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Tyson Riel Strandlund

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Children, Childcare, & Youth in Care

Childcare

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promises

Accelerate plans for province-wide universal, affordable, quality child care.
Accelerate plans for province-wide universal, affordable, quality child care.
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Climate Change & the Environment

Conservation

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Prioritize renewable energy and conservation.

Projects

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Stop the Site “C” dam, LNG/Coastal GasLink fossil fuel project, and Transmountain expansion.

Public Transit

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Free public transit for all.

Education

School tuition

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Free tuition. Education should be a right, not a privilege.

Schools and COVID

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Protect health & safety for students, staff and teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Implement SOGI in all school districts.

Better Public Education

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Increase public education spending by $1000 per student to reach the Canadian average. End funding and tax breaks for private & religious schools.

SOGI

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Implement SOGI in all school districts.

Housing & Homelessness

Homelessness

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Build housing for all to save lives and reduce social and health costs of street homelessness.

Housing affordability

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Housing is a human right! Build 100,000 units of new & renovated social and low income housing.

Rent and evictions

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Stop “renovictions” and “demovictions”; ban all evictions during the pandemic. Legislate stricter rent controls.

Human Rights & Equality

Policing

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Cut police and military spending. Transfer funds to renewable energy, housing, health care, and schools.

Sex Workers

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

End the criminalization of sex workers.

Jobs, the Economy, and Affordability

Food security

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

End removals from the Agricultural Land Reserve, encourage food production in urban areas.

Income tax

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Abolish income tax on earnings under $40,000.

Tax the wealthy

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Increase annual revenues by $2.5 billion – restore pre2001 tax rates for the wealthy & corporations.

Mental Health, Drugs, & Addiction

Mental health support

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Expand mental health services and long term recovery support programs.

Policing of drugs

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

The “war on drugs” and the opioid crisis must end.

Safe supply

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Establish a permanent, safe, legal and regulated supply of drugs.

Transit & Transportation

Infrastructure

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Put resources under public ownership and democratic control. End P3 public projects.

Transit fares

Tyson Riel Strandlund's promise

Free public transit for all.

Biography

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Tyson is 28, a Métis activist and organiser, presently pursuing his Master's degree at UVic's history department in the Cultural, Social, & Political Thought program. He has long been involved with the anti-racist, decolonial, peace, environmental, labour, and student movements.

A lifetime resident of Vancouver Island, Tyson is presently working towards completing his M.A. in history in the University of Victoria’s Cultural, Social, & Political Thought program, having received his B.A. in history. Tyson is writing his Master's thesis on the historic relationship between the socialist countries and the national liberation / anti-colonial movements. In addition to UVic, Tyson has spent time studying in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Tyson has a history of activism in a variety of areas, including the anti-racist, peace, labour, environmental, and student movements, playing an organizing role in student strikes and rallies against tuition hikes. Tyson is Métis, proudly tracing his family tree back to Louis Riel, and is a fierce advocate of indigenous sovereignty and decolonization.

He is the organiser for the Communist Party of Canada's Victoria club, and a member of the Young Communist League's Central Executive Committee. Tyson also co-founded the Olive Tree Group, a local Palestinian human rights organisation dedicated to raising public awareness of the ongoing dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people, and to support non-violent direct action in support of the Palestinian cause. In the past, Tyson has worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Victoria in the history department, a music teacher, a painter, labourer, senior’s home server, and entertainer. Additionally, Tyson has experience in international solidarity and relationship building, having participated as a delegate, participant, and keynote speaker at a variety of youth and student congresses and other events around the world, even hosting a webinar with Bolivian President Evo Morales last June.

"Horgan’s snap election is a reckless and undemocratic power grab that puts the people of this province in danger. We can’t go back to the Liberals, but we can’t let this cynical premier get a majority either. He needs to be punished at the polls, and there is a socialist alternative on the ballot!"


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