It's #CanadaDay eh?

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.

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.

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. 🧵

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#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

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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.

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.

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.

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#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)

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

@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

HOW TO GET MORE POLITICALLY INFORMED IN CANADA TUTORIAL (THREAD)

Did you know that you can learn what our MP's are really up to without bias and spin? Well it's true!

Take advantage of a great resource, here's how:

#cdnpoli, #CPC #LPC #BQ #NDP #GPC Step 1: Look up the website for our Parliament. It's . https://t.co/H3DHLgDdmMourcommons.ca