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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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May 28, 2022
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.
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Mar 24, 2022
Why, other than it being the right thing to do, should you care about disability or welfare if you're not on it?

Put simply, self interest.

If you think you can separate their material conditions from yours, you're deluding yourself. 🧵

1/5

#Canlab #LivingWage
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
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Feb 8, 2022
Transport XLR

Not a working class Joe. A Capitalist enterprise. The employees are working class. #GoHomeFluTruxKlan
ANDY Transport.

Not a working class Joe. A Capitalist enterprise.
Paul Donaldson Construction. Not a working class Joe, a capitalist enterprise.
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Feb 7, 2022
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.
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Sep 9, 2021
FACT CHECK!

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.

THREAD 🧵

(1/9)

#DisabilityDebate #Elxn44 #CERB
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)
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Aug 27, 2021
@Scribulatora's post about #Pharmacare is baloney

Here's why:

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)

#PromiseMadePromiseBroken #Elxn44 #ThunderBay
Add to that, in incumbent Chrystia Freeland's 2021 Budget, the Liberals allocated NOTHING NEW for Pharmacare!

And no Liberals, them topping up PEIs existing program, amounts to $54/person is NOT Pharmacare. It's a carrot to give you hope.

(3/9)

#UniRose
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