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Just because McNeil is leaving doesn't mean the rest of his caucus should be allowed to escape responsibility for this government's egregious record on labour rights, accountability and transparency, housing and the disintegration of our health and social services.
Liberal MLAs stood and applauded surplus budgets, laughed at the call for a $15 minimum wage, refused meaningful action on housing while A THIRD of our provincial workforce can barely afford their housing.
It will be interesting to see whether or not sitting MLAs align themselves with McNeil's legacy of paternalistic austerity once a new leader is chosen.
The pandemic has laid bare many of the deep structural vulnerabilities in our public services. These vulnerabilities were created by McNeil's approach, which belongs to a wider history of public policy characterized by a focus on expanding markets and opportunities for profit.
This is everywhere you look in Canadian health and social policy: Long term care. Home care. Education. Child care. Mental health services. Transportation. Major infrastructure projects. And it is destroying the integrity of the welfare state from the inside out.
This is what we mean when we say that governments are putting profits before people: the chance for someone with access to private capital to make a buck is more important to these folks than whether or not the average person has a roof over their head. We deserve so much better.
