Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.
“If the hiring practices are still inherently racist, then hiring people of a different background doesn’t do anything. You have people from a diverse background within this racist culture still, and nothing has changed.”
We asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means, and whether 500,000 affordable housing units is enough to address the current shortfall.
“Tactics like that just aren't welcome in a democratic society. We need the provincial government to intervene, and the federal government to intervene.”
Does the NDP's housing plan go far enough to address the current crisis? The Maple asked Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means and if his proposal for a $5,000 renter subsidy is just a bailout for landlords.
“The fact that this government thinks that it can feed the flames with one hand and put them out with the other is ludicrous, and people understand that."
“So far they’ve counted on the Canadian public not caring or not caring enough – that allowed them to perpetrate these injustices.”
“Essentially, on the first full day of the campaign, the Conservatives announce they’re cancelling the agreements in the same way that Stephen Harper cancelled the previous agreements.”
“There’s not been an effort to actually increase voter turnout by the ruling-class parties in Canada.”