"If you elect those people, they'll take away your home, they'll take away your car, and burn down your churches. Furthermore, they'll nationalize your women.” What, really? All they wanted was basic security. I had no idea that we owe basics such as family allowance (child tax benefit), unemployment insurance, government-mandated medical care and old age pension - all of which Canadians now take for granted and depend on - to a party started in the 30s in the Prairies.
That rhetoric about the poor coming to take away the goodies (and women LOL) of the more moneyed segments of the population sounds a little like what one reads about Sanders and co. in the US. Yet they, too, basically seem to aim for what amounts to more equality by giving the poorer sections basic security in jobs, healthcare etc. - which they should have in the first place. That’s not quite the same as communism, even if Sanders doesn’t seem like the most practical person in the world when it comes to realistic implementation. Yet without such parties and politicians as the CCF and Sanders, respectively, to push the government, many necessary changes might never come to pass.
The website with the Saskatchewan CCF description looks like a good Canadian history resource for homeschooled autistic kids, by the way! :)
"If you elect those people, they'll take away your home, they'll take away your car, and burn down your churches. Furthermore, they'll nationalize your women.” What, really? All they wanted was basic security. I had no idea that we owe basics such as family allowance (child tax benefit), unemployment insurance, government-mandated medical care and old age pension - all of which Canadians now take for granted and depend on - to a party started in the 30s in the Prairies.
That rhetoric about the poor coming to take away the goodies (and women LOL) of the more moneyed segments of the population sounds a little like what one reads about Sanders and co. in the US. Yet they, too, basically seem to aim for what amounts to more equality by giving the poorer sections basic security in jobs, healthcare etc. - which they should have in the first place. That’s not quite the same as communism, even if Sanders doesn’t seem like the most practical person in the world when it comes to realistic implementation. Yet without such parties and politicians as the CCF and Sanders, respectively, to push the government, many necessary changes might never come to pass.
The website with the Saskatchewan CCF description looks like a good Canadian history resource for homeschooled autistic kids, by the way! :)