National campaign launch: Getting from the Canada We’ve Got to the Canada We Want (RECORDING)

The chaos unleashed by Trump’s tariff threats has scrambled everyone’s political predictions.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives still lead in the polls, but all bets are off about what the ultimate outcome of the next federal election will be. That makes what we do in the coming months all the more important.

On March 4, 2025, Council supporters and members gathered online to discuss building our movement, our plans for the federal election and beyond. We shared ideas on how we can gather our forces, rally our allies, and build a movement to win the Canada we want.

Watch the recording

This campaign is the fruit of many discussions we’ve had since October 22, when more than 800 of us gathered for a lively national conversation on how we build people power to take on corporate greed. Our panelists laid out the urgent stakes of the moment we’re living in, but they also powerfully reminded us that when we come together in struggle, we can win.

We are all hungry for spaces where we can collectively make sense of the situation and plan together for a grassroots fightback against the corporate agenda – and the politicians, like Poilievre, who do their bidding. This is what our campaign will do.

Getting from the Canada We’ve Got to the Canada We Want

Learn more about how we’re building our movement and our plans for the federal election and beyond. Join us to share ideas on how we can gather our forces, rally our allies, and build a movement to win the Canada we want.

Resources

ICYMI: Our October 22, 2024, event, “The Many Can Defeat the Money,” which featured writer and feminist Judy Rebick, Ontario Federation of Labour leader Laura Walton, migrant rights activist Syed Hussan, and journalist Martin Lukacs was recorded. You can watch the full recording here or on Facebook.

As we prepare for the campaign, we’ve also put together two key resources to help guide conversations in our communities:

• Getting from the Canada We’ve Got to the Canada We Want: A primer to shape the Council of Canadians’ kitchen table conversations.
• Local Kitchen Table Conversation Facilitation Guide: A hands-on guide to help you lead discussions.

Read how Canada’s corporate elite are using Trump’s trade war to push their agenda of tax cuts, pipelines, austerity and militarism, published with The Breach, can be read here.