Communist Candidates Fight for Policies to Put People’s Needs Before Corporate Greed
This provincial election is an important one for working people. Federal and provincial austerity policies are driving Ontario into another deep economic crisis. There is a huge gap between the rich and the rest. Poverty is on the rise and unemployment remains staggeringly high. Austerity policies are the order of the day for all the parties in the Legislature. That’s why the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)’s eleven candidates are gaining traction with voters.
“The Liberals sorry record starts with their broken promises to reverse the destructive legacy of the last Tory government, while in fact they’ve continued down the same pro-corporate path of privatization and belt-tightening,” said Elizabeth Rowley, Provincial leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario).
While many Ontarians are justifiably angry with the Liberals, the main danger is the possible election of a Tim Hudak Conservative Government. “Their agenda is no secret, and it starts with 100,000 lay-offs in the public sector, slashing wages, demolishing public services, healthcare and education, smashing labour and democratic rights and turning the clock back 75 years,” stated Rowley.
Meanwhile the NDP has raced to the right on issues such as the minimum wage, taxation and government spending.
The Communist Party is offering a fundamentally different set of policies “to deliver an agenda that serves people’s needs and curbs corporate greed”.
Rowley described the Communist election campaign as providing an alternative that many people are responding warmly to: “We need a real break with austerity governments in order to create good jobs and raise wages and living standards for working people in Ontario. We need MPPs who will join with unions and people’s movements and fight to curb corporate power and implement a progressive agenda. Another Ontario is possible and urgently needed!”.
The Communist Party candidates will fight for a People’s Agenda for Ontario:
• Good jobs, better pensions, a livable minimum wage
• An industrial and manufacturing strategy for Ontario
• Affordable housing and rent controls
• Quality public services, healthcare and hospitals
• One universal, quality, secular education system
• A quality, affordable public childcare system
• A healthy, sustainable environment
• Public auto insurance & improved public transit
• Public power and lower rates
• Strong labour, democratic and equality rights
• Democratic electoral reform
• Tax relief for working people – tax corporations and the wealthy
Click here for the full platform.
The Communist Party is running 11 candidates in Ontario:
Brampton Springdale – Elizabeth Hill
Guelph – Juanita Burnett
Hamilton Centre – Bob Mann
London North Centre – Dave McKee
Ottawa Centre – Larry Wasslen
Ottawa South – Espoir Manirambona
St. Catharines – Saleh Waziruddin
Toronto Centre – Drew Garvie
Toronto Danforth – Elizabeth Rowley
Davenport – Mariam Ahmad
Don Valley West – Dimitrios (Jim) Kabitsis
For more information email: info@communistpartyontario.ca or call 416 469 2446
