Is Trump-style government
THE CANADA WE WANT?
We need to stand up to Donald Trump
not cave in to his economic bullying
Trump wants to grab our resources, decimate our auto industry and even steal our water. We need to hit him where it hurts while making sure no one gets left behind. We can’t face this existential crisis with a Prime Minister afraid or unwilling to take tough measures against the U.S. president and his billionaire backers.
We have to be ready for a fight – and most Canadians are. But Pierre Poilievre isn’t. He’s just slapped a “Canada First” sticker on his old, MAGA-light platform. Many of his top advisors are admirers of Trump, and some, like Conservative MP Jamil Jivani, have close ties to the authoritarian regime.
We need to protect and expand public health care
Not open the door to even more privatization
Canada’s public health care system is in critical condition. We need to improve conditions to bring nurses back, expand community clinics, and clamp down on out-of-control drug prices. And we can’t do it without serious federal leadership.
Pierre Poilievre has cozied up to private health care providers and promised to massively cut federal spending, which will inevitably impact health care spending. Poilievre says he “rejects” pharmacare and could slash dental care just as these programs are getting started.
Even worse, Poilievre could try to rip up, weaken or simply not enforce the Canada Health Act, allowing provinces to engage in even greater privatization and corporate profiteering.
We need a government that will tackle the housing and cost-of-living crises
not pander to price-gouging corporations
While Poilievre poses as a champion of the working class, Canada’s 1% understand that his bashing the rich is a “shtick.” Beneath the angry, anti-elite exterior lies a “pro-business politician running on a platform of shrinking government.”
The Conservative Party’s policy council is full of lobbyists from the pharmaceutical, oil and real estate industries. And his fundraising events are well attended by corporate lobbyists.
His top advisor, Jenni Byrne, is a lobbyist for Loblaws.
Making life more affordable means cracking down on corporate price-gouging, giving workers more power to organize unions, and massively building public housing. Poilievre won’t do anything like that. Instead, he distracts and divides people by scapegoating migrants, attacking trans kids’ rights, and demonizing people experiencing homelessness.
We need to create green jobs and invest in publicly-owned renewable energy,
not “drill, baby, drill”
Poilievre doesn’t just want to axe the carbon tax.
He wants to gut environmental assessments, scrap emissions caps, and run roughshod over indigenous title. Building pipelines and subsidizing oil companies’ schemes like carbon capture will only make the climate crisis worse.
We need a green industrial policy that will build up publicly-owned renewable energy sources and an east-west electric power grid, high-speed rail and zero-emission vehicle manufacturing, so we wean ourselves from the fossil fuel industry once and for all.
We won’t get any of that with politicians like Pierre Poilievre, who answer to the beck and call of Big Oil.
We need a government that will rebuild public services that make life cheaper for everyone
not take a DOGE-style chainsaw to them
Pierre Poilievre talks about his opponents’ failure to grasp “simple math.” But the Conservative leader has said he will cut taxes ($14 billion), eliminate the deficit ($40 billion), and nearly double military spending ($40 billion).
Where will the money come from? Like Elon Musk, he says the cuts will be paid for through “government efficiency.”
In reality, cutting nearly $100 billion dollars would mean pharmacare, dental care and $10/day child care could all be on the chopping block. So could health and education spending and old age pensions, given how deep the cuts Poilievre wants.
We need only look south, where US seniors are losing social security benefits and veterans’ health care is being shredded, to see how that works out.
We know what we want. We know what we need.
And it ain’t Pierre Poilievre.
Together, we can stop Poilievre and the Conservatives. But we can’t sit back and wait for a politician to come along and save us.
Corporate lobbyists and the billionaire class are determined to push for their inequality-inducing, planet-burning agenda no matter who gets elected. The only way we can counter them is with a powerful, united movement fighting for a Canada that puts people, the planet, and our democracy before profit.
We need to get organized and go out into our communities to sound the alarm now about the dangers of a Poilievre government and the corporate agenda, during the election and beyond.
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