Communist candidate takes another shot at St. Catharines
Saleh Waziruddin will again be carrying the Communist party banner in St. Catharines.
The St. Catharines resident has run twice in the riding, provincially and federally, and continues to be passionate about the party’s platform.
“I am running because we need MPPs who represent the majority of us conscripted into poverty and unemployment, starting with defending and extending the new minimum wage and labour standards. The Liberal government has already taken away holiday pay from part-time workers, saying it’s not fair to full timers, but that’s not true — it doesn’t affect full-timers,” he said.
“If you work you should be paid for the holiday, that’s the point of having stat holidays.”
He is also advocating for the elimination of “deeming” deductions of minimum wage from injured workers’ compensation because they are assumed or “deemed” to be working a minimum-wage job.
Waziruddin has also set his sights on reform to the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority board. He says the board should be replaced, part of a special resolution the Communist party called for in June 2017.
“They’re supposed to be protecting the environment,” he said, adding they appear more focused on economic development.
Waziruddin encourages residents to familiarize themselves with the party’s plan at communistpartyontario.ca. From electoral reform job creation, to expanding health care to include full coverage of services such as dental care, vision care, pharmacare, mental health care and long-term care, to developing a new funding program for a proposed, single, secular public school system, he said there are many planks that appeal to electors in Ontario.
The party, he said, will finance its platform through doubling the corporate tax rate and restoring the corporate capital tax which was dropped to zero in 2010.