Lipstick on a Pig?
“So that's why this proposal is a name change. We're not saying to formally split from the federal party, because I think there is value in being able to share it resources and share expertise between the various NDP in the country. I think that's useful,” Malkinson explained.
Despite publicly putting some distance between itself and its Ottawa cousins, the Alberta NDP has relied heavily on national NDP luminaries like Brian Topp and Nathan Rotman to run its election campaigns. Even the federal NDP’s national director Anne McGrath ran the Premier’s McDougall Centre office when Notley was premier and was the Alberta NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity in 2019.
https://daveberta.substack.com/p/alberta-ndp-name-change-pushed-by
That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.
The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...
