So the author is blaming Carney for the job losses US tarriffs are causing; Is upset Carney isn’t expanding the EI program, and then accuses Carney of corporatizing Canada for short term miniscule reprieve.
This is what I mean when I say a lot of progressives have lost the plot: Our entire political discussion for most Canadians’ living memory has occurred in the sandbox of US hegemony. Carney didn’t destroy that, Trump did. Carney is diversifying the supply chains Trump is using to threaten us.
The author calls for an alternate response to Trump based on working class solidarity. But they undermine their own credibility by calling Carney our enemy instead of actually being the response they’re calling for.
I’m not giving Carney a free pass, but I voted for someone who could mitigate the harm MAGA-USA is causing and Carney is doing exactly that. As much as I’ll be voting (indirectly) for Avi Lewis next federal election, the fact of the matter is that NDP under Singh wasn’t up to this task.
After Carney has done his job the NDP can step in and fix our domestic policies.
Hard agree.
Though I don’t think I’ll be voting Avi Lewis ever. I really do not like what the NDP as a party is, and I don’t like the people involved in it currently.
The NDP still needs a leader who can edit down their list of causes to a practical list and explain how that benefits all working Canadians. The message isn’t making it through because there’s no clear message, and calling Carney the enemy doesn’t help at all.
There needs to be a party that can pitch the how a strong social safety net enables lower class Canadians to start businesses and get us all off the multinational corporation’s teat of benefits. In Canada’s whole history we’ve never had so few people starting businesses, we all have our expensive (IMO mostly irrelevant) degrees and houses and nobody can afford to take a risk on a business venture.
More small and medium businesses means more competition on prices, fewer monopolies, better competition for salaries, faster business decisions, and better products.
Our society is stuck in a local optima that makes us weak and life expensive. And that’s by design, heavily influenced by our English power heritage and American cultural proximity.
Avi is a step in the right direction but I agree NDP is still way too “LPC-lite.”
Cuz yea exactly. A NDP with vision would be pushing small business in tandem with social safety net programs. Empowering people to help themselves.
I’m not blind to the fact that Carney’s economics carves out a big chunk of our productivity for the same Epstein-billionare class that is destroying the planet.
But in the face of MAGA-USA imperialism the NDP is not a hill I’m willing to die on.
Yeah that’s largely how I feel too.
I’m not very happy with LPC, I really expected more, but the party at large is fucking stupid.
Given the election options there was no other choice. If an election were held today, I still think there’s no other choice than Carney LPC.
Quite literally no skin in the game.
He works at a university, and while I will acknowledge that he is an expert on labour, given it’s his field of study, his conclusions demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of the real world that is common in academia.
If we do not protect companies to some degree, there will be no employers, and while I would like to see his ideal world, I exist in the real one. I don’t want to work for a big corporation, but in my field, that’s where the jobs are.
People like this make perfection the enemy of progress and it ignores some fundamental realities.
Union leaders need to worry about keeping their members employed before ideology can even be a factor.
It’s been proven time and time again that we cannot trust of rely on the United States, and lashing ourselves to them will be far more damaging than the short-term pain we’ll feel.
Not working with government and business weakens you during a time of crisis, not strengthens you. Government and business will remember who helped, and who got in the way. Want to make the union an enemy, be an obstruction instead of a problem solver.
Trying to hold the Canadian government responsible for the actions of a foreign power is sheer stupidity and actually makes me doubt his credentials as an expert.
Denouncing national unity when we are under attack and in crisis is worse than just stupid. What plan does he propose? What solution does he offer? What ideas does he have? Nothing. Just hot air.
I’m with you on this. There is nobody else who has the clout Carney does on the international stage, and we are going to need all the friends we can get, especially since we are entering an age of mercantilism again. We need to rebuild our military because we are going to need it bad and Avi Lewis would do the opposite. We aren’t moving into a better time globally, things are going to get worse before they get better and we need to be prepared.
