Jobs and the Economy

Federal legislation on the use of scabs includes a big escape clause that effectively renders any supposed ban in federal law useless.

Canada’s social safety net - including Employment Insurance – has been dismantled bit by bit as part of a deliberate restructuring of our economy to suit the needs of business, not workers.

It was a failed experiment, and needs to be reversed.

There was a philosophical and ideological shift over a generation that put individualism first and foremost - a belief in working strictly for wages, rather than passion or principle, and shamed anything that looked like getting something for nothing.

By Navjeet Sidhu

One of the policy measures announced in the recent 2021 Federal Budget was the introduction of a $15 federal minimum wage.