In Halifax, Tony Seed is again putting forward the MLPC's No Harbour for War platform, calling on people to work towards establishing an anti-war government and a People's Canada. Whatever party or combination of parties "wins" the election, Canadians will be faced with a war government, Tony points out.

"This election was called as the party cartel unanimously voted in Parliament to join the US-NATO war against the sovereign country of Libya under the pretext of a United Nations Security Council resolution. The Canadian Forces should be brought home at once and used strictly for national defence. They should not be used to defend what are called Canadian interests or 'values' abroad where the multinationals are looking to make the big score and the big powers are contending over strategic spheres of interest. Veterans should reject the cynical pressure to become a vote bank for this or that warmongering party. This call does not begin and end with the election. It necessitates practical politics to bring about new arrangements, such as the re-establishment of political forums in the community which continue well after the election," Tony says.

During this election, as part of the work to build the independent politics of the working class, Tony and his colleagues in the Halifax May Day Committee are also organizing the 5th annual May Day Rally and March. They invite the workers, youth and seniors and their collectives to assemble on May First, International Workers Day, in Victoria Park, beginning at 2 p.m., and put forward their demands in defence of the rights of all. "Let us together uphold public right, not monopoly right and hold governments to account," Tony says.