{"id":68042,"date":"2020-09-16T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=68042"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:04","slug":"larry-savage-and-simon-black-how-erin-otooles-strategy-to-win-over-union-voters-could-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/09\/larry-savage-and-simon-black-how-erin-otooles-strategy-to-win-over-union-voters-could-work\/","title":{"rendered":"LARRY SAVAGE and SIMON BLACK: How Erin O\u2019Toole\u2019s strategy to win over union voters could work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Savage, Professor of Labour Studies, and Simon Black, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-erin-otooles-strategy-to-win-over-union-voters-could-work-146259?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2016%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2016%202020+CID_df4e0344d89ee0ab0c7affbc82eafc8d&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20Erin%20OTooles%20strategy%20to%20win%20over%20union%20voters%20could%20work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the implementation of a strategy of economic nationalism by new Conservative Party leader Erin O\u2019toole.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;On Labour Day, the Conservative Party\u2019s new leader, Erin O\u2019Toole,\u00a0released a video\u00a0touting his new &#8216;Canada First&#8217; economic strategy.\u00a0<\/em><em>In it, he blames big government, corporate elites and bad trade deals for Canada\u2019s ailing manufacturing and forestry sectors, and offers his Canada First economic strategy as the path towards higher wages and prosperity.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>O\u2019Toole singles out China, in particular, as a threat to Canadian jobs. He also touts the importance of ramping up domestic production of key consumer goods.\u00a0<\/em><em>O\u2019Toole\u2019s messaging sounds eerily similar to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial\u00a0America First policy\u00a0of isolation and protectionism.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-erin-otooles-strategy-to-win-over-union-voters-could-work-146259?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2016%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20September%2016%202020+CID_df4e0344d89ee0ab0c7affbc82eafc8d&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20Erin%20OTooles%20strategy%20to%20win%20over%20union%20voters%20could%20work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Savage, Professor of Labour Studies, and Simon Black, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the implementation of a strategy of economic nationalism by new Conservative Party leader Erin O\u2019toole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[110,522,4358,3856,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68044,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042\/revisions\/68044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}