“These are decisive times,” Scott says, “but the likely outcomes of this election won’t satisfy an urgently felt need for change. On one hand, Poilievre’s Conservative Party veers to the hard right, styling itself after reactionary forces in the United States and advancing upon vulnerable scapegoats, from queer and trans youth to migrant workers. On the other hand, the Liberals have replied to sweeping discontent over the rising cost of living by swapping Trudeau for a top banker, equally committed to military spending and austerity. Where both parties represent different flanks of a corporate consensus, working people deserve a properly balanced ballot, with an anti-capitalist option in the Communist Party of Canada.”