Ignatieff lays down his plans in face of budget deficit-Ignatieff dévoile son plan de rélance après le nouveau déficit

Free national child-care, a reopening of the Kelowna accord, a high-speed rail-link between Québec City and Windsor, a fairer Unemployment Insurance regime. These are just some of the promises made by the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the wake of the 50 billion dollar budget deficit announced by Finance Minister Flaherty last week. This is quite a fair bit of investment in the livlihoods of ordinary Canadians across the confederation. Ignatieff must continue to push the envelope, and not let up on his critique and correction of the Canadian Conservative Party which continues to put the jobs and survival of families in peril through its mismanagment of government.

During a time of financial crisis, it is essential that the government continue to take steps to improve the infrastructure and services in the country, because it is at that time that they are most needed. Slashing public-spending is not the answer. However neither are the piecemeal reforms proposed by the Liberal Party.

What is needed is a radical break with the status quo. The time has come for a fair tax system that takes from the wealthiest and provides for the poorest and adequately funds the essential services. Military spending must be slashed to provide for the needs of the working Canadians, as well as increased aid to poorer countries. Workers must have the right to strike and occupy. There ought to be a sliding-scale of wages. These are just a few of the comprehensive measures that need to be taken to raise the standard of living for all and build a more just and equitable society.

En français:

Garderies sans frais, une ouverture de l'accord Kelowna, un train à haute vitesse dans le corridor Québec-Windsor, un régime d'assurance d'emploi plus équitable et juste. Tel sont les promisses faits par le leader libéral fédéral M. Michael Ignatieff dans l'ombre d'un déficit de plus de 50 milliards dollars, annoncé par Ministre de Finance Flaherty. Ceci est une juste somme d'investissement dans la qualité de vie des Canadiens et leurs emplois. Il faut que Ignatieff continue de pousser les enjeux et pas ralentir sur son critique et correction de M. Harper et son agenda conservateur qui suit avec la mise en péril du niveau de vie des Canadiens.

Pendant une crise financière, il est essentiel que le gouvernement suive avec les mesures pour améliorer l'infrastructure et services sociaux au pays, parce que c'est exactement maintenant qu'ils sont les plus obligés. Coupant les dépenses publiques n'est pas la riposte. Or, ni sont les réformes abstraites du Parti Libéral.

Il faut que nous rompions avec le statut quo. L'heure est arrivée pour un système de taxes qui prend de plus riches et fournit les plus pauvres adéquatement et les services essentiels. Dépenses militaires doivent être réduits pour fournir les besoins des travailleurs, et aussi une hausse dans l'aide humanitaire. Les travailleurs doivent avoir le droite de grever et occuppier. Il oblige une système de salaire sur une échelle-mobile.

Libellés : Libéraux, Pauvreté et développement, Politique

par Borges à 14:23

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Employment Insurance Saga may provoke a general election

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is beating the war drums as he hints that he is willing to provoke another general election over the issue of unemployment insurance. Apparently he sees it as so essential during the economic crisis that he is willing to go to the polls for that very reason, even while the NDP and Bloc Québécois politicians have recoiled in fear at the possibility. Ignatieff is quoted as saying:

I can foresee it and I can foresee it in the near future. But I repeat the word foresee,” he told reporters. “Let me say it again so it's perfectly clear: I am trying to make Parliament work for Canadians, number one. Number two, I am trying to get EI improved for all Canadians. [Globe and Mail, 26.5.09]

The way in which the Harper regime has handled the crisis is deplorable, and the Employment Insurance issue is its most shameful betrayal of the the Canadian working class. The Liberal Party is right to push this issue incessantly, and to, if necessary, act in their role as Official Opposition and vote down this parliament. The NDP and Bloc should be supporting this bold move. Of course, the opinion polls do help the Liberals in making these threats, as they seem to be on course to form a government...

Libellés : Libéraux, Pauvreté et développement, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 13:27

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Opposition parties unite for workers' rights!

The Bloc Québécois has introduced, with the support of the other Opposition parties in Parliament, a bill that would prohibit employers from implementing the policy of using strike-breakers (or «scabs»). Bill C-386, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers), is summarised as follows:

The purpose of this enactment is to prohibit employers under the Canada Labour Code from hiring replacement workers to perform the duties of employees who are on strike or locked out. It extends the obligation to maintain essential services.

The enactment also provides for the imposition of a fine for an offence.

It is just and right to introduce this new law. As it stands, the hard-won right to strike is greatly obstructed by government and union bureaucracy, not to mention the obvious trickery and underhandedness of the bosses. One of the main obstacles to a successful work-stoppage is the use of strike-breakers, and this practice should rightly be curbed.

One hopes that the Liberals, who were the party that stipulated the essential services exception, will throw their full support behind it, and not just waiting and words. The Opposition has more than enough MPs to pass this vote, and if it means reversing the government, if it comes to that, well so be it. Harper needs to learn that the Left can unite to achieve.

par Borges à 11:25

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Employment Insurance Saga: Beating the war drums

Michael Ignatieff has reiterated his threats to topple the Conservative government if it does not unveil a new employment insurance program by the summer. saying that parliamentary work is not tenable while the current benefit system is in place. Harper has already said that he is not afraid of the prospect of a new election, despite Tory losses on a national scale, and that the Liberal plan is untenable.

M Ignatieff is correct to contest this issue in the most serious of manners. The Conservative government has done absolutely nothing for workers who have lost their jobs, nor have they moved to protect jobs at risk of being lost. The administration has set a new threshold for being uncaring and insensitive to the needs of the working class.

As leaders of the Opposition, the Liberals have a duty to point out the flaws of Conservative policy and its significant shortcomings. However findings show that Canadians are weary of elections, and that they would prefer for the current parliament to get on with the work of leading the country through the economic crisis. However, it would be silly to think that any of the parties could currently offer a way out. The NDP plan is most generous and Liberals should put their political differences aside and fight for the needs of Canadian workers.

Libellés : Conservatives, Libéraux, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 11:14

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Harper gets tough/stupid on Emloyment Insurance

Prime Minister Harper has astounded his opponents and supporters alike by threatening a general election in the face of Liberal demands for a reduction in the work hours threshold to be eligible for unemployment benefits. The current proposals would reduce the number of hours to 360 throughout Canada, and bring employment insurance to over 150 000 Canadians who currently are without any support.

Harper's people claim that he isn't opposed to all change to the unemployment benefits regime, just the ones that the Liberals are proposing. Of course not, why should the Conservatives waste a perfectly good opportunity to take credit for something that their opponents initiated. They will simply bide their time and come out with a watered down version of the Liberal Plan, most likely to do with a modification of the current formula, probably taking out the regional unemployment rate out of the equation.

However the fact that the Conservatives have the gall to pretend that they are ready for another election shows how out of touch with reality they truly are. Though Stephen Harper is widely preferred to M. Ignatieff, his party is not. The Conservatives are losing support in all their traditional areas of strength, including Québec. And all that on top of the fact that most Canadians are weary of another election in such a short amount of time, especially considering that the last one solved nothing...

Libellés : Conservatives, Libéraux, ROC

par Borges à 11:00

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Québec's adoption of the cap-and-trade scheme and its pitfalls

Québec Liberals seem to be taking the initiative that they were previously known for, and going on the offensive against the Harper government, with its flagrant neglect of environmental issues. Québec, under the Liberal government of Jean Charest, will join with Ottawa and British Columbia in a the cap-and-trade emissions scheme known as the Western Climate Initiative, which will be done through mainly through the Montréal Carbon Stock Exchange. Québec has set its goal of reduction to 15% of 2005 levels by the year 2020.

Cap-and-trade is in itself a cop-out, and a serious let down to anyone with an environmental conscience. That companies are free to simply buy the right to pollute more than they are already ridiculously allowed by law to do, is ludicrous. What we need is a cap policy, where companies have strict guidelines and they must follow them to the letter, or else face serious penalties and legal ramifications. Also, the target for reductions needs to be much more ambitious. Yes, we are facing an economic crisis, however does that mean that our priorities are thrown out the window? No! Québécois have a strong ecological awareness and deserve to see their government acting as it should, as stewards of the territory of Québec.

Libellés : Environnement, Politique, Québec

par Borges à 11:02

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The workers of Québec are on the march! Les travailleurs québécois prennent le chemin!

A huge step forward has taken place today in the movement of Québécois workers. Québéc's 3 largest unions, along with 4 others, representing more than half a million members, have joined forces to form a Common Front to fight the Charest government for the rights of the public sector workes, who consistently make less than their private sector counterparts. Their objective: an 11.25 percent salary increase over the next 3 years.

The magnitude of this unification is immense. The people of Québec have suffered at the hands of the union in-fighting that has plagued the labour movement since its beginning. The only time the workers organisations stopped their peti battles was during the heroic and revolutionary Common Front of the early 1970's. They consistently critiscised the capitalist system and the Parti Québécois, however after the defeat of the Common Front, most of that revolutionary sentiment was swamped up by the bourgeois PQ, and directed towards a nationalist goal.

One can only hope that this is the beginning of the end of the divisions that have made the labour movement of Québec so powerless in the face of extreme advances against the workers by the capitalists and their friends in the government. The last Common Front signaled the most revolutionary period in the history of Québec. On peut rêver...

En français:

Une grande gestion progressive s'y est passé dans le mouvement ouvrière au Québec. Les trois plus grands syndicats québécois, et quatre autres, qui représentent ensemble presque un demi-million travailleurs, se sont unis pour former un Front Commun pour lutter le gouvernement de M. Charest pour les droits des travailleurs de l'état, qui gagne moins que leurs compatriotes dans le secteur privé. Le but: Une hausse de 11.25 percent de salaire sur les trois ans suivants.

La magnitude de cette unification est immense. Le peuple du Québec ont souffrent à cause des batailles entre les grands syndicats qui a harcelé le mouvement laborieuse depuis sa naissance. La seule occasion quand les organisations des travailleurs se sont stoppés avec leurs petits disputes était avec la formation du Front Commun héroique et révolutionnaire des années 70. Le Front a critiqué systématiquement le système capitaliste et le Parti Québécois. Or, après la défaite du Front Commun, la plupart du sentiment révolutionnaire a été pris par le PQ bourgeois, et le dirigé vers un but nationaliste.

On peut espérer que ceci est le commencement de la fin des divisions qui ont fait le mouvement travailliste du Québec tellement impuissant à face des attaques belligérants contre les travailleurs par les capitalistes et leurs amis dans le gouvernement. Le dernier Front Commun a marqué la période la plus révolutionnaire à travers l'histoire du Québec, on peut rêver que c'est un nouveau début.

Mais la chose plus la plus important maintenant pour les travailleurs et leurs organisations, est l'affiliation à Québec Solidaire, le seul parti dans le cadre politique du Québec qui représente les intérêts de la classe ouvrière, et pas les capitalistes et petits-bourgeois comme le PQ. Québec Solidaire est dans un stage formative, mais il peut bel et bien diriger le mouvement ouvrière vers la victoire, avec un leadership correct et une conscience de classe claire.

Libellés : Québec

par Borges à 13:21

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La langue, les lois, et les divisions qu'ils font

À travers l'histoire du Québec, il exista toujours un débat à propos du futur du français, sa primauté dans la société, et la francisation des nouveaux arrivants. Après la révolution démocratique nationale des années 60, qui s'appelait tranquille, les québécois se sont dirigés vers une politique linguistique forte, qui servait à protéger la langue, mais aussi vers une politique qui a servi pour plus diviser les citoyens du Québec sur les lignes ethno-linguistiques et s'enrichir les exploiteurs.

Le désir des québécois pour être maitres chez-nous a été reflété dans la politique linguistique depuis ces grands changements aux fondements de la société. Les demandes pour promouvoir le français d'un état opprimé par la dominance d'anglais dans l'économie et société en général, à une langue brillante et puissante, allaient au cœur de l'épreuve nationale des québécois.

Ce n'est pas étonnant. La langue est, normalement, une caractéristique intégral du concept d'une nation. Elle unifie les gens avec une bonde commune, elle leur donne une identité distinctive. Elle devient une partie sacrée de la conscience nationale. Mais il faut, surtout au Québec, qu'on se souvienne qu'aucune langue doit avoir hégémonie sur l'autre, il s'agit comme une autre forme de l'oppression ethnique. Pour accepter la dominance d'une communauté linguistique sur l'autre est impensable, et inacceptable.

La Charte de la langue française a fait plaisir les québécois tel qu'il soit un empêchement à la dominance de l'anglais au Québec. Le travail, l'état, le commerce, et toutes les institutions publiques ont été transformées et francisés très rapidement, et l'influence du français s'est répandu partout la province et à toutes les communautés, soient-ils anglophones, allophones, autochtones, et surtout francophones. La Charte a donné beaucoup aux francophones qui font une majorité puissante au Québec, il leur a donné les outils pour bâtir une société dans leur propre langue.

L'épanouissement du français au beau pays est une étape progressive vers la libération nationale, il faut que les langues des opprimés soient protégés et promu chez-eux, c'est une partie inaliénable de leur culture et leur vie. Mais la dominance du français au Québec sert une autre but, celui des capitalistes.

La primauté de la langue française au Québec doit être considéré d'un point de vu prolétaire. Qui est servi par la dominance du français, qui bénéfice vraiment de cette croissance du français au Québec? Elle est la bourgeoisie québécoise surtout, bien-sûr. Les capitalistes doivent avoir leur propre marché pour en distribuer leurs produits, et la dominance de leur langue et celle des consommateurs, soit, pour les exploiteurs, une chose très chouette. Il signifie que maintenant que la langue française domine la société, la bourgeoisie native peut prendre un rôle plus puissant dans le marché, l'économie, et la politique.

Ce n'est pas à dire qu'on ne soutient pas la primauté du français au Québec, étant la langue majoritaire. Mais le nationalisme qui le français évoque, les divisions linguistiques qui sont renforcées par tels lois, ne sont que réactionnaires. Les québécoises du tout sorte doivent regarder au delà des divisions linguistiques et voir les choses similaires que tous les travailleurs du Canada, et le monde, partagent: l'oppression des capitalistes.

Libellés : la langue, Québec

par Borges à 15:03

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Canada to Harper: «Show me the money!»

In the midst of the most severe economic crisis for generations, in the face of rising unemployment, homelessness, poverty, and insecurity, the Harper administration is playing political games with our money. In January, the Conservative government promised Canada a massive investment in the country's crumbling infrastructure (parlons pas des autoroutes québécoises!) which was meant to improve lives and provide jobs when the nation needs it the most.

Yet somehow, the flow of federal money being poured out on roads, trains, etc. has yet to actually materialise. We were promised 4 billion dollars, and yet almost none of it has been seen. The Transport Minister claims that the government is working «10 times faster» than normal in order to get the dollars circulating, but somehow, 5 months after the announcment for funding, only 2 projects have seen actual cheques from the government.

Does anyone know why the government is acting so slow to implement its policies? Were I Prime Minister, I would want to be seen to be doing everything possible to create jobs and aleviate the suffering that the crisis causes, and infrastructure investment is a basic tenet of capitalist reformism in these times. This isn't happening, for whatever reason.

Libellés : Conservatives, Pauvreté et développement, ROC

par Borges à 10:04

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Québec Liberals under fire over investment funds

The Liberal Party of Québec has demonstrated again, in a seemingly unending string of compromising incidents, in the face of an unrelenting economic crisis, that it, among the other major parties in the National Assembly, is inept to lead the country. Jean Charest's Liberals have let their ethics run wild at the expense of their credibility in the eyes of the québécoise nation. And through it all, the Québécois Liberals have continued to remain muted on the issues raised, instead resorting to the use of the Chambers of Commerce Federation of Québec to defend them and their disgraced investment scheme, FIER (Regional Economic Intervention Funds).

The issue at the heart of matter is the administration of the FIER funds and their actual capacity to cause economic regeneration in their specified areas. It seems that several of the Liberal Party's closest friends have made generous use of the Québec governments promise to match each dollar invested with a further 2.50$, up to 10M$. It has been revealed that two businessmen, Pietro Perrino and Valier Boivin, have together administered nearly 10 different companies who benefited from the scheme. Even more shocking is the admittance that many of these funds, including in the Estrie where this figure stands at 70%, go outside of their designated region, often to Montréal or other areas of more lucrative development, and some even go out of Québec!

The adéquiste and péquiste deputies have had a field day with these discrepencies in the program, attacking the government over their ineptness to administer these funds properly, and furthermore to respond to the string of allegations regarding their ethical etiquette, after the signing of a contract by former Health Minister Philip Couillard with an health investment fund just after his resignation, along with further allegations of favouratism and lobbying among the PLQ. Only time will tell what the future is for the Liberal party of Québec and its governing administration...

Libellés : Libéraux, Québec

par Borges à 11:15

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Québec Solidaire veut dépasser le capitalisme?

Sur la fête internationale de travailleurs, Québec Solidaire a dévoilé son nouveau manifeste, titré «Pour sortir de la crise: Dépasser le capitalisme?», mais il n'est pas progressif de la façon dont le titre parait. Contenu dans le manifeste il y a beaucoup de propositions et beaux sentiments, phrases doux qui essaient de critiquer le capitalisme et ses effets, mais en fait le manifeste ne dépassent rien. Il parle de chercher un système alternatif, mais ne propose pas changements fondamentaux pour la société.

La crise du capitalisme est un signe de la nature passée du système, la bourgeoisie n'est qu'une entrave sur le progrès humain. L'impérialisme est rampant, la pauvreté accroît chaque jour pendant que milliers d'enfants meurent chaque nuit à cause de la faim et les maladies évitables. La preuve est claire pour voir, si les yeux sont ouverts.

Libellés : Pauvreté et développement, Québec Solidaire, Socialisme

par Borges à 11:09

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Liberals play to the working class, the Conservatives just won't...

Newly crowned leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, in the face of the worsening economic crisis, has called on the government to reduce the threshold for unemployment benefits for Canadian workers and their families. The Conservatives have whole-heartedly rejected this proposal, which aims to decrease the number of hours worked in order to qualify, as well as putting that figure at a common national level.

The proposal asks for a lower threshold of 360 hours worked to be able to qualify for employment insurance, for all regions of Canada, as opposed to the current system which sets the limit between 420-700 hours depending on the unemployment rate of the particular area . This call reflects the growing number of demands for EI, up 20% by some accounts, as well as an increasing trend among employers to cut workers hours.

The Conservative rejection is simply a reaffirmation of their values. They don't even pretend to care about workers and their families, let alone those worst hit by the economic crisis that they and their capitalist friends have helped create. The Conservative government is already dealing with a debt level not seen for years in Canada, they can hardly afford to make concessions to the masses when they have banks to save and a financial system to prop up!

Libellés : Conservatives, Libéraux, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 11:32

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The Bumbling Gordon Brown

Just weeks after his triumphant return from the G-20 summit on the economic crisis, having successfully led the team of leaders to a capitalist compromise on how to deal with the recession, Gordon Brown has been humiliated both at home and abroad, by those close to him, as well as his most staunch enemies.

The Labour Minister for Communities Hazel Blears has publicly attacked the government for their conduct, though still affirming that the Prime Minister is the right man for the job. Others have been far more critical of Superman Brown, including a large number of backbenchers who have completely defied the Labour whip by voting for a Liberal Democrat bill which would allow for the freer settlement of the Gurkha (Nepalese soldiers fighting for the Crown) in the United Kingdom. And by the end of the week all hopes for a settlement over the huge issue of MPs expenses was all but torn asunder by the Opposition and the Labour backbenches.

And that is just the home front. Brown recently received a tongue-lashing from the Polish Prime Minister on economics, as well as being stood up at a high level press conference with Pakistani President Zardari. This coming after the rousing speech made against Brown's fiscal policy in the European Parliament by the British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, the video of which soon became viral, making its way around the world.

As if this were not enough, former Home Secretary for the Labour government Charles Clarke has openly declared that recent cock-ups by the government make him «ashamed» to be a Labour MP. There is talk of replacing Brown with his Health Secretary Alan Johnson. This not to mention the possible defection of 12 Labour MPs to the Liberal Democrats, should the government lose their confidence with further incompetence.

Current polls give the Tories a 100 plus seat lead in the Mother of All Parliaments should the election be held tomorrow (note that Brown has just about 12 months to call a general election). The upcoming European Elections will largely be a referendum on the state of UK politics at the present time, rather than anything to do with the EU and its management. Should Brown suffer an even more humiliating defeat at this time, he will have no choice but to step down...or be pushed.

Libellés : G.B., Politique

par Borges à 10:38

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Un autre chemin pour le Québec, vers une vrai indépendance

L’histoire du Québec en est une d’oppression nationale et économique. Québec s’est occupé depuis la Révolution tranquille avec deux grandes luttes historiques: la bataille des classe et celle pour la libération nationale.

Le Québec est une société fragmentée, mais pas dans le sens qui est normalement revendu par les nationalistes ou fédéralistes doux. Le Québec est un pays divisé entre les capitalistes et leurs extensions dans la forme du gouvernement, soit-il libéral ou péquiste et les travailleurs québécois, sans égard de leur origine, qui produisent la richesse du pays.

Le rêve d’un Québec libre reste encore dans l’esprit des indépendantistes qui compte sur le nationalisme pour régler les problèmes de la nation: le chômage, la pauvreté, le manque de logements abordables, l’exclusion sociale, les services sociaux et de santé, etc. Mais le fait est que ces problèmes sont ceux du capitalisme et n’ont rien à voir avec la Confédération canadienne. Rompre avec le reste du Canada dans un contexte capitaliste est invraisemblable, car cela ne changerait rien à la base de cette société, c’est-à-dire l’économie.

Le Québec a beaucoup souffert pendant son histoire aux mains d’exploiteurs étrangers, mais on doit se souvenir que la Nouvelle-France a exploité les habitants canadiens avant la conquête et a donné rapidement ses compatriotes aux Britanniques pour mieux les oppresser. 200 ans depuis cet évènement, sous l’ombre de la Révolution tranquille, une nouvelle classe d’exploiteurs est revenue au Québec: le bourgeois et le petit bourgeois québécois. Ils sont les mêmes bêtes féroces, mais avec un rugissement français…

La nouvelle classe capitaliste québécoise, depuis les grandes émeutes de la révolution québécoise de 1972, a réussi à réclamer la lutte contre l’oppression économique pour une lutte contre l’oppression nationale. Rien ne pourrait servir mieux leurs intérêts. Après une décennie de concessions de la classe ouvrière, les capitalistes québécois en ont eu marre de la lutte des classes, et sont retournés à une situation plus normale.

Donc, le PQ s’est transformé d’un parti purement nationaliste vers un parti qui essaie de compter sur la gauche québécoise pour prétendre qu’ils se sont occupés des problèmes quotidiens des travailleurs. Le rêve pour une société équitable a été fusé avec la lutte pour un pays indépendant.

Presque 40 ans plus tard, le PQ domine toujours la gauche québécoise, corrompt la lutte des classes pour un «nationalisme progressiste». Cela veut dire un projet indépendantiste qui se comporte comme un parti de gauche quand en fait il ne représente rien d’autre qu’une continuation de la même exploitation de la classe ouvrière.

En réalité le Québec ne pourra jamais être indépendant dans un contexte capitaliste, il sera toujours dépendant des impérialistes étrangers. Le Québec ne sera libre que lorsqu’il se libérera des chaînes du capitalisme.

Libellés : La question nationale, Québec

par Borges à 19:55

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Beyond nationalism: A true independence for Québec

The history of Québec is one of national oppression and subjugation of the working class to the interests of the British, then Canadian, and finally Québécois exploiting classes. The two narratives have often subverted one another, as the pendulum swings from ferocious class war to an equally ferocious struggle for national liberation, eventually settling somewhere in the middle. The important thing to remember is that the two are inextricably linked.

The future of Québec, independent, sovereign, and radiant, depends not on the breaking of the bonds of the Confederation, but on the destruction of the chains of exploitation. It is a simplistic overstatement to claim that the fight for an independent Québec must come first and foremost in the minds and souls of the Québécois people, for an independent Québec in a capitalist context simply means an even deeper exploitation of the Québécois by the native bourgeois as well as the foreign imperialists.

If Québec is now a semi-colony of Canada, it's independence would most certainly mean the subordination of the nation to the interests and whims not only of the anglophone Canadian bourgeois, but even more so to the American companies and bosses. Québec would be ripe for exploitation by the larger imperialist nations of the world, and it would soon find that for all the talk of «Maîtres chez-nous» they will be just as oppressed as before. And let us take note as well that this is a globalised economy, the national bourgeois of Québec are tied by a thousand strings to their Canadian, American, and international counterparts. They can play no independent role, and they are the ones who would be leading this new Québécois paradise.

Apart from the threat of further foreign domination, the Québécois would be right to fear their home grown tycoons and corporations, who have nothing more than profit as their highest concern. Without the generous contributions of the Canadian taxpayers, the Québécois state would be forced to shoulder the burden of services and finance squarely on the shoulders of the workers.

Donc, vivre, vivre, VIVRE, le Québec libre...libéré du capitalisme!

Libellés : La question nationale, Québec, Socialisme, Souverainistes

par Borges à 11:52

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Liberals stopped dead in their tracks by Ignatieff?

La Presse reports today that the Liberal Party of Canada seems to have stopped their climb in popularity on a national level (Québec not included apparently) due to the musings of the soon to be crowned leader of the party M. Michael Ignatieff MP. The issue seems to be tax increases to help offset the federal budget deficit, after the crisis runs its course.

M. Ignatieff was simply being realistic. The Liberal Party is a whole-hearted supporter of capitalism, and capitalism can't bear such extreme financial mismanagement as is reflected in the budget deficit. They want fiscal responsibility, and Ignatieff was simply reaffirming that his party is one which holds in high importance.

Tax hikes scare everyone, and should of course only be fairly distributed onto the shoulders of Corporate Canada, and not be made the burden of the Canadian workers. The Liberal Party of Canada needs to take a page out of the book of the National Democratic Party and start going after the companies of the country, although this seems to have done little to actually advance their chances in the last election.

Libellés : Libéraux, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 12:06

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