Step 4: Begin typing the name of the MP you want to learn about. As you do, their profile might pop up on its own. If it doesn't, click the search button to visit their profile. For this example, I chose #erinotoole
Step 5: On the MP's profile, click on the tab that says "Work".
Step 6: Under the "Work" tab, click on the tab that says, "Chamber Votes".
Then select the tab that says, "All Votes by this Member".
Step 7: FINALLY! You can now view the entire voting record for your MP. You can select by Parliament Sitting and Session or by the Type of Motion. You can also sort by how this Member voted.
Happy learning!
Please share if you found this helpful. #cdnpolitics
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Stephen Harper was elected by Liberals when the Liberal Party's vote share collapsed because of their Sponsorship Scandal, where the LPC defrauded the Canadian public and had MPs quit in disgust.
Liberals had a choice, Stephen Harper or Jack Layton and they voted with the Cons.
Liberals will tell you that Stephen Harper was the result of a confidence vote that Jack Layton voted for.
But the NDP did not hold the balance of power. Liberals were short two seats because MPs left.
If you look at the swing, you see where the Liberal votes went in 2006.
"Oh but Dumb Lefty, that looks like this benefitted Jack Layton!"
I agree, it does at first.
So let's see what happened in the Provinces!
Oop. Looks like most of the Liberal vote went to the Cons all the same.
The low wages and rollback of labour rights for the worker under neoliberalism are connected to the low rates and degradation of those on benefits. The insufficiency of benefit programs, feeds a ready supply of labour to low wage paying employers. Trapping the working class
2/5
into a cycle of poverty whether they earn a wage or receive assistance.
If you are poor and look down on people on disability or welfare and support punitive measures intrusiveness, cuts and austerity etc. to social welfare recipients, what you are unwittingly supporting
3/5
If you're a business owner in a Blue Collar profession, you're not working class. You're a capitalist.
If you're working for a wage in a white collar industry, you are working class. Wage earners are working class. Owners are capitalists. #TruckersForFreedom2022
Also add, there will always be class conflict between owners and workers. No matter how small your business. We are not the same.
I.e. the capitalist's interests to pay the least for the most labour is always in conflict with the worker's interests to be paid more for less work.
Not a single trucker who owns their truck / company, no matter how small or modest the profit, is a member of the working class.
So no, I do not consider this a "working class" movement. This is a petty capitalist movement.
This is a heinous lie I continue seeing #LiberalTwitter tell, as some argument about #NDP obstructing the LPC, as an excuse for this election, let's unpack it.
No, the NDP did not, "vote against the disabled". They initially refused to support the Covid-19 spending bill in June, which contained a $600 payment for disabled Canadians. And for good reason.
The Liberals wanted to fine/jail CERB recipients! (2/9)
Which was pretty unfair, and necessary to stop, because LIBERAL MPs like Wayne Easter and Adam Vaughan who told people to apply for CERB whether they knew they qualified or not! Can we say, entrapment? I'm no lawyer but, unfair to say the least. (3/9)
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?
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?
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