Jack Layton speaking this morning to Ontarian NDP’ers said bank bailouts cost each person in the world $582 and called for at least that much to be spent by the Harper Government on protecting the jobs and pensions of Canadian working class families. Layton staked out the NDP’s Parliamentary plan of economic stimulus including cancelling Harper’s corporate tax cuts and spending instead on low cost housing, research and development, trades training and infrastructure renewal including public transit. Layton demanded that workers have full access to their own money in the EI fund. He called for protection of workers pension funds and warned about government tampering with the Canada Pension Plan Funds in its February report. He reiterated the NDP’s position on climate change to make polluters pay through a hard limit cap and trade program and to clean up the tar sands. Nothing was said about the $200 million per month squander on the war in Afghanistan.
In contrast yesterday the Globe and Mail reported the “grass roots” Conservatives will demand less government and more privatization of health care at their policy convention in Winnipeg next weekend.
Also in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Paul Adams a former parliamentary correspondent and now teaching Journalism at Carleton University rails against the “fallacy” of a united “left wing alternative” in or out of Parliament. The piece is a thinly disguised response to Professor John Ryan of Winnipeg and his call for a left of centre coalition in an October 29th article in Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10742
What is missing in all of this? The organized labour movement!
Layton appeals for Harper to respect the 63% of Canadians that voted against him and work with the opposition parties on a united approach to solving the economic downturn.
What would give greater meaning to that appeal is thousands of Canadian workers and their families demonstrating at the Winnipeg Conservative Policy Convention next weekend and tens of thousands on Parliament Hill on the Opening of Parliament outlining organized labour’s plan for Canada.
Let Turn Canada!
In contrast yesterday the Globe and Mail reported the “grass roots” Conservatives will demand less government and more privatization of health care at their policy convention in Winnipeg next weekend.
Also in Saturday’s Globe and Mail, Paul Adams a former parliamentary correspondent and now teaching Journalism at Carleton University rails against the “fallacy” of a united “left wing alternative” in or out of Parliament. The piece is a thinly disguised response to Professor John Ryan of Winnipeg and his call for a left of centre coalition in an October 29th article in Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10742
What is missing in all of this? The organized labour movement!
Layton appeals for Harper to respect the 63% of Canadians that voted against him and work with the opposition parties on a united approach to solving the economic downturn.
What would give greater meaning to that appeal is thousands of Canadian workers and their families demonstrating at the Winnipeg Conservative Policy Convention next weekend and tens of thousands on Parliament Hill on the Opening of Parliament outlining organized labour’s plan for Canada.
Let Turn Canada!
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