It may not have been objectively true, but that was the story the Trudeau campaign wanted to tell and large swaths of people subjectively came to agree with that story. And they won.
"Trudeau’s strategy of outflanking the NDP on the left." Really? If so, how? I know that corporatist media at the time repeated this ad nauseam, but was it ever true?
Maybe I'm missing something? Wasn't the only supposed "left of the NDP" policy proposal by the Trudeau campaign to run budget deficits? Considering those deficits ended up gifting a $35B pipeline to big oil, obviously those funds did not end up going to any leftist cause. It's time to retire the economic fallacy that deficits are intrinsically leftist or progressive. Any economic historian worth their salt will debunk this notion.
It may not have been objectively true, but that was the story the Trudeau campaign wanted to tell and large swaths of people subjectively came to agree with that story. And they won.
"Trudeau’s strategy of outflanking the NDP on the left." Really? If so, how? I know that corporatist media at the time repeated this ad nauseam, but was it ever true?
Maybe I'm missing something? Wasn't the only supposed "left of the NDP" policy proposal by the Trudeau campaign to run budget deficits? Considering those deficits ended up gifting a $35B pipeline to big oil, obviously those funds did not end up going to any leftist cause. It's time to retire the economic fallacy that deficits are intrinsically leftist or progressive. Any economic historian worth their salt will debunk this notion.