What kind of a Canada do you want to live in? Do you want a country where kids go to school hungry, where a teenage girl gets pregnant just because she doesn t have the money to buy birth control, where the only young Canadians who can buy their own homes are those with parents who can help with a down payment, and where the public sphere is so degraded, and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot?
00:00:00.000But I would also like to ask Canada's 1%, in fact, Canada's 0.13%, to consider this.
00:00:13.380What kind of a Canada do you want to live in?
00:00:17.700Do you want to live in a country where kids go to school hungry?
00:00:21.540Do you want to live in a country where a teenage girl gets pregnant just because she doesn't have the money to buy birth control?
00:00:33.120Do you want to live in a country where the only young Canadians who can buy their own homes are those with parents who can help with a down payment?
00:00:42.720Do you want to live in a country where we make the investments we need in health care, in housing, in old age pensions,
00:00:52.740but we lack the political will to pay for them and choose instead to pass a ballooning debt onto our children?
00:01:02.600Do you want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury,
00:01:11.080but must do so in gated communities, behind ever higher fences, using private health care and airplanes,
00:01:20.160because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot?
00:01:32.600Every Canadian across our great country needs to ask themselves these same questions because the stakes could not be higher.