Populism isn’t a bad word – and progressives should take it back GlobeDebate
Story continues below advertisementFor champions of the people's causeThe CCF’s message of democratic inclusion and popular struggle puts it sharply in contrast with various populist efforts from Canada’s political right. In the 1980s, the Reform Party – in some ways a successor of the older Social Credit movement – rose to challenge the Eastern Canadian establishment.
Too many centrists have been unwilling to make the structural shift in taxation that’s necessary for a healthy democracy. While failing to join the political left and call for the major overhaul of our tax system – as a healthy democracy requires – many in the political centre have instead preferred to equate Mr. Sanders with the Trumpian right.
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