{"id":6820,"date":"2025-11-07T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:41:43","slug":"budget-2025-war-on-the-working-class-militarization-of-the-economy-and-a-foreign-policy-of-war-and-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/budget-2025-war-on-the-working-class-militarization-of-the-economy-and-a-foreign-policy-of-war-and-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2025: War on the working class, militarization of the economy and a foreign policy of war and aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PM Carney\u2019s first budget followed through on promises made in last spring\u2019s Throne Speech:  massive cuts to social spending on public services and social programs resulting in 40,000 job  cuts and the loss of services in every public sector; huge increases to military spending in line  with the US and NATO\u2019s demand for 5% of GDP (or $150 billion annually) on war preparations, militarization of the economy, and expansion of RCMP, CSIS and police forces across Canada; expanding oil and gas exports and the pipelines needed to do it; expanding mining and export of  rare earth elements and other ores while cutting spending on Indigenous services and working to  buy off Indigenous opposition to pipelines; eliminating emissions caps and abandoning the  environment; cutting $10.3 billion annually in reduced corporate taxes; slashing immigration including foreign students and temporary foreign workers; eliminating health care coverage for  temporary foreign workers; toughening jail sentencing and access to bail, and more in the 500  pages of the Budget document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Instead of creating jobs this budget will destroy vital jobs and services across Canada that  working people want and need. It will lead to widespread privatization of public services and  make Canada more closely resemble the US. It will build a massive military industrial complex in  Canada, closely integrated with the US through NATO and NORAD, and US foreign policy of wars,  invasions, and overthrow of sovereign states and governments. It will further weaken Canadian  sovereignty and independence, and increase the growing threat of a world war including nuclear  war which means the end of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This budget is an agenda that claims to strengthen Canadian independence, but will bring Canada  closer to the US, and make it even more subject to US political and economic demands including in the  CUSMA free trade deal which is up for renewal in 2026.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM Carney\u2019s \u2018elbows up\u2019 approach is visible in this budget and in his negotiations with Trump over tariffs  and the future of manufacturing in Canada \u2013 but they\u2019re not aimed at Trump, they\u2019re aimed at  workers, women, youth, immigrants, Indigenous Peoples, farmers, and trade unions in Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carney\u2019s determination to renew the CUSMA deal at any cost is disastrous for workers and for  Canada, as the last 37 years of free trade have shown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This budget mirrors the massive $6 billion cuts to social programs, and 50,000 public sector  layoffs delivered by the Chr\u00e9tien Liberals in the 1990s. But it goes further, with the massive shift  of public funds to the military and war. The Liberals\u2019 industrial policy is aimed to support the  corporate monopolies, the banks, the resource companies, and the arms industry \u2013 not the 40  million working people who create the wealth in Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a budget that will deepen social and economic inequality, and has received praise from the  International Monetary Fund which is well known for its harsh economic policies and loan conditions, particularly in developing countries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a war budget, a corporate budget and an austerity budget that needs to be rolled back by\u00a0 a broad based people\u2019s coalition of the labour and democratic movements across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party calls for a budget that delivers for people, not corporate profits: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Expanded funding for public services and universal social programs \u2013 no layoffs and no\u00a0 privatization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Save door-to-door delivery at Canada Post, introduce postal banking, save jobs and\u00a0 expand services now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Implement the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the\u00a0 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 A 75% cut to military spending, with funds re-directed to public services and social\u00a0 programs including early learning and child care, and construction of publicly owned and\u00a0 built social housing across Canada. Create jobs, raise wages, incomes and living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Restore the luxury taxes on the rich, double the corporate tax rate, and collect deferred  and hidden corporate taxes now. The $78 billion deficit helps corporations \u2013 not workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 An independent Canadian foreign policy of peace and disarmament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Withdrawal from NATO and NORAD and cancellation of warships and fighter planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 A multi-lateral and mutually beneficial trade policy with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Withdrawal from CUSMA now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 An economic policy that builds Canadian secondary industry and manufacturing, creating\u00a0 good, well-paid and permanent value-added jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Build affordable social housing across Canada now, using a publicly owned corporation,  not private developers and builders. People, not profits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Roll back and freeze prices on food, fuel and housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Nationalize the auto and steel industries. Build a Canadian car, public transit, planes and\u00a0 trains in retooled and new Canadian plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Introduce plant closure legislation with teeth, to require corporations leaving Canada to\u00a0 just cause for layoffs and closures at public tribunals with the power to prevent closures\u00a0 and moves, to levy fines, and jail terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Raise Employment Insurance to 90% of previous earnings, for the entire period of unemployment, covering all\u00a0 workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Introduce a 32 hour work week with 40 hours of pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Outlaw Section 107 of the Labour Code and back-to-work legislation by federal and  provincial governments against striking workers. Defend the right to strike, picket and  organize with a Labour Bill of Rights in Canada\u2019s Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This budget is a disaster for working people and for Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a Conservative budget delivered by a Liberal minority government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Conservatives approve of the budget, but not the government, which is why they will vote  against it. They want an election. They want to win government, so they can deliver this agenda of war and austerity, widespread layoffs and privatization of public services and social programs including Medicare which would generate an estimated $65 million in profits for the new US  corporate \u2018owners\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BQ, Greens and NDP are all willing to support the budget if their budget demands are met.  The Communist Party is the only political party to oppose the budget and to call for a People\u2019s  Coalition of the labour and democratic movements to stop its roll-out across the country. This is an anti-labour, anti-people budget that can\u2019t stand the light of day, and must be blocked  now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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