In my experience the NDP is willing to burn ecological resources for trivial short term gains. They are a worker party, which is fine, but they often treat ‘jobs’ as a goal in itself, rather than a route to quality of people’s lives.
You can make lots of jobs logging old growth and building out fossil fuel infrastructure.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, I’ll still vote for them over other options, but my heart and wallet are with the Greens.
Avi Lewis is good people, but institutionally i don’t see the NDP prioroizing economic and environmental sustainability. If it comes down to closing mills or saving scraps of old growth forest, or bulking up our renewables, I’m not yet convinced he’d make what i consider the right call. Unpopular sacrifices will need to happen to forestall dosaster.
Yeah, I’m not the type to throw out the baby with the bathwater or fall for the ‘every party sucks so why bother’ propaganda. I’ll vote as closely as I can to my preferences with an eye on the bigger picture.
And of course advocate and vote towards better representation. FPTP is garbage and forces me to make decisions i don’t like.
In my experience the NDP is willing to burn ecological resources for trivial short term gains. They are a worker party, which is fine, but they often treat ‘jobs’ as a goal in itself, rather than a route to quality of people’s lives.
You can make lots of jobs logging old growth and building out fossil fuel infrastructure.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, I’ll still vote for them over other options, but my heart and wallet are with the Greens.
I don’t get that sense of NDP from Avi Lewis at all.
Avi Lewis is good people, but institutionally i don’t see the NDP prioroizing economic and environmental sustainability. If it comes down to closing mills or saving scraps of old growth forest, or bulking up our renewables, I’m not yet convinced he’d make what i consider the right call. Unpopular sacrifices will need to happen to forestall dosaster.
We can do better, which I believe they would do, with balance. Certainly better than carney or pete.
Yeah, I’m not the type to throw out the baby with the bathwater or fall for the ‘every party sucks so why bother’ propaganda. I’ll vote as closely as I can to my preferences with an eye on the bigger picture.
And of course advocate and vote towards better representation. FPTP is garbage and forces me to make decisions i don’t like.
Yeah, I really don’t want Green and NDP to merge. NDP seem to hate the environment. I’d have nobody left to vote for.