For the upcoming 2015 federal election, the CCU campaign “Raise Your Voice, Cast Your Vote” has sent Canada’s five major parties a document consisting of nineteen questions on economic, labour, social, democratic and international issues. The NDP, Greens, Bloc Quebecois and Liberals have responded (see below). We still have not received responses from the Conservative Party after repeated emails and phone calls.
Read the Responses
For far too long, elections and political parties have ignored the concerns of workers, and it has caused millions of them to stay at home on voting day. That’s why we asked the parties directly about their views on unions, wages, collective bargaining and workers’ rights.
Voter turnout has been rapidly declining in Canada, and statistics show that it is especially low-income and working class families that aren’t exercising their voting rights. “Raise Your Voice, Cast Your Vote” was designed specifically to speak to the concerns of workers and progressive-minded people in Canada today.
