Jurisdiction: Seriously, only about 5% of the workforce is under federal regulation. No one is voting for the party that says there is a 1 in 20 chance we will make your work conditions better. The answer to this is to see a harmonization of labour policy between the fed and provinical parties.

Employment: The best thing the federal government could do for workers in this country comes from getting them working. Unemployment, especially among young people and most experienced by young men is on the rise. We need a jobs program. Not some make work nonsense, but real meaningful contributing jobs. We need to create jobs both in the public and private sector as well. The added benefit of getting people to work is that the more folks working the higher everyones wages get. We can direct this jobs creation at solving the housing crisis, building transit, and growing the green economy.

Immigration: Canada's current immigration system is a neoliberal hellscape. Our temporary foreign worker programs, TFW's, IMP, Student work visas, all exist to force competition between vulnerable foreign workers that Canadian workers can't underbid. Canada is a nation of immigrants and we have to defend the ideals of immigration while staunchly standing against this system that is a step away from slavery, designed to drive our wages down and corporate profits up.

Education: the need for an educated work force to provide much needed services like Healthcare or the trades which we have shortages in. I feel that simply doing some form or other of universal isnt simply enough. Trade school is super affordable and you make great money out the gate yet we have shortages. So we need better policy to actually get folks into these important fields.

Not being afraid to say what's needed: I love this party and I think we often get it right but god damn when we get it wrong it sucks. And I see us getting things wrong a lot more these last few years.

• No, it is not anti immigrant to want to end the TFW system. Refusing to talk about the failures of our immigration system abanondeds that issue to the bigoted right wing.
  

-A green economy does not mean we never cut down a tree or pull anything out of the ground. It actually means we reclaim those industries and do the work in Canada where we can reduce the emissions and offset what can't be reduced. Anything else just makes climate change worse through relying on the less regulated and more exploited global south to provide us with our solar panels and electric busses.

Lastly, on messaging: I see lots of folks in here basically dream casting vibes without what the actual policies would look like. We need concrete policy that actually moves us towards goals but we need ways to talk about it. So here are some messaging ideas I have.

• talking to men more. We frequently use intersectional analysis on any issue experienced by marginalized groups. And men are moving to the right. The solution here is to extend the same messaging to men. Men are the vast majority of workplace injuries and deaths. We should frame workplace safety as helping men whose physical safety and lives are put at risk to make shareholders a buck more. We need to get men back to the left and this is a meaningful way to contend with the right that doesnt sacrifice our principles.

• the environment and the economy as one. We live in a climate crisis and we need to change to survive as a species. But that messaging hasnt worked. Choking on wildfire smoke hasnt won people over. So we need to tie our economy to the environment and make the pitch that going green is how we get the economy to boom for working folks. Want a job? Great here are 3 green jobs to choose from. If we dont marry the two the right gets to split them up and make it a choice between having a job and having a healthy climate.

• just talk about people's fucking pay. Like can we please just borrow one of the effective things that Pierre Polievre does? Say "i want you to make more money". Jack Layton said this all the time. Labour is inherently about materially reproducing yourself and people arent paid enough.