electoral reform | Politics, Re-Spun

Imtiaz Popat and I celebrated Labour Day on “The Rational” last night. The video podcast is below.

We discussed:

Labour Day
my Labour Day article today: “Labour Day, Dignity and Doubling the CPP”
volunteer labour
dignity for seniors
doubling the CPP because $11,000/year is unacceptable
BC’s pathetic minimum wage
a fall federal election could lead to a Liberal minority government and time to leverage them for economic dignity
student poverty is a result of right wing ideological choices: post-secondary education is seen as an income boost and the government wants its cut
the government is managing our CPP funds by investing in tar sands and privatized highways
BC’s Gateway Project and the North American transportation infrastructure vs. Peak Oil
workers and unions need to engage in society by working in coalition with community groups and climate justice
corporations and government employers are not taking the lead on greening our society, so workers need to
extremism, xenophobia and skapegoating
increased corporate profitability, how productivity gains aren’t trickling down to workers: class war
all majority governments are bad right now, especially considering how much of the social conservative agenda being introduced by Harper with just a minority government
BC Conservative party’s increasing viability, along with the BC Greens means more of a chance of a BC minority government in 2013
what will it take for a BC political party to say they’ll actually get rid of the HST?
and we would have talked about this intensely if I had read it in time!

The video podcast of the conversation lives at Vista Video.

You can watch it in Miro, the best new open source multimedia viewing software: http://www.miroguide.com/feeds/8832

or…

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http://vimeo.com/14760536

Enjoy!

Politics, Re-Spun