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Armine Yalnizyan is a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a contributor to the Progressive Economics Forum.

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    What the right does right

    Progressives in Canada today have no shortage of ideas. What we lack is movement — any movement. There is no women’s movement, no labour movement, no peace movement. The antiglobalization movement fell apart in the wake of 9/11. Copenhagen notwithstanding, even the environmental movement has become more an exercise in individual consumer choice than a demand for systemic change.