Communist Party candidate Drwew Garvie has officially added
his name to the list of local candidates running for the riding of Guelph
in the 2011 Provincial Election.
Garvie first ran in the 2007 Provincial Election, eventually
winning .4 per cent of the vote. Running the next fall in the Federal Election,
he didn't finish as well with only .13 per cent of the popular vote, but he did
however capitalize on that in this past spring's Federal Election, increasing
his vote share to .17 per cent True it doesn't sound like much, but for a
so-called third party candidate, literally every vote counts.
Here's the announcing press release from the Garvie
campaign:
Drew Garvie announced today that he will once again be the
Communist Party’s candidate in Guelph,
in the upcoming October 6th provincial election. He will be one of nine
candidates running for the Communist Party in the election on a platform of
“real, progressive change for Ontario.”
Drew Garvie, 26, is a service sector worker, part-time
student, and a campus and community activist. He was the Communist candidate in
Guelph in the 2007 provincial
election, as well as in the last two federal elections.
Drew supports the student movement in its call for
universal, quality public education at all levels and calls for the elimination
of tuition fees, massively increasing public education funding, and stopping
military recruitment and privatization on campus. He actively protests Canada's
war in Afghanistan
and is a supporter of the Six Nations reclamation in Caledonia.
“Youth and working-people in Ontario
are justifiably angry at the Liberal Government for protecting corporate wealth
and privilege while real wages and living standards are falling, real unemployment
is rising and the real economy is tottering on the edge of another deep recession.
But voting Tory to punish the Liberals is like jumping from the frying pan into
the fire,” Garvie commented.
The Communist Party is calling on working people to block the
right, and to elect a progressive block of MPPs, including Communists to fight for
policies that will put people’s needs ahead of corporate greed. Full employment
policies, strong social programs and public services, quality healthcare and accessible
post-secondary education, and progressive tax reform and tax relief for working
people.
Garvie and the Communist Party will also be raising policies
that the larger political parties refuse to raise such as scrapping the regressive
HST entirely and replacing it with a truly progressive tax system that taxes those
with the ability to pay, the “greedy and not the needy”.
The Communist Party works with the labour and democratic movements,
and all those who struggle for peace, democracy, equality, sovereignty, and social
progress. The CPC’s history has been intertwined with the struggles of labour and
the peoples’ movements 1921, when it was founded in Guelph,
Ontario. It is the second oldest political
party in Canada.
No comments:
Post a Comment