Ontario: Fighting Austerity -- CP speaking tour

[blake 3:17]

I'm going to the Toronto event. A Quebec student activist and QS candidate will be speaking as well.


Fight Austerity! For a People's Recovery!

Ontario CPC Leader Speaking Tour Dates

Ontario Communist Party leader, Elizabeth Rowley, is touring the province to speak about the rising fight against austerity.

Come to one of the events below, to hear about the Communist Party's "10-Point Prescription for a People's Recovery" and to discuss how to build the fightback!

Toronto
Sunday, October 14 - 2 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Room 5-260
info: [email protected], or 416-469-2446

St. Catharines
Tuesday October 16 - 7 pm - St Catharines Public Library (downtown)
54 Church St, Rotary Room
info: [email protected]
Ottawa
Thursday October 18 - 7 pm - Bronson Centre
211 Bronson Avenue
info: 613-232-7108 (Stuart)

Hamilton
Monday October 22
details TBA

Guelph
Tuesday October 23 - 5:30 pm
University Centre, Room 442, University of Guelph

Brampton
Sunday October 28 - Doors Open 2:30 pm
Brampton Soccer Centre, 1495 Sandalwood Parkway East, Room #1
info: 647-818-6880 (Harinder)
Kitchener
Friday November 9

More tour dates and events to be announced!

[NewLeft]

Hey, if you have anymore info on the Hamilton details, I'd love to know. Thanks.

[Luc]

hey hey hey The CPC is coming to town. guess ill go to the event to see what they are like as i hate reading and never have anything to do.

Are u in the CPC Blake 3:17 or something?

[blake 3:17]

Hey, if you have anymore info on the Hamilton details, I'd love to know. Thanks.

I`d try the Toronto contact for Hamilton info.

And no I`m not in the CP, just on friendly terms. In the past few years it has been the only far left group in Toronto to grow numerically and there are a fair number of pretty interesting people in it.

The Canadian CP is well to the left of the CPUSA, and has recently been very critical of it. They`ve all been making the very sensible of integrating the various diasporic supporters in town. I`ve had some good contact with party members and sympathizers from El Salvador and the Punjab.

They are also trying to reach out to other people on the far left. The shit storm hitting Ontario really needs a principled united Left. Anyways...

[Luc]

I`d try the Toronto contact for Hamilton info.

And no I`m not in the CP, just on friendly terms. In the past few years it has been the only far left group in Toronto to grow numerically and there are a fair number of pretty interesting people in it.

The Canadian CP is well to the left of the CPUSA, and has recently been very critical of it. They`ve all been making the very sensible of integrating the various diasporic supporters in town. I`ve had some good contact with party members and sympathizers from El Salvador and the Punjab.

They are also trying to reach out to other people on the far left. The shit storm hitting Ontario really needs a principled united Left. Anyways...

I always thought Revolutionary Communist Party was big(ish) in Toronto? Oh well, wouldnt be the first thing i got wrong about Toronto :lol:

This is great news, the CPC sounds alot better than my original picture of it. :)

i gotta start reading again

edit: i just realised i got u totally mixed up with Blakes Baby sorry mate :(

[Positivist]

Would you mind posting the ten prerequisites to a peoples recovery when possible, through a link or otherwise? It sounds interesting.

[blake 3:17]

The 10 Point Program is here http://communistpartyontario.ca/10-Point_Prescription.html and below. Apologies for not posting the link previously.

I have no idea about the RCP here. I think there are two of them here with the same name but could be wrong. My impression is that they are very sectarian and pretty marginal but who knows?


10-Point Prescription for a People’s Recovery

1) Create Jobs
Build 200,000 units of affordable social housing in 4 years; enact rent controls
Restore and expand value-added manufacturing and secondary industry
Nationalize US Steel – and restart Canada’s domestic steel industry
Build a Canadian car that’s affordable, fuel-efficient, and environmentally sustainable
Rebuild crumbling provincial / municipal infrastructure
Invest in youth and social programs


2) Raise Wages and Incomes
Raise the minimum wage to $19
Raise pensions and reduce the voluntary pension age to 60
Introduce a guaranteed annual income – a living wage
Raise social assistance and disability above the poverty line
Expand Employment Insurance to cover all unemployed for the duration of unemployment at 90% of previous earnings
Introduce public auto insurance

3) Progressive Tax Reform
Rescind the HST and remove education from the property tax
Double the corporate income tax rate
Introduce wealth and inheritance taxes on estates over $750,000
Eliminate taxes on personal incomes under $40,000
Enact progressive tax reform based on ability to pay


4) Invest in Quality Public Services – Stop Privatization!

Health
Expand healthcare with denticare, vision care, pharmacare, and long-term care
Reverse delisting of services; eliminate health premiums and co-payments
Put doctors on salary; enforce the Canada Health Act
Prosecute ORNGE profiteers

Education
Enact a single, secular public school system open to all
Deliver a new, needs-based funding formula for public education
Eliminate tuition fees and increase funding to post-secondary education

Childcare
Build a provincial system of quality affordable and regulated public childcare

Sports, Culture and Recreation
Invest in amateur sports and recreation, TVO, public broadcasting, and democratic Canadian culture


5) A New Financial Deal for Cities
Deliver stable statutory transfers to cover the real costs of city services, or deliver new wealth-taxing powers to cities
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Adequately fund public transit, health, housing, childcare and social assistance
Return 50% of gas and road user taxes to cities


6) Enhance Food Security
Stop bank foreclosures of family farms; guarantee long-term, low-cost loans
Protect marketing boards, and roll back prices on food essentials
Abolish factory farming and genetically modified food
Protect farmland from urban sprawl, landfills
Fight for Canada’s food sovereignty


7) Public Ownership and Democratic Control of Energy
Develop publicly owned wind, solar, and thermal energy; phase out coal-fired and nuclear plants
Rebuild Ontario Hydro: public ownership and affordable public power


8) Just Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims
Press Harper to negotiate settlements now
Stop corporate, private or public development on lands with Aboriginal claims
Raise living standards: build housing, create jobs, provide quality education and healthcare on reserves and off
Recognize Aboriginal self-government and self-determination


9) Equality Rights for All
Put police under strict civilian control; reduce and restrict police weaponry
End racial profiling and enforce hate crimes laws
Stop criminalizing dissent and enforce the Human Rights Code
Support gay-straight alliances in Ontario schools
Enact transgendered rights; restore legal funding for court challenges
Fight to eliminate racist immigration and refugee laws


10) Curb Corporate Power - Strengthen Labour and Democratic Rights
Cancel CETA, NAFTA, TPPP and other pro-corporate trade agreements. Fair trade – not free trade – with the world.
Strengthen foreign investment laws; enact plant closure legislation with teeth
Enact anti-scab laws, bankruptcy protection for workers, and card check union certification for all workers
Protect free collective bargaining and the right to strike in Ontario
Enshrine a Labour Bill of Rights in the Constitution
Enact Proportional Representation and democratic electoral reform