Job & Economic Justice – to reverse the de-industrialization of Ontario, secure more well-paid, unionized jobs, and raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. A future for youth – We need to make education a right, not a priveledge . Student debt is out of control and Ontario has the second highest tuition fees in the country. First year student are entering Ontario universities with never-before-seen tuition levels. Ultimately, a comprehensive funding formula needs to be put in place to make higher education free, and public schools need the necessary resources to prepare students for higher education, regardless of whether or not they live in a wealthy neighbourhood. Peace & Disarmament – I think this really IS a provincial issue… we need a legislature in Queen’s Park that’s willing to tell Ottawa to “Get out of Afghanistan Now!”; to cut military spending by 50\%; and to ban military recruitment from our schools and campuses. This is a complicated question – I think that the increase in funding for both health and public education were probably the most important accomplishments of the McGinty government in trying to reverse the extreme damage wrought by the previous Harris Conservative government to these vital services. On the other hand, McGinty and the Liberals have continued to concede to the pressures to privatize healthcare through the expansion of P3 hospitals (under another name); they have also failed to introduce a comprehensive needs-based funding formula for our schools. Actually, the ideas of socialism are making a comeback in countries all around the world, as more and more working people feel the impact of spreading poverty and increasing social disparity as a result of neoliberalism and so-called “globalization” policies. Look at what is happening in Venezuela, in Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries in Latin America. Even in European Communist Parties like the Greek and Portuguese CPs are growing again. I think the most important question in politics, as in life itself, is being true to one’s own principles, and acting with complete integrity. It is sad that self-serving and corrupt individuals have sullied political life so much, that people are rightfully sceptical about politicians in general. But the Communist Party really is a party of a different type. We are frank and upfront. What-you-see-is-what-you-get. I am running to bring our issues to the forefront, and hopefully to build the workers’ and people’s movements in the process.
Job & Economic Justice – to reverse the de-industrialization of Ontario, secure more well-paid, unionized jobs, and raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. A future for youth – We need to make education a right, not a privilege . Student debt is out of control and Ontario has the second highest tuition fees in the country. First year student are entering Ontario universities with never-before-seen tuition levels. Ultimately, a comprehensive funding formula needs to be put in place to make higher education free, and public schools need the necessary resources to prepare students for higher education, regardless of whether or not they live in a wealthy neighbourhood. Peace & Disarmament – I think this really is a provincial issue… we need a legislature at Queen’s Park that’s willing to tell Ottawa to “Get out of Afghanistan Now!”; to cut military spending by 50\%; and to ban military recruitment from our schools and campuses. This is a complicated question – I think that the increase in funding for both health and public education were probably the most important accomplishments of the McGuinty government in trying to reverse the extreme damage wrought by the previous Harris Conservative government to these vital services. On the other hand, McGuinty and the Liberals have continued to concede to the pressures to privatize healthcare through the expansion of P3 hospitals (under another name); they have also failed to introduce a comprehensive needs-based funding formula for our schools. Actually, the ideas of socialism are making a comeback in countries all around the world, as more and more working people feel the impact of spreading poverty and increasing social disparity as a result of neo-liberalism and so-called “globalization” policies. Look at what is happening in Venezuela, in Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries in Latin America. Even in European Communist Parties like the Greek and Portuguese CPs are growing again. I think the most important question in politics, as in life itself, is being true to one’s own principles, and acting with complete integrity. It is sad that self-serving and corrupt individuals have sullied political life so much, that people are rightfully skeptical about politicians in general. But the Communist Party really is a party of a different type. We are frank and upfront. What-you-see-is-what-you-get. I am running to bring our issues to the forefront, and hopefully to build the workers’ and people’s movements in the process.
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