Recent months have seen significant activity in Canada’s labour movement — including a public service strike, actions against austerity across the country, and the CLC convention in Montreal. This month, our panel examined recent developments in Canada’s labour movement and dared to ask the question: what’s next?

Guests this month included MP Alexandre Boulerice, OSBCU – CSCSO president Laura Walton, policy expert and rabble columnist Chuka Ejeckam and rabble parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg.

During the panel, we took three polls:

About our guests

Alexandre Boulerice has been the Member of Parliament for Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie in Montreal for 12 years.  In addition to being Deputy Leader of the party, Alexandre is the NDP Labour Critic. He is currently leading the fight for the adoption of a bill to ban replacement workers at the federal level.

Laura Walton was elected president of OSBCU in 2019, having first served as its vice-president. Formerly, she was president of CUPE 1022, which represents education workers at Hastings and Prince Edward County District School Board. 

Chuka Ejeckam is a writer and policy researcher. His work focuses on inequity and inequality, drug policy, structural racism, and labour. He is also a columnist for rabble.

Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s parliamentary correspondent and a regular panelist on Off the Hill.

Off the Hill is a fast-paced live panel on current issues of national significance, hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies. Off the Hill focuses on the impact politics and policy have on people, and on ways to mobilize to bring about progressive change in national politics — on and off the hill. To support this panel, visit rabble.ca/donate.