{"id":1452,"date":"2015-09-01T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:06:11","slug":"big-parties-have-no-answers-to-economys-plummet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/big-parties-have-no-answers-to-economys-plummet\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Parties Have No Answers to Economy\u2019s Plummet"},"content":{"rendered":"
September 1, 2015<\/u>
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\nThe Communist Party reacted angrily today to the abject failure of the main political parties to address the deepening economic crisis in Canada with any meaningful policies promote growth and create permanent, well-paying jobs for working people across the country.<\/h6>\n
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Statistics Canada confirmed earlier today that the Canadian economy is now officially in recession, marked by two consecutive quarters of GDP decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cPM Harper is in complete denial over the depth of the crisis. He is in fantasyland if he thinks that Canadians really believe \u2018all is well\u2019 with the Tories\u2019 stewardship of the economy,\u201d Communist Party leader Miguel Figueroa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the other \u2018pretenders to the throne\u2019 \u2013 Trudeau and Mulcair \u2013 while eager to cast blame, offer no substantial alternatives of their own to stimulate growth, to narrow the widening disparities between the super-rich and the vast majority of working people, or to boost job creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all race about, claiming to be the best managers of this crisis-ridden system of capitalism,\u201d Figueroa added. \u201cAnd they all cling to the same neo-liberal dogma of \u2018fiscal restraint\u2019, \u2018balancing the books\u2019, tax cuts and incentives for business, and pro-corporate trade pacts like NAFTA, the TPP and CETA.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut none are prepared to support measures to improve the living conditions of working people forced to pay for this crisis through austerity policies shoved down their throats by every level of government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd none of them are prepared to admit the obvious truth \u2013 that global capitalism is in a profound and worsening economic, social and environmental crisis ever since 2008, and that all the so-called remedies employed by capitalist governments everywhere \u2013 including here in Canada \u2013 have only served to make the crisis deeper and more intractable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, employment becomes ever more precarious for millions of workers, the quality and universality of basic public services like healthcare and education continue to decline, militarism grows along with Canada\u2019s involvement in foreign wars of aggression, and the global environment deteriorates under the impact of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Communist Party calls for a major turn in public policy to address the crisis, a program for fundamental change serving the needs of working people, not the big banks and corporations:<\/p>\n