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We need a government run by and for the working class that recognizes how our interests are inherently at odds with the interests of banks and big business.
Affordability & Childcare
Cell & Internet Bills
Katie Campbell's promise
Nationalize telecoms and internet service providers to make quality network service low-cost and universally accessible.
Childcare
Katie Campbell's promise
Establish a universal system of quality public childcare now, with Canada-wide standards, that’s free to users.
Raise the wages of childcare workers, and make Early Childhood Education qualifications mandatory.
Employment Insurance
Katie Campbell's promise
Make Employment Insurance non-contributory and expand it to include all workers including part-time workers and first-time job seekers – for the full duration of unemployment, at 90% of previous earnings (or the average wage).
Food & Nutrition
Katie Campbell's promise
Set price controls on food staples for Northern and Indigenous communities.
GST
Katie Campbell's promise
Abolish the regressive GST that disproportionately makes life harder for poor people.
Guaranteed Livable Income
Katie Campbell's promise
Introduce a Guaranteed Annual Livable Income to raise living standards and combat poverty especially among Indigenous peoples, new immigrants, women, youth, seniors and persons with disabilities.
Living in the North
Katie Campbell's promise
Set price controls on food staples for Northern and Indigenous communities, and use a national public transportation system to make getting to and from remote communities affordable and sustainable.
Minimum Wage
Katie Campbell's promise
Raise the minimum wage to $23/hour across Canada.
Climate Change & the Environment
Emissions Reductions Targets
Katie Campbell's promise
Replace cap-and-trade and carbon tax schemes with strict legal limits for pollution and hard caps on emissions, especially from industrial sources, to reduce emissions to zero by 2050.
Impose strong penalties for corporations which break the law, including jail time for corporate executives.
Energy Nationalization
Katie Campbell's promise
Adopt a People’s Energy Plan, including public ownership and democratic control of all energy and natural resources, including extraction, production and distribution.
Close the Alberta tar sands, and guarantee the jobs and wages of laid-off workers in renewable and in more sustainable industries.
Put a moratorium on the exploration and development of shale gas resources.
Education
Apprenticeship
Katie Campbell's promise
Significantly increase funding and access to training and apprenticeship programs.
Establish a pan-Canadian apprenticeship program with national standards for all trades.
Tools for the trade should be provided free to apprentices.
Post-Secondary Tuition
Katie Campbell's promise
Make universal quality public and post-secondary education free to all, including textbook and lab costs.
Eliminate existing student debt.
Private Schooling
Katie Campbell's promise
End public funding of private and religious schools.
Reverse privatization and corporatization in public education.
Health & Healthcare
COVID Vaccination
Katie Campbell's promise
End Canada’s vaccine hoarding now, and make the COVID vaccine universally available through the United Nations’ COVAX program.
Override patent rights so countries can buy or produce the vaccines in their own labs at cost.
Nationalize the pharmaceutical industry, and manufacture vaccines, PPE, and medical equipment in Canada.
Health Funding
Katie Campbell's promise
Stop the attack on universal Medicare, by restoring funding, expanding services, and reversing privatization.
Reverse P-3 agreements and require provinces to adequately fund public hospitals and healthcare services to meet community needs.
Palliative Care
Katie Campbell's promise
End private, for-profit long term care and integrate long-term care into the public Medicare system.
Truly Universal Care
Katie Campbell's promise
End private, for profit long-term care, and expand Medicare to include long-term care, pharmacare, vision, dental and mental health care.
Enforce the Canada Health Act, and close private, for-profit clinics and labs.
Reduce drug overdose deaths with harm reduction and ‘safe supply’ policies.
Housing & Homelessness
Homelessness
Katie Campbell's promise
Enact a federal housing policy that recognizes housing is a fundamental human right, and make housing a public utility.
Build emergency shelters and transition housing.
Housing Prices
Katie Campbell's promise
Ensure that no-one pays more than 20% of their income on shelter using rent controls and rent roll-backs.
Housing Supply
Katie Campbell's promise
Build one million units of affordable social housing, and create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs in construction and manufacturing.
Human Rights & Equality
Conversion Therapy
Katie Campbell's promise
Make ‘conversion’ therapy illegal.
Data Privacy
Katie Campbell's promise
Repeal C-59 (formerly C-51) and all other undemocratic and repressive “anti-terrorism” legislation.
Defend and expand on-line privacy rights.
Gender Equity
Katie Campbell's promise
Strengthen and enforce pay and employment equity programs for women, Indigenous peoples, racialized communities and persons with disabilities.
Protect women’s right to EI maternity coverage; expand parental benefits to 52 weeks.
Hate Crimes & Hate Speech
Katie Campbell's promise
Enforce hate speech laws and prosecute white supremacist and neo-fascist organizations as criminal organizations.
Immigration & Refugees
Credential Recognition
Katie Campbell's promise
Recognize international educational credentials, particularly those of medical professionals who can help deal with doctor and nurse shortages.
Immigration Process
Katie Campbell's promise
Stop deportations of immigrants and refugees, and reverse cuts to legal aid.
Scrap the 10 year ban on access to income supports and guarantee access to healthcare.
Refugees
Katie Campbell's promise
Repeal the ‘Safe Third Country’ agreement and stop criminalizing refugees forced to enter Canada illegally and in dangerous conditions.
Temporary Foreign Workers
Katie Campbell's promise
Scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and the “Live-in Caregiver” Program, and provide a clear and accessible path to permanent residency and citizenship for all foreign and migrant workers, and undocumented workers, in Canada.
Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation
Natural Resources Development
Katie Campbell's promise
Guarantee Indigenous rights to full, free, prior and informed consent over all development, including resource extraction and pipelines on or affecting their land or livelihoods.
Residential Schools
Katie Campbell's promise
Combat the legacy of residential "schools". End the seizure and removal of Indigenous children and youth into state care by taking emergency action to improve living conditions, employment, health, education, and housing of Indigenous peoples, and immediately end the racist and discriminatory cap on educational and health funding for treaty First Nations children.
Self-Determination
Katie Campbell's promise
Recognize the rights of all Indigenous nations to self-determination up to and including the right to secession.
Treaty Rights
Katie Campbell's promise
Enforce Indigenous Treaty fishing and hunting rights in the Maritimes and across Canada.
TRC and MMWIG
Katie Campbell's promise
Implement the Calls to Action set out by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission and by the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
UNDRIP
Katie Campbell's promise
Recognize and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Funding
Katie Campbell's promise
Stop P3s (Public-Private Partnerships) and build public infrastructure with public funds from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
Municipal Proposals
Katie Campbell's promise
Restore local democracy and autonomy and adequately fund municipal governments and services.
Give constitutional status and wealth taxing powers to municipalities.
Return 50% of gas and licencing taxes to cities.
International Relations
China
Katie Campbell's promise
Oppose the heightening of tensions with China as part of the US-led New Cold War. Release Meng Wanzhou who did not violate Canadian law.
International Development
Katie Campbell's promise
Cancel the international debts of impoverished and exploited countries.
Iran
Katie Campbell's promise
Stop helping the US enforce sanctions on Iran, and oppose any aggressive US-led war effort against Iran.
Israel & Palestine
Katie Campbell's promise
Oppose Israeli apartheid – support a just peace in the Middle East based on Israel’s withdrawal from all territories occupied since 1967, the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and the formation of an independent, viable Palestinian state.
Enact boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel.
Enforce laws against military recruiting of youth in Canada by the Israeli Defence Force.
Ukraine
Katie Campbell's promise
Stop allying with neo-Nazis with no consideration for the interests of the people of Donbass.
De-Militarization
Katie Campbell's promise
Adopt an independent Canadian foreign policy of peace and disarmament, cut military spending by 75%, oppose the upgrading of NORAD, and withdraw from NATO and NORAD now.
Arms Trade
Katie Campbell's promise
Scrap the planned purchase of F35 fighter jets and warships that are equipped to carry nuclear weapons, the $5 billion purchase of armed drones, and cancel the sale of armoured military vehicles to Saudi Arabia.
End all military exports from Canada.
Latin America
Katie Campbell's promise
Immediately end Canada’s involvement in US regime change in Venezuela.
Withdraw from the Lima Group, lift sanctions and restore full diplomatic relations.
Oppose the US blockade of Cuba, lift all sanctions, and restore full services at the Canadian Embassy in Havana.
Jobs & the Economy
Agriculture
Katie Campbell's promise
Provide agricultural workers with the same labour rights, standards, and minimum wages as industrial workers.
Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
Katie Campbell's promise
End corporate bailouts, including CEWS (Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy) and LEEFF (Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility), close tax loopholes and shelters; collect unpaid and deferred corporate taxes and jail corporate tax evaders.
International Trade
Katie Campbell's promise
Get out of the job-destroying USMCA (NAFTA 2.0), the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership), and other supra-national trade deals that aim to give corporations more power than elected governments.
Manufacturing
Katie Campbell's promise
Expand value added manufacturing and secondary industry in Canada and adopt trade policies that are multi-lateral and mutually beneficial.
Introduce plant closure legislation with teeth (including fines, jail time, and public takeover), to protect jobs.
Part-Time, Contract, & Gig Workers
Katie Campbell's promise
Include part-time, home-based and contract workers under federal and provincial labour laws.
Pensions
Katie Campbell's promise
Substantially increase Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits and reduce the pension age to 60 with full pension benefits including access to the Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Scientific Research & Exp. Dev
Katie Campbell's promise
Public ownership of scientific and technological research institutions.
Tax Evasion
Katie Campbell's promise
Tax avoidance is tax evasion: Make offshore tax havens illegal.
Taxation
Katie Campbell's promise
Double the corporate tax rate, restore the capital tax, and impose taxes on 100% of capital gains.
Eliminate taxes on incomes under $40,000/yr.
Enact wealth and inheritance taxes on the wealthy.
Full Employment
Katie Campbell's promise
Develop and implement a comprehensive full employment strategy based on massive public investments to increase value-added jobs in environmentally sustainable manufacturing and secondary industry.
Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction
Addiction & the Opioid Crisis
Katie Campbell's promise
Reduce drug overdose deaths with harm reduction and ‘safe supply’ policies.
Transit & Transportation
Transit Investment
Katie Campbell's promise
Introduce a bullet train, first through the Montreal to Windsor corridor, the busiest corridor in Canada for moving people and goods.
Create a publicly owned bus service, fueled by renewable energy, to replace and expand the service previously provided by Greyhound and other for-profit operators.
Zero-Emission Vehicles
Katie Campbell's promise
Build a Canadian electric car that’s environmentally sustainable and affordable, for sale in Canada and for export.
Nationalize the Canadian operations of the Detroit Three, and retool to produce environmentally sustainable public transit vehicles and systems.
Renewed Rapid Transit
Katie Campbell's promise
Build mass rapid transit vehicles and systems for municipalities, to reduce use of private cars and to reduce carbon emissions.
Make rapid transit free to users, with dedicated lanes and right-if-ways to encourage usage.
Misc. topics
Broadcasting & Streaming
Katie Campbell's promise
Tax Netflix and all foreign for-profit cultural businesses at a substantial rate, and use the funds to support public and democratic cultural work, and workers, across Canada and in Quebec, Acadia, and Indigenous communities and nations. Increase state support for Canadian writers and publishing.
CBC & Radio-Canada
Katie Campbell's promise
Restore funding for the CBC and invest in the National Film Board (NFB-ONF), Telefilm Canada, CBC/Radio-Canada, Conseil des arts du Canada / Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Museum Association / Association des musées canadiens, and other publicly owned institutions.
Support the non-profit Aboriginal People’s Television Network which is unique in North America.
Canada Post
Katie Campbell's promise
Restore door to door mail delivery and implement postal banking at Canada Post.
Financial Advice & Institutions
Katie Campbell's promise
Nationalize the banks and insurance companies.
Government Ethics & Lobbying
Katie Campbell's promise
Dramatically cut spending limits for political parties during and prior to election campaigns.
Remove restrictions on the right of unions to donate to political parties; enforce the ban on corporate donations including to Third Parties registered with Elections Canada.
Members of Parliament to receive the average workers’ wages and benefits.
Biography
submitted by the candidate or their team
Katie is a proud member of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) and is looking forward to challenging the status quo and supporting the urgent left and socialist needs of people in Halifax.
Katie was born in Halifax, raised in Sydney, lived in Ottawa for many years and has a long and unswerving lean to the left. She has worked as a temporary office worker, a technology contractor, run a small business, and taken on lots of gig jobs over the years as the landscape has changed for workers in Canada. Katie has previously run for office in Halifax in both municipal (2008) and provincial (2013) elections and volunteers as often as possible with various groups within the community.
Katie is also an artist working in various mediums and enjoys being a member of a large and talented family.
Reason for running
submitted by the candidate or their team
The domination of the peoples of Canada by the interests of the rich and powerful is hurtling us all into a climate catastrophe, pushing more and people into homelessness, and exploiting millions of people abroad.
We need to move beyond this colonial, profit-motivated system.
We need to move beyond this colonial, profit-motivated system.
Only socialism can build a society where the needs of people and the environment are in harmony and where working people are in the driver’s seat. A socialist Canada is the aim of the Communist Party – fundamental social change that’s possible, urgent and worth fighting for.
Don’t waste your vote on parties that put corporate profits ahead of peoples’ needs – and rights. Strategic voting will get you more of the same – or worse.
This time, vote for your own interests. For a People’s Recovery. For good jobs, affordable social housing, higher living standards, a future for youth. For equality, for peace, for climate justice. Vote Communist for fundmantal social and economic change benefitting working people.
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