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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Aug 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
If you don't like what Doug Ford is doing to Ontario, wait until you see what Pierre Poilievre does with Canada.
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If you don't like what Danielle Smith is doing to Alberta, wait until you see what Pierre Poilievre does with Canada.
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Jul 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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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Jan 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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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Jun 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
John Diefenbaker: Cancels the Avro Arrow resulting in the loss of 25,000 jobs and severely damaging the Canadian aerospace industry...
Brian Mulroney: Privatized Petro-Canada, Connaught Labs...
