Erin Sikora: New Democratic Party

October 3rd, 2008

ndp-logo-blog.jpgI’m spending this election blogging and helping my local NDP candidates. This is an important election because we are at an economic crossroads, and the stakes are higher than they have been since, well… since I started following politics anyways.

I’ve been a New Democrat all my life. Scratch that. Let’s be honest. I was raised in Alberta by a New Democrat mom and a Conservative father. They battled it out over my political soul for years.
The battle raged so fiercely that I thought for a while that I should just go be a Liberal to spite them. But I looked into some of the stuff the Liberal government (Chretien/Martin years) was doing, and it turned me right off. This all left me so terribly confused that I shut out politics for a couple years.

Then I moved to BC and tried to go to school. My tuition skyrocketed and I was forced to go into massive debt just to barely scrape by. All because of a combination of federal Liberal governments cutting funding to the provinces, and a provincial Liberal government who removed the freeze on tuition. I learned the hard way that even if you ignore politics, it doesn’t ignore you back.

At the same time, Jack Layton emerged to lead the NDP and pulled me back to my New Democratic roots (mom wins).

I’m still behind Jack today because he not only makes me care about politics, he gets me excited about the things we could do with this country. Excuse the gloom and doom, but we are heading into an economic sh@%storm and Jack is the only leader that I trust to make sure that everybody gets through it okay. Jack has ideas, like cancelling corporate tax cuts and investing in new green jobs, that seem like they will keep us safe from the looming American recession and actually solve our economic woes.

Erin Sikora is the Labour Director of the New Democrat Youth of Canada (NDYC) and one of the administrators of the New Democrats Online @ newdemocratsonline.ca. You can also visit her blog @ dipperchick.blogspot.com.

[Ed. note: For more information on Election 2008 and the other parties visit muchmusic.com/beloud].

Posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm by Erin Sikora and is filed under Election 2008.

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4 Responses to “Erin Sikora: New Democratic Party”

  1. I am proud of Jack too!

    By Brandee on October 3, 2008 at 5:51 pm |

  2. Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done: Jack for PM.

    By Ian on October 4, 2008 at 9:51 am |

  3. Thank god someone else out there has a brain. This is my first year voting, but I’ve always been NDP and will always continue to be NDP. After watching the debates the other night I don’t understand how anyone could vote Liberal or Conservative. You couldn’t pay me to vote for them. Jack Layton is the only candidate who has the best interests of Canadians in mind. Why the hell wouldn’t you vote for him?

    By jenna on October 4, 2008 at 12:29 pm |

  4. Good thing Layton formed his coalition with Harper and gave Canadians almost 3 years of climate change inaction.

    Dippers have it easy, promise the world to voters without ever having to actually deliver… pathetic.

    By IR on October 5, 2008 at 4:59 am |

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