While Not A Return To Austerity, The Liberal’s COVID Budget Mostly Falls Short
The Liberals’ first COVID budget is not a return to austerity, but does not mark a clear break with the era of small government.
The Liberals’ first COVID budget is not a return to austerity, but does not mark a clear break with the era of small government.
To stay at their posts is to collaborate with the government in its social murder of Ontarians throughout the pandemic.
By breaking the strike at the Port of Montreal, the federal government is showing its hand: It’s here for them, not you.
In the midst of a pandemic, Ford has empowered landlords and police to impose greater discipline and hardship on working-class people.
Ford’s half-assed breakdown is emblematic of so much of the theatre of his government’s pandemic response.
Funding federal pharmacare, enacting a wealth tax and ensuring homes are more affordable were all measures the Liberals should have taken.
Successive Conservative and Liberal governments have underfunded higher education in Ontario for decades, while shifting more and more costs onto students.
ONDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s supposed plan to save Ontario is wholly inadequate for this catastrophic moment.
Ford laughs while his policies kill us, and has the guts to complain that we aren’t happy about being led to our deaths.