First, the Hoskin's report that Liberals commissioned, says that there should be a Bill for Pharmacare passed BY January 2022. Bills pass 3 readings in the HoC before going to the Senate, they tabled NOTHING! (1/9)
Also, in the 2019 election, Liberals promised us Pharmacare and incumbent MP Patty Hajdu, just 3 MONTHS later, began walking back this promise in the media. (2/9)
In NS 2021, ON 2018, 2006 and 2011, Cons won because LIBERAL swing voters, VOTED CONSERVATIVE. #Librealslookitupchallenge
Liberals like Scrib then turn around and scare-monger the left about vote-splits b/c they want Liberal majorities. (4b/9)
If you want to talk about "thwarting positive change" it's rewarding the Liberal Party who has broken promises to the Left with our vote and giving them a mandate to continue letting us down. (5/9)
Like they did when they voted WITH the Cons, AGAINST NDP's motions and bills such as:
Or like they did when they adopted Stephen Harper's health care funding and maintained it for 6 years!
This is the party who cares about Pharmacare? They who maintain austerity on health care, vote against Public LTC, against dental, against Pharmacare?
No.
(7/9)
The only thing Liberals have done towards Pharmacare in Parliament 43 is re-affirm their commitment to it in March (another @NDP motion ty @DonDavies!) after again, Patty Hajdu was seen walking back her campaign promise in January in the media.
Did you know that Canada's Council of the Arts was built on the blood of massacring Salvadorians?
It's true!
Izaak Walton Killam was Canada's richest man. He had an electricity monopoly in El Salvador which was enforced by military dictatorship of General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez who came to power in a coup in 1931.
General Martinez was a f̵a̵s̵c̵i̵s̵t̵ a leader promoting freedom and democracy, according to the West, who had a penchant for nullifying the results of elections won on the left and cancelling elections entirely as he didn't like the results.
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
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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
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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)