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Can Canada’s Left Survive Trump’s Second Term? (jacobin.com)
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The NDP helped build Canada’s welfare state. Now, under pressure from Donald Trump’s tariffs and a shifting political terrain, the party risks electoral annihilation as voters split between technocratic centrism and right-wing populism.

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[–] danielquinn 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In an election where the two leading parties are refusing to even acknowledge that genocide is being committed by a "friend" and ally, a country to which we continue to sell arms, I'd argue that the NDP's stance on Gaza is probably the only thing they've done right in this election. Your suggestion that Canada can't do anything is just plain wrong. We should, for example:

  • Stop sending Israelis weapons
  • Condemn their actions publicly
  • Close our embassy and kick theirs out of Canada
  • Organise and send peacekeepers to ensure that humanitarian aid gets through

I'm all for trying to build a "big tent" party with a diversity of views, but that should stop at genocide enablers and apologists.

[–] Rentlar 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's a sound plan IMO and I'm in support of doing all of that. We can act in this way, but during the campaign the parties have been pressed to make a unilateral declaration on how the state will be organized, which is not within their capability.

Also note that Canada has already paid a toll with our aid workers being killed by Israeli forces, so we still have to keep that in mind as we proceed.

Party leaders can indicate their ideal goals, but there's nothing any of the leaders can promise about the fate of Palestine itself, or whether it is free and democratic, or if a despot gets installed, since it relies on so many factors outside our control.

[–] danielquinn 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never said that they should make promises about Palestine's future. I only ask that anyone claiming to want to lead our country have the integrity to at least recognise that a genocide is being conducted, and that we are facilitating it.

[–] Rentlar 2 points 2 days ago

No major disagreement from me.