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For Liberal links with the Trade Unions

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The New Democratic Party of Canada has joined the three largest provincial parties of Québec in a celebration of the creation of the FTQ (major québécois trade union) Solidarity Fund, in an attempt to demonstrate to the syndicates that the party is indeed the one to be chosen to represent the workers of Québec in Ottawa, and hopefully in time obtain their endorsement, which has been with the Bloc Québécois for nearly 2 decades (since its creation and especially since Trade Union head Gilles Duceppe came to the forefront of the party in 1997).

This is an extremely shrewd move which comes upon the revelation that the NDP is more popular with Francophone Québécois than the Liberal Party of Canada, though just marginally so. The NDP is conducting itself in the correct manner for any party that wishes to court the working class. The Liberal Party of Canada should attempt to become the party of the Canadian masses, through the building of links with the trade union movement. The people of Canada have their greatest protection in their syndicates, and it is up to the visionaries in the Liberal Party to see that it is within this movement that success lies.

A connection between the trade unions and the Liberal Party would not only be beneficial to the working class, it would be helpful to the Liberal Party in steering it towards policies that are truly progressive and for the improvement of the majority of Canadian people's lives. The protection and amelioration of workers status should be at the forefront of any Liberal agenda, and it is only with the trade unions that the party can ever truly represent the working class of Canada.