Canadian MP Niki Ashton tells Paul Jay both the NDP and the Liberals have been guilty of making progressive promises during election campaigns and legislating from the center-right once in power
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Just another SYRIZA
Can we finally put that nonsense right wing talking point about third party spoilers to bed already. Those people probably won't vote at all for either of the parties if there wasn't an alternative. That's only used by conservative establishment democrats to poo poo the idea of an alternative to voting for wall street and the big banks.
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Maybe the New Democratic Party may wish to rethink its name. Maybe Niki Ashton should reflect on the Clinton and Gore "New" Democrats and the "Third Way" where their "Democratic Leadership Council" was directly funded by the Kochs and Wall Street resulting in the devastation of Social Security, NAFTA, and the Deregulation of Wall Street. Maybe Niki Ashton should consider the result of "New" Labor in Britain where Tony Blair was installed by the oligarch minions in the City of London resulting in the British devastation of Social Security and an assault on the working class through Neoliberalism as well as the British involvement in the Anglo-American imperial wars that killed a million Iraqis. Maybe Niki Ashton should consider removing the "New" from the name and considering an alternative? When it comes to naming progressive movements, the word "New" is a pejorative.
NDP has some real beauties… BUT has some real cunt's too.
the name of this one does not go with the second clip. i dug deep and found that they are actually part one and two but both have different identifiers. fix this and more people can watch both. just a suggestion.
I really wish the NDP were led by someone like Niki who has integrity and substance. Elizabeth May is the only other leader in Canada with these qualities. The current NDP leader will be dumped after the next election. We need to choose more wisely next time.
I don't disagree with a lot of stances the federal NDP has taken but this woman represents the extremes the NDP seem to have embraced. Luckily the Alberta NDP recognize the foolishness and stupidity coming out of the NDP and essentially told them to shove it.
9:54 Denver billionaire Pat Broe (no Wikipedia page), and his Omnitrax company. Broe Group runs Crestone Peak Resources (colorado-based oil gas extraction operation) for investor CPPIB (Canada pension plan investment board)
The Liberal "public relations agenda" is to come down hard in favor of identity politics censorship (ye shall use trans pronouns chosen by transgender students at all times OR ELSE), open-door immigration, etc., as pink fig leaves over economic policies that benefit Big Capital. Not he first time Liberals have done this, but the postmodern pseudo-left gives them big handles to do it. And the NDP differs only that it wants … more of this, as Ashton shows here.
Love Niki. Please talk about support for worker cooperatives too. I've been disappointed by the total lack of conversation the NDP has had around them, even as the movement has swelled internationally.
But Niki, what about the NDP equity doctrine? Aren't you happy with all their Marxist policies, like compelled speech? I'm guessing you don't think they go far enough.
the only partys that best represent truly canadain values have always been liberal and new democrats…a few conservatives want to beleive that we should live in the past like old granpas,,,not progressive at all.the ontario conservatives have the nerve to call themselves the progressive conservatives,,,this couldnt be further from the truth..
Naomi Klein received funding for her husband to do a video on her from The Ford Foundation.
She is socialist, and socialists do not support 100% private carbon tax dividends. It's that simple.
They want that money so they can give it to their commie friends in the NGO Industrial Complex.
They are Poverty Pimps who live off the funding avails of poverty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GVbvoKNcoQ
Ask any socialist if they support 100% private carbon tax dividends and they will say no. If they don't say no, they will not unequivocally say yes. That's why the Yellow Jackets protested in Europe. This is why we have Trump.
Trudeau continued to sell weapons to the Sauds AFTER they threatened 9/11 in Canadians. And did absolutely nothing when Apartheid Israel intentionally shot a Canadian medic in both his knees.
Niki Ashton brought me back to supporting the NDP party, I hoped she would win the leadership in 2017, but didn’t. Now Canadians have the choice of three neoliberals for prime minister which will eventually lead us to fascism as people are looking for an alternative to rewarding the 1% for their hard work while punishing the 99% slackers are rewarded with more austerity.
Niki is the best federal politician Canadians have. She always stands with the people!
Canadas main problem is that they are unable to distinguish between Liberal and progressive many Canadians are fooled by Obama sorry I meant Trudeau. Canadas right wing parties are going populist to attack Trudeau Canadian left need to go progressive.
If you ever needed more reasons to NOT vote NDP, here they are .
I don't know how it is in Canada, but in the U.S., the New Democrats are Republicans masquerading as Democrats, i.e., the Clintons, Obama, and their followers. They are not to be trusted.
Niki Ashton. If you're reading this, please run for the leadership of the NDP again. You will have my full suport!
It's called Controlled Opposition much like what the ""real"" news has become. Sure they have a couple good people still on the payroll but they're just like the one good cop on the police force who's job it is is to be public relations presenting that good image so that bad cops can try to screw over people.
Community banks, public banks. Like in Sweden. Banks that are literally non profit.
State bank dear niki ashton…..take a big breath .
Canada is not a country its something else nobody knows what.
Soon as I hear one of these people say "justice and dignity" I know to run in the other direction. These terms are nonsense terms that mean nothing and are designed to conceal the full intentions of the people using them. They are platitude words that prey upon people who have little understanding of human history.
Bernie Sanders is a severe economic illiterate and extremely dangerous for just that reason.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ARE NEITHER SOCIAL NOR DEMOCRATIC. THEY ARE A CAPITALIST IMPLANT TO EXTERMINATE SOCIALISM WHICH WAS THE ONLY SAFEGUARD OF THE WORKING CLASS.
DEMOCRACY IS A MAGIC WORD IN THE MOUTH OF THE POWERFUL WHO UNITARILY CAN DETERMINE AT WILL, WHAT IS DEMOCRATIC AND WHAT IS NOT.
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Hold Bernie's neocon inspired, imperialist legacy accountable, shall we?
I feel like we can’t fight this system from the inside. It only feeds the monster. If we distance ourselves from it will producing a self sufficient life style we will successfully Starve this beast to death. Maybe “commune†like farms or localized food production while sharing knowledge in trades for responsible building and and clean energy. A decentralized form of governance and freedom.
"Hold the movement accountable?" Or, that leaders must be accountable to the movement? What we need is instant recall ability with respect to our representatives.
On a more fundamental level, the electoral system is part of state power and like it or not is controlled by the apparatus of the state. You are not going to elect you way to revolution.
Where's Part 2?
The NDP keep getting hit by the "ohhh how are they going to pay for it" or "oh the deficit we need to cut spending" nonsense. What they need to do is fight back against this by explaining what it means to own your own currency; have your own central bank and how money is created – They need shut down this talking point once and for all.