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As a shocking move (not) the liberal government side with AirCanada patrons and forced the flight attendants union to go in legal arbitration (right word ?)
If you liked spammed your social with photo of Patricia Hadjy and PM Carney with the #UnpaidWorkWontfly
Love & Rage
I am utterly gutted at Carney's leadership. He's followed the Liberal old guard's mandate the same way Trudeau did, and we're all paying the price for that.
I truly believed he would be tough enough to do the right thing and so far he's done just the opposite.
His campaign was basically a trick. We dodged Poilievre's clueless reactionary Trumpism-lite, but got conservatism by other means. Corporate-friendly centrist liberals who don't deliver for the people will never stave off fascism for long. Canada and the UK are both in this position right now. We need electoral reform that would allow smaller parties to get a foothold and prove themselves. Under current conditions the first-past-the-post system seems to guarantee a slow drift into the jaws of the far right.
The Liberals will never give us electoral reform though, and the smaller parties are now too small to be able to force their hand. If the NDP can remember to be a left party and find a leader with broad appeal, then maybe things could be different for the election after the next one.
The true opposition does not wear convenient colors and wave flags, the opposition is the people with power and money. Our opposition is not stupid. They played us well and make it feel like our fault. Democracy doesn't matter when they only allow two choices and they control both choices.
Recall that Jagmeet "Singh" was actually from the upper crust of Indian social structure. His actual family name is Dhaliwal.
He was never on our side.
That's a weird take. Family name and upbringing aside, he was the most "on our side" politician available at the time. I think his main fault was simply that he wasn't very likeable.
Hes a rich fuck who used the NDP to further his own things. Hes as much on our side as Taylor Swift or any of the Trumps.
He didnt do jack shit for Vancouver after he was parachuted into one of the safest NDP strongholds in the country and it is directly on head for losing it.
Equating Jagmeet to both Taylor Swift and the Trumps? I'm not sure I'm following you point, unless your point is simply "rich people bad".
Did you have a better candidate to cast your vote to?
Honestly because of his leadership, my future votes will be going towards NDP or Greens. The Liberals have lost my vote forever. I voted Liberal to avoid a Conservative government and I feel like I ended up with one anyways.
In my riding (historically strong NDP) that kind of thinking got a conservative MP elected. I'm sure similar situations played out across the country.
NDP doesn't really campaign in my province, Liberals had the better shot here.
I grew up in Saskatchewan during a time when almost everyone automatically voted NDP ... much of that because of Tommy Douglas' and the CCF/NDP legacy.
For years now I've mostly voted strategically, except for the rare times I've voted my choice. But this utter betrayal by the Liberals has burned that bridge.
It's NDP every time from now on.
Do you know why the CCF fell out of favour? Tommy Douglas had a really long tenure so he must have done well. What did him in? If you know. 😊