Statements Ontario

This report was adopted at the meeting of the Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada on June 20th.

The Political Situation in Ontario

1. Since our last meeting, the political situation for the working class in Ontario has continued to intensify. The growing capitalist crisis of over-accumulation has led the most aggressive imperialist forces to abandon even the pretense of multilateralism. U.S. imperialism in particular is becoming much more aggressive in its use of tariffs, sanctions, and now, openly, military force to carve up the world.

After one of the longest summer breaks in recent history, the Ford government has returned to Queen’s Park with a plan for another short, intense session designed to limit debate, avoid public scrutiny, and ram through more of its  sweeping corporate agenda. This is their new, undemocratic playbook: govern while the legislature isn’t in session, then unleash a blitz of omnibus legislation to overwhelm resistance. It is a conscious method for accelerating the transfer of public wealth into private hands while minimizing democratic accountability.

The Political Situation: The Ford government’s corporate offensive The re-election of Doug Ford’s Conservative government in February 2025 represents a dangerous acceleration of corporate power over Ontario’s working class, Indigenous nations, public services, and democratic institutions. Ford’s victory was engineered through a campaign that cynically exploited fears of U.S. tariff Read more

Doug Ford’s re-election is a serious threat to workers, tenants, students, and all those struggling under Ontario’s deepening economic crisis. While Ford positioned himself as the “protector of Ontario” in the face of Trump’s tariff threats, his real record of corruption and privatization was obscured. This allowed him to secure Read more

The 32nd Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada was held online on November 23rd and 24th, 2024. The following political report was amended and adopted. The deepening crisis – internationally and across Canada The 32nd Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada is being convened as the Read more