The Lefty Canadian Radical

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Left not liberal. Working class politics is my religion. Unapologetically socialist, Black, and a woman. Not tolerant, but fair. @Tori_TLCR on Twitter. Free Palestine!

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Fun Facts with Squidward Meme showing Squidward from SpongeBob and a speech bubble against a purple background the text says, "If the Fraser Institute praises our government's economic plan, the plan is bad for our society."
Dale Smith tweeted: Singh is back up to demand concrete action on child care, which is, say it with me, provincial jurisdiction!
ourcommons.ca/members/en/votes/45/1/33 3rd reading and adoption of Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act (Part 1) Greens: Nay Liberal, NDP, CPC, BQ: Yea
The storage wars best I can do meme template with the text: capitalism Defenders explaining why when most of the world's countries are capitalists under 19% of them are developed. The guy says best I can do is scientific racism.
A chart from the financial accountability office of Ontario from a report on income growth and mobility showing a median wage growth of 3% while productivity group 49% from 1981 to 2016. I made edits that show what workers get paid and value produced by labor.
Text: Me Image: man taking off headphones in disgust.
Screenshot from Wikipedia talking about Liberalism, showing schools of thought that fall under Liberal ideology, including Neo for neoliberalism.
Colin Carrie on the right side of the table with other Conservatives like Leslyn Lewis sitting with a far right German politician Christine Anderson, having lunch.
Liberal MPs who voted YEA to Restore the Traditional Definition of Marriage. Raymond Bonin, Gerry Byrne, Roy Cullen, Wajid Khan, Derek Lee, Gurbax S. Malhi, John McKay, Francis Scarpaleggia, Paul Steckle, Alan Tonks, Tom Wappel, Jim Karygiannis, and Dan McTeague. Everyone but John McKay and Francis' photos are in black and white since they are no longer in the party.
We voted to restore Harper's "traditional definition" of marriage and we're still in the Party. John McKay, Scarborough Guildwood Francis Scarpaleggia, Lac-Saint-Louis
Man Ray from Spongebob, asks Patrick Star: Aren't you the NDP? Patrick Star: Yup. Man Ray: And we have First Past the Post that makes people vote strategically for Liberals and Conservatives? Patrick: Yup. Man Ray: So appearing too similar to either CPC or LPC to the median voter won't help you win more seats? Patrick: That makes sense to me. Man Ray: So you should run a bold left-wing campaign to attract the people who hate the status quo? Patrick: Capitulate to the neoliberal consensus and emphasize our leader's personality.
Jagmeet Singh approaching two podiums, one with a red button and one with a blue button and pointing at the red one. A red button says, "Keep trying to win over the type of liberals who will never vote for you and alienate your own base in the process." A blue button says, "Run a left economic populist campaign that energizes your base and convinces nonvoters to go out and vote."
A meme parodying a Scholastic children's book. An angry man is stomping around and swearing and so angry smoke is coming out of his ears. The title says, "I hate everything except for Capitalism! A Guide for Understanding Reactionaries."
The same image as the third image in the post above only instead of the Liberals and Conservatives plotted under it, examples of right-wing ideologies are plotted under their labels. Social democracy example is Nordic countries. Keynesian example is Britain prior to Thatcher and the USA under FDR. Neoliberal examples are US post Reagan, Canada post Mulroney, UK post Thatcher. Classical Liberal examples are US under President Coolidge, UK under the Whig aristocracy. Fascism example is Germany under Hitler.
The Economic Political Spectrum Far Left to Far Right: Commmunist, Anarchist, Socialist, Social Democrat (in the centre) Keynesian, Neoliberal, Laissez-Faire, Fascist on the Far Right. Left ideologies are collectivist and promote collective ownership of the means of production. Right ideologies promote capitalism and the private ownership of the means of production. The Spectrum According to the Media Communism, socialism, anarchism aren't talked about at all. Social Democracy is considered the far left and outside the Overton window. Left are Keynesians and social liberals. Centrists are Neoliberals, and Right-wingers are Laissez Faire ideologies. Fascism is considered the far right and outside the Overton window.
338 projection for Oshawa shows CPC first, Liberals second, NDP third.
Ekos poll demographic breakdown showing Liberals and Conservatives both are leading with working class and poor Canadians with NDP trailing way behind with both in third place.
Liberals need their own Margaret Thatcher and they haven't found her yet. Christia Freeland, April 13, 2013 Globe and Mail
Vote out Bill Blair for systemic racism. This is Canada's Public Safety Minister, and Liberal MP, Bill Blair. Formerly known as Ontario's Top Cop and the former Chief of Toronto Police Service. As Chief of TPS, Blair racially targetted Black and Brown Canadians instituting carding and violating civil liberties based on race. Under Blair's leadership the TPS were 20 times more likely to shoot a Black person and 5 times likelier to tase them than a white person despite making up 8.8% of Toronto's population.
India Costume scandal, Jaspal Atwal scandal, TY for your donation, Elbowgate, Aga Khan Resort scandal, SNC Eithics scandal, JWR and Jane Philpott ousted, Brown and blackface, We charity scandal, groping allegations, Celina called Trudeau fake as fuck and leaving office. And they tweeted, "I Stand with Trudeau every time!"
According to Stephen Gordon, only Canadians at the higher end of the middle class benefited from the Liberal government's tax cuts. (Peter Scobie/CBC) "The middle-class tax cut only kicks in at about the 50th or 60th percentiles, so it means that more than half of tax filers didn't receive any benefit and that includes the median — the 50th percentile — doesn't benefit," he said. "So it was called the middle-class tax cut but the middle doesn't even get it."
A Venn Diagram for the Liberal and Conservative parties. In the center is stuff they both agree on including: FPTP rocks! We love Israel. Lower corporate taxes. To hell with Palestinians. Arming Saudi Arabia is good. Profits matter more than climate. The Charter is just a suggestion. Order striking workers back to work. Tax breaks for the rich trickle down. Invest in corps that violate human rights. Renters do not matter in the housing crisis. Maintain stockoptions loopholes for Bay Street. Turn public assets over to private profiteers. Spend billions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies. Allow 70% of oil sands shares to be foreign owned. Sell Canada's economy to foreign nationals. Enable billions in tax avoidance off-shore. Keep disabled Canadians in dire poverty. Underfund the Federal Health Transfer. Don't protect public health care. Veterans are asking for too much. Back US in coups in global South. Let Loblaws have $12M for fridges. Abuse temporary foreign workers. Give more money to NATO. MMIWG is not a priority. Lobbyists are awesome! REITs are good. On the margins is stuff they don't agree on, including: gun control, climate change, abortion, convoy protests, Indigenous protests, trans people, conversion therapy, and respecting the Supreme Court.
Dale Smith @journo_dale writes: Singh is back up to demand concrete action on child care, which is... Say it with me: clapping emoji Provincial clapping emoji jurisdiction.
The supply of energy didn’t just shut off. It was Israel that shut it off. And the blockade on essential supplies is not just a “political tool”. It is a war crime. If we don’t have the courage to name the problem, we will not be able to fix it.
The last time we put the conservatives in charge of Canada, they sold: Nexen to China, Inco to Brazil, IPSCO to Russia, Stelco to the USA, Nortel to Sweden, Falconbridge to Switzerland, Canada's Wheat Board to Saudi Arabia, and Locked Canada into a 31-year FIPPA with China.
Election results Doug Ford riding, 26.73 percentage points lost by the Liberals while Ford gains 29.73
Since Pierre was elected to Parliament in 2004 he voted with the Liberals over 600 times. Source: The Breach
Divest CPP away from companies that commit human rights violations, pollute or violate labour laws. Greens, NDP, BQ: Yea CPC, Liberals: Nay
Rein in telecom oligopolies overcharging Canadians 20 - 70% more for telecom. Institute a bill of rights for telecom consumers etc. Greens, NDP, BQ: Yea PPC, LPC, CPC: Nay
Liberals, Conservatives: Nay Greens, NDP, BQ yay
That the house call on the government to build 500,000 units of quality and affordable homes in ten years. Greens, NDP, BQ: Yea Liberals, Conservatives, PPC: Nay
Honour campaign promises and throne speech commitment to strengthen the EI system to make sure it best serves the Canadian economy and all Canadians who need it and to protect the account and ensure funds are only spent on benefits for Canadians, not the government's bottom line. Liberals, Conservatives: Nay Greens, BQ, NDP: Yea
I heard a funny joke about trickle down economics but 99% of you will never get it.
Immediately move to recover the $12 Million given to Loblaws and reinvest it to the benefit of working Canadians and their families. Greens, NDP, BQ: Yea Liberals, Conservatives, PPC: Nay
Vote 44/1/262 ENSURE THAT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED HEALTH CARE FUNDING IS NOT USED FOR THE EXPANSION OF FOR-PROFIT HEALTH CARE, BUT INSTEAD USED TO REBUILD AND INNOVATE WITHIN THE PUBLIC SYSTEM BY HIRING MORE STAFF AND REDUCING WAIT TIMES; AND ENFORCE THE CANADA HEALTH ACT AND IMMEDIATELY MOVE TO CLOSE LOOPHOLES THAT ALLOW FOR THE GROWTH OF TWO-TIER HEALTH CARE IN CANADA. Greens, NDP: Yea Liberals, Conservatives, BQ: Nay
According to Stephen Gordon, only Canadians at the higher end of the middle class benefited from the Liberal government's tax cuts. (Peter Scobie/CBC) "The middle-class tax cut only kicks in at about the 50th or 60th percentiles, so it means that more than half of tax filers didn't receive any benefit and that includes the median — the 50th percentile — doesn't benefit," he said. "So it was called the middle-class tax cut but the middle doesn't even get it."
Screenshot of a Toronto Star article from 2020 that says, "Canada hasn't hit a climate-change target since 1992. Can Justin Trudeau break the streak?
Meme of Mark Carney with overlapping sentences written in bold and opaque text. The first paragraph is in bold and reads: "Today, the federal Liberal party members will choose their new leader and the new Prime Minister of Canada." The paragraph written between that one reads, "Today, oligarchs and Bay Street bigwigs will choose their new mascot and the new corporate puppet of Canada." in opaque text.
"No one in Canada should be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist." - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A meme of six different Israelis doing blackface beside Justin Trudeau doing blackface.
Screenshots from Twitter On March 6, 2025, user cat foot slurper @steamyporkbuns tweeted: I’m sorry but if you can’t see that protecting a total of 9 trans athletes isn’t worth eviscerating the entire federal government, I’m not only not listening to your political takes, but will actively work to defeat your preferred presidential candidate in 2028 “But we have to fight for what we believe in!!!” What a simple-minded idea! Apparently fighting for most of you means picking extremely unpopular hills to die on and losing in a blaze of glory. I’m here to win."
Me: Canada should have a housing corp that builds across Canada like FDR did for conservation. We could be putting shovels in the ground and giving people good jobs to build housing, rail etc. Neoliberalism doesn't build anything big but crises. Kaj said: I find it hard to listen to Hasan's whores with those stupid flags. Me: Then cut your ears off buddy. They're worthless anyway.
Word cloud created by Abacus about people's perceptions of the Liberals contains the following words: liars, leader, poor, new, money, Ignatieff, lack, confused, weak, dishonest, leadership, moderate, disorganized, Corruption, divided, corrupt, arrogant, red, old, incompetent
Results in Alberta. Liberals lose 6.7%, Conservatives gain 3.3% while NDP gains 2.2%
Summary of 2006 election results. Conservatives gain 26.3%, Liberals lose 23.7%
Screenshot from the Rabble: As well, Paul Martin had already promised to call an election thirty days after the report of the Gomery Commissi At the latest, that would have meant an election around March 13, 2006 (with the writ being dropped around February 4). During most of this time, Parliament would not have been sitting. So, please, tell us again about all the fantastic things that the Liberals would have done in that time.
Meme about the Confidence vote that toppled Paul Martin's government. Screenshot of how the parties voted you can find by visiting the link. NDP did not hold the balance in the confidence vote. Martin would have been defeated by at least two votes regardless.
From a Rabble.ca article: That's the main reason why the Liberals refused the NDP's demands to take action on protecting public health care as the price of its support - because, unlike six months earlier, the NDP could not save the Martin government ( other reason is that agreeing to the NDP's demands would have required them to protect public health care... something that Liberals are good at talking about but never doing). For the NDP, the only choice facing it was whether it wanted to go into the inevitable election campaign as a fighting force or as an adjunct to a discredited Liberal government.
Article titled, Bryden says Martin hurting Liberals CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2004 10:12 PM ET | Last Updated: February 17, 2004 John Bryden, a Liberal member of Parliament from Ontario, said on Tuesday Prime Minister Paul Martin is hurting the Liberals and he's leaving the party. "Maybe it's time for a change," Bryden said. In a CBC TV interview, Bryden said he wants "to find again the kind of idealism that has always motivated me as a backbench MP. Later, at a news conference, Bryden said it's time voters look to other parties for leadership. "The Conservatives show signs they have that kind of idealism," Bryden said but he did not say he intends to cross the floor to sit with the Conservatives. He said confidence in the Liberal party under Martin "has been seriously shaken." Asked if he is leaving because of Martin, Bryden said, "Paul Martin bears much of the responsibility. I think he has hurt the Liberal party."
A meme using the today I will vote meme format with four frames. The first frame shows a guy in a "I heart my union" shirt saying, "hmm today I will vote common sense CPC." The second frame shows them voting and has an arrow pointing at them calling them clueless. The third frame shows a bar chart of the election results showing Conservatives winning the election and a wojak of Pierre Poilievre and underneath Pierre shows policies like right to work laws and bad trade deals. The fourth frame shows the guy in the I heart my union shirt smiling proudly.
A summary of the January 23rd 2006 House of Commons of Canada election results. Liberals lose 23.7% conservatives gain 26.3%.
Happy golden retriever wearing a red scarf and running around in the snow.
2018 Ontario general election results for Doug Ford's riding. The Liberals lose 26.73% points. The conservatives gained 29.73 percentage points. Doug Ford is elected in Etobicoke North.
A meme made from a chart about Canadian voting projections. Who Elects the Cons (liberals) Who Libs get mad at (NDP)
The caption says, "Canadian politicians lying to their constituents on social media: exist. Well informed Canadians who read policy for themselves at ourcommons.ca and openparliament.ca and can fact-check them in real time." Above a meme of a group of young Black guys standing around doing a freestyle battle, one of them says, "I'm about to destroy this man's whole career."
Chrystia Freeland and Pierre Poilievre masking and sharing an elbow bump.
A meme from the kid's show, Arthur with the little sister, DW standing in front of a sign that says, "Since 2004, Pierre Poilievre has voted with the Liberal party over six hundred times." DW, who is labelled with a Canadian maple leaf says, "That sign won't stop me because I can't read!"
Plant in a purple planter.