No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.
Whether the union apparatus is led by a career bureaucrat or a left-talking, purported “militant” like Mike Palecek, it has connived with management and surrendered to back-to-work laws.
CUPW’s record of isolating postal workers from the rest of the working class and sabotaging their struggles the moment they develop into a direct political confrontation with the government underscores that to take a single step forward in their contract struggle, postal workers must break politically and organizationally from the union bureaucracy’s suffocating straitjacket.
To fulfill its pledge to meet the NATO minimum spending target, the Trudeau government will have to double military spending to $60 billion per year.
Canada’s Liberal government–which is propped up in parliament by the trade union-sponsored New Democratic Party–is carrying out a massive rearmament program at the expense of the working class.
Canada’s Conservative government is giving itself sweeping new powers to intervene in contract negotiations at federally-owned Crown Corporations, so as to press for sweeping contract concessions.
The NDP has mounted its campaign against Chinese investment in Canada to convince the US ruling elite that they will find in it a reliable ally in their war preparations against China.
Canada’s social-democrats have responded to their unexpected success in the May 2011 federal election by lurching further right on every major political question.
Official Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair made a trip to Washington and New York last week to assure US business and political leaders that an NDP government would be a dependable ally of American imperialism.
The NDP’s attitude to the Quebec student strike exposes it as a supporter of the ruling class’ austerity measures.
Ottawa has recently deployed a navy frigate off the coast of Syria, instituted new sanctions against Iran, and negotiated closer military cooperation with Israel.
The Canadian Armed Forces is seeking to establish a worldwide network of bases to allow for the rapid deployment of military force in pursuit of Canada’s imperialist interests.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird secretly flew to Libya last week to meet with leaders of the Transitional National Council to justify waging war on Libya.
Even as Canada’s Conservative government and the corporate media crow about “economic recovery,” the latest jobless figures underscore the precarious situation facing young workers and students.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has signalled that his Conservative government will once again flout a court decision ordering it to seek the repatriation of Guantánamo Bay detainee and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr. The 22-year-old Khadr is the only citizen of a NATO country still held at the concentration camp.
Canada’s Conservative government has repeatedly introduced obstacles to Abousfian Abdelrazik returning home, in the process redefining the rights of Canadian citizenship and inadvertently raising questions about Canada’s complicity in torture.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Canadian Armed Forces’ base in Kandahar and other CAF positions in southern Afghanistan for ten hours last Thursday.
As many as one in every ten Canadians who participate in the October 14 federal election will cast their vote for the Green Party, or at least so claim the opinion polls.
Recently released Canadian government documents and video footage have provided fresh evidence that Canadian citizen Omar Khadr has been abused and tortured by the US military while under detention in the US’s government’s Guantánamo Bay concentration camp.
Over the strenuous objections of the Canadian government, the country’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Ottawa must turn over to the legal defence team representing Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen and Guantánamo Bay detainee, some of the Crown documents that pertain to his case.
