-Vote Canada, 

-elbows up against Trump, 

-impose tariffs to match the Yanks’ 

– that sloganeering helped the Liberals win the election. They managed to snatch a victory from the Tories who a mere 12 weeks ago were poised to take a majority government.   

Vote Palestine is the campaign to get MP wannabes to support five critical demands in support of Palestine: 

– Two-way arms embargo on Israel

 – Ending Canadian support for settlements

– Combat anti-Palestinian racism and protect pro-Palestine speech

– Recognizing the state of Palestine

– Funding Gaza relief efforts, including UNRWA

While virtually all the NDP and Green Party candidates (and not one Tory) signed on to Vote Palestine, a surprising number of Liberals also endorsed it – and virtually all of them won their seats. What will it be like to have nearly 12% of MPs in the Liberal government demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

Will any of the Vote Palestine MPs be in cabinet?

Will any demand Parliament pass a rule that MPs be prohibited from taking the free “junkets to genocide” – free trips to Israel courtesy of pro-Israel lobbyists in Canada?

Will any oppose the tyranny of creating “bubble zones” in Canada’s cities – areas around schools, houses of worship, daycares, hospitals, or sports facilities in which peaceful protests cannot take place.  

And that is for a start. 

The real issue is how long can our government deny a genocide is going on – and speak for its victims – not its perpetrators.  

(Note:  All 7 elected NDP-MPs, plus Elizabeth May, Green Party MP signed Vote Palestine)

Painting at the top: “Humours of an Election” by William Hogarth (1754-55). This painting is at the Soane Museum, London, UK. This is an oil painting, one of four to commemorate a 1754 election. According to Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow, this was loosely based on the 1754 Oxfordshire elections, in which the 1752 calendar change was one of a number of issues brought up by Tory opponents to the Whig candidate for MP (the son of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, who had been influential in passing the calendar law). The painting shows a Whig banquet, and “Give us our Eleven Days” is a stolen Tory campaign banner.