Neoliberalism is destroying Canada: Former NDP leader

Neoliberalism is destroying Canada: Former NDP leader

Postby Oscar » Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:41 pm

Neoliberalism is destroying Canada: Former NDP leader

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By: Justin Brake | October 14, 2015

Ed Finn, Newfoundland’s first NDP leader, sat down with The Independent to discuss the biggest challenge facing Canada today — the one nobody’s talking about in the lead-up to the federal election.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s first NDP leader says the conversation that should be unfolding in the lead-up to the federal election isn’t happening.

Ed Finn told The Independent in a recent interview that Canadians should be discussing the fundamental failures of Canada’s democratic institutions and the economic system that has led to the global economic, environmental and climate crises.

Corporate influence on federal politics, the country’s flawed electoral system, and the staunch pursuit of a political and economic ideology since the 1980s that has threatened some of Canada’s greatest political achievements, like universal health care, while exacerbating inequality and eroding the state of Canada’s democracy, he said, are all topics that should be on the table at leaders’ debates and in public discourse if Canada is to begin moving toward a brighter future.

“Canada has been in decline as a nation socially, environmentally and politically since the 1980s; that’s when both Conservative and Liberal parties dumped the Keynesian system based on governing in the public interest [and] replaced it with a neoliberal system of governing in the interest of wealthy and big business elites — a system that unfortunately has prevailed ever since,” the 89-year-old veteran journalist told The Independent during an interview at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ head office in Ottawa, where he recently retired as editor of the non-profit think tank’s monthly magazine, the CCPA Monitor.

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