Muhammad Riaz Sahi is the NDP candidate for Milton.

Labour, labour, labour. What’s it all about? We know some old dead guys two centuries past started a movement that gave us an 8 hour work day in a 40 hour work week and other protections such as the right to organize. That also gave us a holiday at the start of September, or May depending on where you live. We know that Labour movements are spearheading demands for higher minimum wages. We also hear that business complains about the soaring cost of labour and their difficulties in finding skilled trades workers. Now Elon Musk is saying a basic income will be necessary in the future. What does it all mean?

Well the truth is, we don’t know what it all means. No one has a crystal ball that sees into the future. No one can say what’s better, a degree in Business, a degree in Engineering or a trade. The future is, well, the future, and no one knows what it will look like.

Here is what we do know.
  • The climate is changing. We’re in the thralls of global climate change and we need to act now to reduce its impact and stall its course. Technology alone won’t save us . . but
  • Technology is changing and will continue to impact labour and the climate.
  • The cost of living and the cost of housing are rocketing out of control.
  • Low corporate taxes and incentives don’t work while the wealthiest keep getting richer. Their money is not reinvested in the economies that helped create the wealth in the first place.
So where does that leave us this election? We need to think about which party has a plan, has a way of thinking about these problems that is as interconnected as the problem itself. A plan that is built from the ground up - from the worker on up. Not the tired old tax incentives and invisible hand metaphors. Not the tired old hundred bucks in every middle class pocket schemes or the idea that setting targets that are well beyond your mandate are in any way meaningful.

The NDP has a plan. New Democrats will deliver the results we all want: greater equality and a path to the clean jobs future that we need. We know going back to the old ways of doing things just isn’t working. It’s time to do better by building an economy that works for people, by taking better care of each other and finding the courage to do what’s right. 

Mike Druiven. Milton NDP EDA

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  1. UnknownSeptember 7, 2021 at 6:12 AM

    Thanks for reminding people Mike. How quickly some people have forgotten the face of their father, and those who struggles so that we could have a better work / life balance. I'm with you and the house of labour.

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