Some of Canada’s Biggest Capitalists Are Plotting an Attack on Canadian Workers
Founded by Canada’s most powerful business lobbyists, bankers, and oil companies, the Coalition for a Better Future is crafting a plan to attack workers and reorganize the post-pandemic economy in the interests of the rich.
Former Conservative minister of labour Lisa Raitt cochairs Coalition for a Better Future with former deputy prime minister Anne McLellan. (Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
If, as Marx claimed, the state is a “committee managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie,” then we have reason to assume that Canada’s Coalition for a Better Future (CFABF), founded on August 5, is its focus group. As the country enters its fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, captains of industry and their lackies are dreaming up the post-pandemic world they would like to see. The CFABF will host an economic summit in October to discuss how best to engage a “national conversation” that can ensure that future generations are able to enjoy the “quality of life” to which Canadians are acclimated.
In the group’s first press release, they announced their progressive bona fides:
The goal of this initiative is to build consensus around the need for an ambitious plan for Canada’s economic future — with a clear focus on measures to reduce inequality, raise living standards and tangibly improve the lives of middle-class and disadvantaged Canadians.
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