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No to
Privatization!
Block the Schemes of the Liberals and PCs to
Steal Our Public Assets to Pay the Rich!
  April 15, 2014 -
The Wynne government has announced it is selling off
public real estate in Toronto, selling its shares in GM and
establishing a panel to "review" other government assets -- Hydro One,
Ontario Power Generation and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario -- all
as part of a plan to raise funds for a so-called Trillium Trust that is
being created to finance $29 billion in infrastructure and public
transit over 10 years.
It all sounds very noble but of course has been decided behind the
backs of the people who are not party to any evaluation of either the
assets or the infrastructure projects. In addition, the government has
also announced that it will be tabling its latest
austerity/pay-the-rich budget on May 1.
 The theft of Ontario's
public assets is being carried out at an ever
faster rate through privatization in the form of public-private
partnerships and other schemes to have the public finance private
profit. It removes immense amounts of added-value from the economy and
puts it in the hands of the filthy rich who destroy societies to enrich
themselves further and maintain their positions of privilege. Not to
mention the way these "partnerships" are used to attack the wages and
working conditions of the working people. Meanwhile, the government
also uses its stranglehold on the decision-making power to dictate
austerity for the working people in order to steal more funds for its
schemes.
The Liberals hope upon hope that the working people will be lulled to
sleep with their claims of not "pre-judging" the outcome of their
review. This is a fraud to hide that the Liberals are putting their
ducks in a row to emerge as champions in the next election by defeating
the PCs and winning a majority in the Legislature.
The working people of Ontario cannot afford to side with either the
Liberals or the PCs in the mistaken belief that one or the other, or
any other champion of neo-liberal assumptions for the economy, is a
lesser evil. Opposition to the austerity agenda and its corollary, the
sell-off and privatization of public assets, is a serious first step to
depriving the monopolies and the governments in their service of the
power to deprive the workers of what belongs to them by right -- wages
and working conditions and a retirement commensurate with the standard
of living they have created for themselves, as well as the right to
health care and education at the standard society has achieved for
themselves and their families. As for the cost of infrastructure the
working people require, not the rich, it can be readily financed in a
manner which is not destructive to the economy and the people if the
motive to do so were present and governments stop paying the rich.
By building on the experiences they have already gained, the working
people can establish a new landmark from which to advance their own
pro-social program for the society.
Hands Off Our Public Assets!
Stop
Governments from Paying the Rich!
Hold Governments to Account!
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