people in parks, why would I vote strategically for any party who votes against addressing the housing crisis and building affordable housing and co-ops? #HousingCrisis #cdnpoli

As someone who supports unions and our right to strike for better wages and conditions, why would I vote strategically for a party who frequently undermines collective bargaining rights with back-to-work legislation, instead of the NDP?

#canlab #unionstrong #Elxn44

As someone who believes in developing public infrastructure to generate revenue and disagrees with a heavy reliance on P3s, why would I vote strategically for a party that prefers using public money in private partnerships, often at a loss? #PostalBanking #CanadaPost

As someone who is tired of getting gouged for my telecom services when I know other G7 countries pay less for the same level of mediocre service as me, why would I vote strategically for a party that enables big telecom, over the NDP? #RogersShaw #telecom #cdnpoli

As someone who is concerned about growing wealth inequality after seeing the median wage stagnate beyond inflation for some 40 years, why would I vote strategically for a party that's broken two election promises to close the stock-options loophole? #TaxTheRich #Wealthtax

As someone who is sick and tired of being able to get diagnosed and not treated, in a country that has medicare but not Pharmacare, why would I vote strategically for a party that has let me down on Pharmacare for 24 years?

#Pharmacare #cdnpoli

As someone who recognizes teeth are also a part of my body, and thinks it's absurd that any other oral issue can get treated under medicare, except for a dental one, why would I vote strategically for a party that doesn't believe dental care is health care?

#dentalcare

As someone who is worried about catastrophic, human-caused climate change, why would I believe some economist who says a party that hasn't met a climate change target in 29 years, and whose GHGs rose after the Paris Agreement, has a "sincere" plan?

#ClimateCrisis #Elxn44

The answer is, I wouldn't.

A strategic vote for me, is the NDP, because Liberals and Conservatives don't share my goals.

#VoteNDP #Elxn44

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