Power or Service?



Are political parties about power or service?

The events of the last few weeks have made one thing abundantly clear. The red and blue parties aren’t in it for public service - they’re in it for the power. All they want is to be in power and they will say anything to get there.

The Liberals claimed that the provinces would never agree to the NDP Pharmacare plan and so they voted it down despite promising it during the last election. What are they really saying? They are saying that we’ll never get Pharmacare until all the provincial governments are red too! We just promised it so that you would vote for us.

This past weekend we saw the Conservative leader turn his back on two large factions of his own party, the climate change deniers and those that would deny a woman’s right to decide what happens to her own body. It sounds like the leader of the blue party is going to set his own platform all by himself with no regard for democracy or what his members stand for.

Where does that leave us? We have 2 parties that will say anything to get elected. Fortunately we do have an alternative. We have a party where policies and platforms are decided democratically at conventions. The NDP has policies and platforms that are consistently about public service - not power. Policies that consistently mean to help the weak and disenfranchised, the discriminated and the average working person.

Here’s to hoping that next election we look past what the candidates say and really consider what their party really stands for.

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