{"id":31067,"date":"2018-02-16T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31067"},"modified":"2018-02-16T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:44:39","slug":"canada-vs-venezuela-have-the-koch-brothers-captured-canadas-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31067","title":{"rendered":"Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada\u2019s Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada\u2019s Left?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada\u2019s progressive leftists are pushing for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) to abandon its \u201creactionary\u201d foreign policy position on that country. As well, at the annual NDP convention (February 15 \u2013 18), the NDP Socialist Caucus will present a motion requesting the removal of NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Helene Laverdiere from that role.<\/p>\n

In December, the Canadian Dimension published a lengthy Open Letter from Dr. John Ryan, a retired University of Winnipeg professor, documenting the \u201creactionary foreign policy positions\u201d on a variety of issues that the NDP has adopted in recent years, especially through Laverdiere\u2019s role.<\/p>\n

Regarding Venezuela, Dr. Ryan wrote, \u201cOne would think that Canada\u2019s NDP, as a social democratic party, would be supportive of the progressive policies that have been enacted in Venezuela. Surely the bulk of the people who vote NDP would be far more supportive of Venezuela than they would be of U.S. policies to undermine that country. So how is it that the NDP\u2019s maverick foreign affairs critic is capable of aligning herself with American imperialist reactionary policies? There wasn\u2019t a word from her when President Trump threatened to invade Venezuela and she has yet to criticize the recently announced Canadian sanctions\u201d by the federal Liberal government. [1]<\/p>\n

On February 12, Canadian writer Yves Engler extensively documented Helene Laverdiere\u2019s stance toward Venezuela in recent years, and he noted: \u201cIn what may be the first ever resolution to an NDP convention calling for the removal of a party critic, the NDP Socialist Caucus has submitted a motion to next weekend\u2019s convention titled \u2018Hands Off Venezuela, Remove Helene Laverdiere as NDP Foreign Affairs Critic.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Canada vs. Venezuela: Have the Koch Brothers Captured Canada\u2019s Left? Photo by Eden, Janine and Jim | CC BY 2.0 With a U.S.-backed military coup or invasion in Venezuela looking ever more likely, Canada\u2019s progressive leftists are pushing for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) to abandon its \u201creactionary\u201d foreign policy position on that country. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[103,5493,12331,1515,5917,18598,2799,851],"class_list":["post-31067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-counterpunch","tag-joyce-nelson","tag-koch-brothers","tag-ndp","tag-new-democratic-party","tag-socialism","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31068,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions\/31068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}