Almost every home in Canada has been impacted by the affordability crisis. Many of us are struggling to keep a roof over our heads and food on our tables. And while the world insists on moving on, some of us have never recovered from the pandemic, and too many remain uncertain about the future.
We learned two major lessons from the pandemic. First, we found that even in hard times, corporations will not hesitate to take wealth and well-being from our communities to increase their profits. Second, we found that we can keep each other healthy when we take care together, we can save jobs and business through targeted public spending, and we can win public programs like dental care and pharmacare when we set goals together.
Our collective effort in a time of crisis showed that this country is far from “broken.” But conservative politicians want you to believe otherwise. They offer empty promises and seek to distract us by creating “enemies.
” Instead of solving people’s real problems, they want to divide our communities, undermine our democracy and weaken the public services that we rely on. Instead of long-term solutions, they offer tax cuts. But tax cuts won’t shorten the wait times in the emergency room, won’t help kids succeed in school, and won’t help care for an aging parent.
Tax cuts will only enrich the wealthiest one per cent while undermining our hard-won public services. Canadians have a better alternative — built on a vision of shared values and prosp.
