What Carney promises for Canada

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209yrq3y2po

Raising this as it should be interesting to monitor what happens to this bourgeois economist’s promises to:
Double home-building rates
Reduce taxes
Build a national electricity grid
Increase war spending
Boost domestic trade and car-making

Hope the Canadian comrades will be able to feed in their local knowledge

[Socialist Party Head Office]

Here’s what our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada say in their May monthly report

The Liberals under Mark Carney won 169 seats at the federal election on April 28. This was 3 seats short of the majority they needed; the Progressive Conservatives winning 144. The N.D.P. won 7, the Bloc Québécois 22 and the Greens won one. Most people thought it would be a tight race, which it was. Both Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh lost their seats, which must’ve been humiliating. In Poilievre’s case it may well have been his smart-ass personality and his constant personal attacks on his opponents which done-him-in. With Singh, whose party lost 7 seats, it was probably because so many would-be N.D.P. voters voted Liberal, not wanting to split its vote, thinking Carney would do a better job of standing up to Trump than Poilievre, which was the main election issue.

The Toronto Star endorsed the P.C.’s in the election on April 28. Its main points were, Canadian’s should support a government that is for free enterprise, Eliminates barriers, meaning cutting red tape, Restores fiscal discipline, reform the tax system and develop our natural resources and “That is why we are supporting Pierre Poilivere and the Conservative Party of Canada”. Since its founding in 1892, the Star’s main mantra has been to this effect, “Hey listen up folks, capitalism isn’t the economic piece of junk Marxists would have you think it is. No Siree, it’ll work just fine if you smooth away its rough edges”. You might think that with their crusading and reforming zeal they would support an openly reformist party like the N.D.P. or its predecessor the C.C.F., but they went for a blatantly “Screw the working-class party”.

Of all the provincial Premiers, Alberta’s Danielle Smith seems the likeliest to make a deal with Trump. This is probably because Alberta does a lot of business with the states selling oil and energy. Smith has given Carney a list of energy related demands which includes scrapping a federal tax on oil and gas emissions, eliminating an electrical vehicle mandate and ending prohibitions on single-use plastics. That sounds tough, but some of those issues apply to other provinces.

Carney now has to form a coalition of sorts to get legislation through. Besides taking on Trump’s junk, Carney will have to deal with a possible postal strike, a health system in near chaos, a political wild card in Alberta, Ms.Smith, an upcoming G7 in that province, crime which is out of control, housing problems galore including homelessness and a soaring cost-of-living, especially grocery prices; like, “Good Luck, Mate”.

For the working class in Canada, life would be slightly better if Canada did not become state 51, but nevertheless exploitation is exploitation and whether one is exploited as an American or a Canadian it sucks and not a one of the recently elected M.P.’s will take a stand against it.

[h.moss@swansea.ac.uk]

Great summary.

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