John Diefenbaker canceled the Avro Arrow program to appease the Americans. Our aviation industry never recovered.
Brian Mulroney brought in corporate mobility (free trade), and corporations said thank you and offshored their industries. He privatized more than 20 crown...
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corporations. Oversaw the deregulation of transportation, telecom, financial services, and the energy industries.(None of these services got cheaper as promised) This was done under the belief that Reaganomics/Thatcherism benefited everyone rather than just the wealthy.
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Brian Mulroney sold out Canada so hard it led to the decimation of the Progessive Conservative Party. The Reform part was created to fill the vacuum.
Stephen Harper was supporter of the apartheid South African government and was working with the extreme far-right group the...
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Northern Foundation whose primary purpose was to support apartheid and keep Nelson Mandela in prison.
When Stephen Harper became PM he sold off whatever Mulroney had left. Including AECL to SNC, the CWB to Saudi Arabia, gave China a one-sided sweetheart trade deal FIPA...
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This trade deal allows China to sue Canada in secret. We are beholden to China for 31-years.
Also, he fought against labeling Canadian Asbestos 'Harmful' a case that Canada lost. 'Why should Canada care if workers develop Asbestosis.'
And ran 8 consecutive deficits...
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Conservatives have a long history of selling out Canadians to appease American interests as well as a more recent history of selling out Canadian interests to China/Saudi.
Stephen Harper is currently the Chairman of the IDU. The IDU works to see authoritarian right-wing...
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Leaders such as Donald Trump, Victor Orban, Narendra Modi, Doug Ford, Scott Moe, Danielle Smith, Benjamin Netanyahu, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro gain power and subverting democracy to remain in power.
Harper also has a military tech company that is involved in a genocide...
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Pierre Poilievre will simply oversee the sell-off of the rest of Canada.
It's what conservatives do, and now they have the opportunity to fully embrace the far-right ideologies that they formerly denied. Canada is heading into a perfect storm of right-wing bullshit...
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And if we put a conservative leader leader at the helm one who believes Adolf Hitler was a Socialist. He will eagerly join Elon Musk & Donald Trump's ballet of bullshit.
Pierre Poilievre will simply oversee the:
Canada Going Out of Business
Sale. Everything Must Go.
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The wealthy amongst us are always talking about how we moved too far to the left.
Bullshit.
Was Canada more right or left in the 80s. More social services, more unionization, and free parking at the open public hospitals. Crown Corporations like Cannaught Laboratories...
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In the 1980s, Ontario Hydro was the largest construction company in the world. An Ontario Crown Corporation was the largest construction company in the world. All workers were unionized. GM in Oshawa had around 30,000 unionized workers. Workers had jobs, not gigs.
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Then, the era of Free Trade or, more accurately, corporate mobility. This encouraged a race to the bottom mentality, wages were cut unions attacked and gutted, manufacturing was moved to lower pay jurisdictions owners did great
workers not so much.
We lurched to the right.
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Conservatives like to pretend they are for the working class.
Look at Ontario - yes many working class people are struggling financially.
Do you think paying for Private Healthcare will help?
Forcing them to purchase Private Healthcare Insurance will that help?
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Massive Property Tax Increases due to the Provincial government not allowing Municipal gov's to collect fee's from developers and instead putting that financial onus on individual property owners; will that help?
We keep electing politicians that represent the capitalists.
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These conservative politicians will say whatever they have to to sell themselves to workers. They'll complain about taxes that benefit our society insisting that we are overtaxed. All the while making life more expensive for workers. Tax cuts benefit the rich and no one else.
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