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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Actually the good thing about a massive win is the party is in some ways less beholden to the unions, I would hope Dix learnt from the Glen Clarke years.
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Hope you're right, it's my main concern with them. I did look at the BC donation database a while back and almost all of their large donations came from unions. Many of the large liberal donations came from corporations, surprising to me how many of them like Telus for instance would openly wade into the political arena.
The NDP platform such as it is doesn't scare me as much economically as some of the folks who lived through past NDP governments. They are claiming they will run a balanced budget and I think that the NDP across Canada know if they want to be a viable political party going forward they need to at least stay close to that with their reputation - the reality of what an NDP government would be has changed, at least a little from the 80s and 90s. Their moves to raise taxes were pretty minimal impact for 95% of the population.
What does worry me is that the Liberals only negotiated very short 2 year Collective Agreements with all of the healthcare unions which will all expire next year and the NDP will be steering the ship on negotiating with groups who basically funded their election. No better than the Libs giving tax breaks to the corporations that funded them but still concerning.
Healthcare is the biggest government expense and wages are the biggest component. The nurses union in particular has a very rich agreement already, many of the RNs here who work a lot of overtime work make more than most of the management structure and their union is extremely powerful.