Die Kandidaten für die Führung der NDP rechnen mit Öl- und Gasarbeitern – und ihren Stimmen

And this is why I’m pro Heather and Rob, I think Avi Lewis would kill the party even more in working class, industrial ridings, his environmental platform is insanely underwhelming cuz it misses out on things like inner city transit, commuter rail/LRTs/subways, and boils down to free heatpumps, solar panels, indecisive on whether it’s pro or anti mining but use it to fund an SWF for indigenous people only, electrifying buses, and vague platitudes on making „big polluters pay for it“. It’s all vibes and „trust me bro“ of a plan that is also a largely repackaged version of what we ran in 2025 using more class based rhetoric.

There’s a few good parts, like the mass training of extractive industry workers, crown corp for mining, but otherwise, pretty underwhelming overall.

Also his leadership campaign has people that I’ve had big disagreements with personally, and I’d rather not see them get rewarded for shitty behavior.

Oil, gas, and mining jobs have been one of the few reliable paths to upward economic mobility in Canada. They have provided people access to high-paying careers that simply don’t exist in most other sectors in Canada.

I’ve seen firsthand how they’ve lifted entire communities and provided people without elite university degrees in particular with a path to build financial security.

That’s why the NDP is way out of sync with the working class. In one way or another, each leadership candidate intends to stifle the projects that create these jobs.

You can’t claim to stand with workers while blocking the industries that employ them!