Where is Canada's Bernie Sanders?

Are you feeling the Bern?



The Bernie Sanders campaign is inspiring millions with its message of democratic socialism. From Black Lives Matter to the Fight for $15 to the Chicago Teachers Bernie's campaign is being driven by burgeoning mass movements fighting for real change. In Britain Jeremy Corbyn has won the leaderhsip of the labour party with the backing to tens of thousands of working class supporters who joined New Labour to fight for his avowedly socialist program.



In Canada the Liberals swept to office just four months ago on promises of "Real Change" but have rapidly disappointed even the mildest of expectations from their government. From expanding Canada's war in Iraq and possibly reentering Libya to defending arms sales to mass Human Rights violator, Saudi Arabia, to recommiting to buildling pipelines for expanding the Alberta Tar Sands it's becoming clear for many that Justin Trudeau's Liberals are Harper's business as usual with a smile and nice hair.

Meanwhile the NDP under Tom Mulcair ran a disastrous campaign that focused on Fiscal Responsibility and was outflanked to the left by Trudeau's promises of deficit spending to create jobs. As Mulcair's leadership review looms at the NDP convention in April many are rightfully asking how it is that the NDP leadership could be so out of touch at a time when Sanders and Corbyn are transforming the terrain of electoral politics and connecting it with mass movements against the ravages of neo-liberal capitalism.

In Canada it has become a commonplace question: "Where is our version of Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn?" Join us to hear some answers to that question and discuss what it would take for a campaign like that to emerge in Canada.