Launching as the "People's Alternative for Ontario" under the slogan "Vote to Put People and Planet Before Profit", the Communist Party of Canada has begun its election campaign in the province of Ontario.
The party is running seven candidates including leader Drew Garvie in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. (See the end of the piece for a full list.)
Saying that working people in Ontario cannot afford any more pro-corporate policies at Queen’s Park, their launch statement notes that the "Ford government has enriched corporate developers, landlords, and retail and grocery monopolies while dismantling the protections and supports that working Ontarians rely on. While corporations rake in record profits, workers are left struggling with skyrocketing rents, suppressed wages, and gutted public healthcare, education and social services."
While calling for the defeat of the Ford government, they note that "replacing them with the Liberals, New Democrats, or Greens will not defeat the corporate agenda. The Liberals continue to prioritize corporate interests, promising only a gentler version of austerity. The Greens’ emphasis on “green capitalism” offers market-driven solutions, ignoring the fact that the climate crisis can’t be solved within the same system causing it. While many working people support the NDP, it is increasingly focused more on becoming a "responsible" alternative to the Liberals than on confronting corporate power."
Making it clear that the policies needed cannot be achieved at the ballot box, voting Communist still "sends a clear message that Ontarians demand transformative change."
"To overcome the crises we face, we must challenge capitalism itself. Only socialism can create a society where people and the planet are prioritized over profit – a world without poverty and war, where working people democratically own and control the economy. Socialism is urgently necessary and voting Communist helps build the movement for socialism."
Candidate list:
Davenport
DAVE MCKEE
Hamilton East-Stoney Creek
DREW GARVIE
Humber River-Black Creek
JEANNE MCGUIRE
Ottawa Centre
CASHTON PERRY
Parkdale-High Park
RIMMY RIARH
Scarborough-Rouge Park
WAI KIAT TANG
Windsor-Tecumseh
KYLE FORD
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