According to her campaign materials, Liberal candidate Stephanie McLean might sound like a Liberal candidate who could appeal to working-class voters in the Vancouver Island riding of Esquimalt–Saanich–Sooke.
But McLean’s allegiances can be difficult to peg down. After leaving the Alberta NDP, McLean became a donor supporting Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in 2023 and decided only a month ago she would now be running for the Liberals in BC.
Some members of BC’s labour movement also say McLean, who has represented employers in labour disputes, has a questionable history representing the interests of workers in BC given her past ties to a union that has been ostracized by the province’s labour movement as well as influential “anti-union” figures in the province.
My question is who is she running against. What have they done/not done, and if her opposition has a record as well, who is “less bad” in this case? It’s pretty difficult to honestly read this at this point in the election without a comparison and not see it as a smear piece.
This isn’t my riding, so I don’t know, but if it was, I’d like to know the dirt on the other candidates and get an honest comparison.
And all that is even before taking the greater national election into consideration and that PP is out to take out Canadian rights and freedoms while giving billions of tax dollars to rich corporations as hand-outs all the while throwing the most vulnerable to the curb all the while saying that it’s for the benefits of those he himself trampled on.
Mark Carney couldn’t even be arsed to name a Minister of Labour. The Liberals under Trudeau broke multiple strikes and there’s little reason to believe the Liberals under Carney will be different. Under either the LPC or CPC we have at best striking privileges.
Yup, choosing Carney this election is just to head off PP. Cuz PP will be a disaster for this country.
All we can do is try to push Carney to push thru electoral reform like Trudeau promised and failed.
