Rob Ashton, Hafenarbeiter gegen Kanadas politische Klasse

>Take my youngest daughter. When I told her I was going to run for the NDP, she said, “You have to help out young people.” I asked what she meant and she said, “I can’t afford to move out of the house. It’s impossible.”

>That’s why I’m running. Every time the Liberals or Conservatives win, they promise to make life better. “We’re going to make it more affordable.” Then, the next day, it’s back to business as usual — ruling for the rich and the powerful, while forgetting the everyday Canadians who built this country.

The core problem here, why the Liberals and Conservatives don’t solve these problems, and the status quo remains so entrenched, is because they are beholden to an upper middle class electorate that ultimately doesn’t *really* want these problems solved.

For example on housing yea sure everyone says they want more affordable housing, but when someone proposes getting rid of low density homes and building some apartments all of a sudden „whoa whoa whoa we can’t do that“ and so best we have is some fiddling at the edges, maybe ADUs or fourplexes, something that ultimately just allows established upper middle class homeowners to extract more value out of their properties while not adding remarkably more housing, and not remarkably helping regular renting workers.

The challenge for Ashton here if he actually wants to genuinely solve problems for the working class is that he needs a broad based electorate that *doesn’t* benefit from the status quo to show up and get a party elected. That is a group that has seldom appeared to vote and needs to be reached out to and rallied.