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Anybody But Conservative
Canadian Unions and Strategic Voting
From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
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In recent elections, many were driven by a desire to block Conservatives from gaining power rather than faith that Liberals would champion union causes. However, because tactical shifts have an educative effect on the union rank and file, and thus help validate ideological shifts over time, union-backed strategic voting campaigns — whether motivated by fear, instrumentalism or a combination of both — threaten to compromise the labour movement’s ability to press its own political agenda, in its own name, in future years.
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Larry Savage
Larry Savage teaches in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.