None of the parties running in the election offers a way forward for workers seeking to fight Trump’s threatened annexation of Canada, oppose rearmament and imperialist war, defend their jobs and living conditions, and reject the drive towards authoritarian forms of rule.
Whether Carney, campaigning under the slogan “Canada Strong,” or Poilievre, the champion of “Canada First,” emerges as prime minister after the coming election, the working class will rapidly be plunged into convulsive social struggles.
Trump’s tariffs will roil the North American economy, with workers in all three countries bearing the brunt in the form of mass layoffs and punishing price hikes.
If the opposition parties have been unable to differentiate themselves from Doug Ford, the province’s hard-right, Trump wannabee Tory premier, it is because the union-sponsored NDP, the Liberals and Greens stand for the same thing—upholding the interests of Canadian capital.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told last Friday’s emergency “national economic summit” that US President Donald Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to annex Canada is a “real thing.”
Workers in the US, Canada and Mexico must emphatically oppose all attempts to corral them behind their respective ruling classes and governments in the developing trade war.
The impending Canada-US trade war is a reactionary conflict between rival imperialist powers that will be waged at the expense of workers on both sides of the border.
Canada’s political leaders have responded to Trump’s threats to use “economic force” to transform Canada into the US’s 51st state with doubled-down pledges of fealty to the Canada-US military-strategic partnership, trade war threats of their own, and bellicose nationalism.
Trudeau’s resignation is part of a violent lurch of bourgeois politics to the right around the world. The rival imperialist ruling classes are restructuring politics in accordance with the oligarchical character of contemporary capitalist society and their drive to repartition the world through global war.
Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership and his Liberal government hang by a thread after his Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from the cabinet Monday morning in a manner calculated to inflict maximum political damage.
Tehran is signaling its readiness to bargain with Trump, even as he makes clear that he intends to deal with Iran even more ruthlessly than during his first term, and that he will do so working in the closest concert with Israel, which is already waging war against Iran in all but name.
Were Trump to make good on these trade war threats, it would roil the North American and world economy, to say nothing of dramatically intensifying US imperialism’s strategic offensive against China, which threatens at any point to explode into all-out war.
On the very first day the majority-JVP/NPP parliament was convened, the new government jettisoned its election pledge to renegotiate the country’s bailout agreement with the IMF to protect the most vulnerable.
As a result of huge cuts to the number of new permanent and temporary residents and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers, Canada’s population will fall for the first time ever.
The attack—far and away the biggest Israeli military strike ever launched against Iran—represents a major provocation and escalation of Israel’s war throughout the Middle East.
Diplomatic relations between Canada and India have almost entirely broken down after Ottawa presented New Delhi with what it called “clear and compelling” evidence that Indian government officials and intelligence agents have colluded with criminal gangs to carry out a campaign of intimidation and murder on Canadian soil.
The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major international event that warrants careful examination.
Canada has been swept by a wave of militant worker struggles and mass anti-Gaza genocide protests, but in the absence of the working class mounting an independent political challenge to the Trudeau government, the field has been left open for the Conservatives and other reactionary forces to exploit mounting social anger.
Were the JVP/NPP to come to power, it would rapidly come into open and violent conflict with the working class, using communalist incitement and the security forces, with whom it has long colluded, to divide and suppress the working class.
The NDP’s new oppositional posture is aimed at repositioning the social democrats and their trade union allies so they can more effectively perform their essential function for the ruling class—suppressing the class struggle and acting as political safety valves—under conditions of intensifying global capitalist crisis.
