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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, September/October 2016 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, September/October 2016 Contributors Simon Enoch ongoing contributor to the Jeremy Appel is Director of the CCPA’s Trade and Investment Vol. 23, No. 3 is a Toronto-based journalist Saskatchewan Office of the Research Project and ISSN 1198-497X whose work has appeared Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative Federal Budget. Canada Post Publication 40009942 Alternatives. He holds a PhD on TVO.org, in the Toronto Jim Silver in communication and culture CCPA Monitor is published six times Sun, the CCPA Monitor is Chair of the University of a year by the Canadian Centre for from Ryerson University and numerous campus Winnipeg’s department of Policy Alternatives. with a research interest in publications. He has a urban and inner-city studies, corporate social responsibility The opinions expressed in the CCPA master’s degree in American which runs an off-campus and political ecology. Monitor are those of the authors studies from Western program in Winnipeg’s and do not necessarily reflect University in London, Ontario. Melissa Graham North End, and has been the views of the CCPA. Taylor Bendig is a social worker and an active member of the Please send feedback to disability activist living in group working over the past [email protected]. is a Regina- born and based researcher and historian, and Toronto, Ontario. She is the decade in Lord Selkirk Park. Editor: Stuart Trew a graduate of the University founder and co-organizer His latest book is Solving Senior Designer: Tim Scarth of Regina’s journalism of the Toronto Disability Poverty: Innovative Solutions Layout: Susan Purtell program. Aside from his work Pride March, now in its from Winnipeg’s Inner City Editorial Board: Peter Bleyer, sixth year. She contributed (Fernwood Publishing, 2016). Kerri-Anne Finn, Seth Klein, Kate with CCPA-Saskatchewan, he McInturff, Erika Shaker, Emily Turk was a researcher for the North writing to the upcoming He is a founding member Central Community History edited collection Mobilizing and member of the steering CCPA National Office: Project, the Connaught School Metaphor: Art, Culture, and committee of the CCPA- 500-251 Bank St., Ottawa, Disability Activism in Canada Manitoba. ON K2P 1X3 Centennial History Project, and maintains the blog Sit tel: 613-563-1341 and the Saskatchewan Andrew Stevens Down, Fight Back. fax: 613-233-1458 Government and General is Co-editor of Rankandfile.ca [email protected] Employees’ Union Centennial Asad Ismi and Assistant Professor, HELP US SHED LIGHT ON THE www.policyalternatives.ca History Project. Twitter: @ccpa is an independent journalist industrial relations facebook.com/policyalternatives Davida Bentham and activist who covers and human resource international affairs for the management, at the ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOU. CCPA BC Office: is an activist and community Monitor. University of Regina. 1400-207 West Hastings St., organizer in Saskatoon, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7 Treaty 6 territory. She Naomi Klein Taylor-Anne Yee (we’ve got some bright ideas) tel: 604-801-5121 is a law student at the is an award-winning is an environmentalist and fax: 604-801-5122 University of Saskatchewan [email protected] journalist, syndicated social advocate who loves and is passionate about columnist and author of the video games, bunnies and her CCPA Manitoba Office: environmental, immigration, international bestsellers, prairie home of Saskatoon, Unit 205-765 Main St., Winnipeg, and Indigenous rights and This Changes Everything: Saskatchewan. MB R2W 3N5 reconciliation. Tax receipts are issued for contributions of $15 or more. tel: 204-927-3200 Capitalism vs The Climate MAKE A DONATION fax: 204-927-3201 Angela Carter (2014), The Shock Doctrine: [email protected] is Assistant Professor in The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). I would like to make a monthly contribution of: I would like to make a one-time donation of: CCPA Nova Scotia Office: the department of political OR P.O. Box 8355, Halifax, NS B3K 5M1 science at the University of Erica Violet Lee $25 $15 $10 Other ____ $300 $100 $75 Other ____ tel: 902-240-0926 Waterloo. She researches is a Nēhiyaw writer, student [email protected] comparative environmental and community organizer. CCPA Ontario Office: policy regimes surrounding She has a BA in philosophy PAYMENT TYPE: 10 Dundas Street East, oil developments, primarily and political studies from the I would like to receive my P.O. Box 47129, Toronto, in Alberta, Newfoundland and University of Saskatchewan I’ve enclosed a cheque (made payable to CCPA, or void cheque for monthly donation) subscription to The Monitor: ON, M5B 0A1 Labrador, and Saskatchewan. and lives in inner city tel: 416-598-5985 VISA MASTERCARD I’d like to make my contribution by: By e-mail [email protected] Emily Eaton Saskatoon, a few blocks from is Associate Professor in the where the first Idle No More Mailed to my address CCPA Saskatchewan Office: teach-in was held in winter CREDIT CARD NUMBER: 2nd Floor, 2138 McIntyre Street department of geography Don Sparrow Regina, SK S4P 2R7 and environmental studies 2012. This month’s cover artist is a No Monitor, thanks EXPIRY DATE: SIGNATURE: tel: 306-924-3372 at the University of Regina. Rachel Malena-Chan professional illustrator who fax: 306-586-5177 For a photographic and is a climate justice organizer trained at the University [email protected] accessible overview of oil and community health of Saskatchewan before in the province please see researcher in Saskatoon. moving on to Canada’s CONTACT INFORMATION her newly released book prestigious Sheridan College, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (with photographer Valerie where he completed a post- Name Return this form to: Zink), Fault Lines: Life and is a researcher at the CCPA graduate course in advanced Landscape in Saskatchewan’s where he focuses on federal illustration. In his spare 500-251 BANK ST. Oil Economy (University of and provincial climate change time, Don writes plays, plays Addresss OTTAWA, ON K2P 1X3 Manitoba Press). policy in Canada. He is an baseball and reads comics. He lives in his prairie home City Province Postal Code Or donate online at: with his loving wife, Heather, WWW.POLICYALTERNATIVES.CA and their sparkling children. Telephone (Required) Email Yes, I prefer to receive my tax receipt Please do not trade my name with other and updates by email. organizations. REGISTERED CHARITY #124146473 RR0001 ON THE COVER Getting to know Brad /16 With help from guest editor Simon Enoch, director of the CCPA-Saskatchewan, the Monitor takes a closer look at the Wall government’s social, environmental and labour policies, and their worrying appeal beyond the prairies. SEPT/OCT 2016 Behind the Numbers Fraser Institute fudges case for new export pipelines /David Hughes /6 Canada Post’s reality check is in the mail Erika Shaker /7 Should we end the alcohol monopoly in Quebec? Julia Posca and Simon Tremblay-Pepin /8 IN THE NEWS Note from the editor Why Canada needs Black Lives Matter /2 Anthony Morgan /10 Letters /4 FEATURES New from the CCPA Edward Said’s surprising conversation with climate /9 justice /Naomi Klein /39 Index: Labour reform and repression in France inclusive Asad Ismi /45 growth /11 Arts The good news page Competing paths to urban renewal: Jim Silver /38 considers Sylvie Tissot’s Gentrifying Diversity /47 Rianka Singh reviews Michael Prince’s Struggling For Social Citizenship /51 Jeremy Appel considers a Hillary Clinton presidency with Queen of Chaos author Diana Johnstone /52 Note from the editor Stuart Trew More than a rambling man N LATE AUGUST, Saskatchewan Pre- a new saw mill), Crescent Point En- gal forms of job action persist in the mier Brad Wall told CTV Saska- ergy (the province’s largest tight oil “prolonged period of mediation and toon he was the proud new owner producer), Husky Energy (for heavy conciliation…required before work of Waylon Jennings’ 1973 Cadillac oil thermal projects), R.I.I. North stoppages can commence.” El Dorado convertible. “It’s kind of America (“enhanced” oil recovery Subsequent labour reforms in the an outlaw car,” he said. “I think it’s through steam injection), BHP Bil- 2014 Saskatchewan Employment Act Igot a bit of an aitude.” It sure does. liton (carbon capture and storage) satisfied “the ideological marker of The El Dorado makes no apologies for and the K+S Potash Canada (for a the Saskatchewan Party and its po- burning up 23 litres of gasoline per new mine). “Saskatchewan supplies litical allies,” yet stopped short of un- 100 km of road. For comparison, a ful- energy to Canada and to the world,” ion busting, writes Stevens. Though ly loaded Ford F-350 Super Duty pick- he said. “What we do here makes Can- the law—alongside the privatiza- up truck (one of the most common- ada a beer place. What we do here tion of liquor stores and increased ly stolen vehicles in the province, by makes the world a beer place.” use of P3s for social infrastructure— the way) can go the same distance on At a recent CCPA retreat in Toron- further empowered capital and un- less than 10 litres of fuel. On a trip in to, the centre’s Saskatchewan direc- dermined union influence, the Wall the new car with his daughter, Wall tor, Simon Enoch, argued convinc- government’s consultative process blew out a tire and damaged the radi- ingly that the rest of Canada should and public relations strategy killed ator. It had to be towed back to Swi pay closer aention to “what we do” any hope labour might have had Current for repairs. in his province, because it is proba- in resisting the bill or finding a bet- For a vintage car lover, these are bly not making Canada or the world ter balance.
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