Meet Municipal Socialist Alliance candidate, Corey David for Scarborough Southwest, Ward 20
Meet our candidate Corey David for Scarborough South, Ward 20. Learn more about Corey at Municipal Socialist Alliance website, https://municipal.socialistalliance.ca and Corey's campaign website, https://corey-david.ca.
Municipal Socialist Alliance candidate, Corey David, is running for City Council in the Scarborough Southwest, Ward 20 by-election. Corey was the Socialist Action candidate in the January 2021 Scarborough Agincourt by-election.
He championed social housing, quality public long-term care and health care, workers’ power, and police abolition. Corey is a member of the Amalgamated Transit Workers' Union. Previously, he worked as a machinist for 7 years, and before that he supported individuals with developmental disabilities, working as front-line staff at Community Living Toronto and the Toronto District School Board.
In 2020 Corey David campaigned to stop the for-profit housing development at the Quarry Lands, which destroyed the natural habitat and park space — another reason radical change is needed at City Hall. Vote Socialist on November 30, or at the advance polls.
While the Municipal Socialist Alliance (MSA) was formed by revolutionary socialists, anti-poverty organizers, and disability-justice organizers as an electoral alliance, our primary goal remains radical transformation of society rather than electoral success. In running an electoral campaign, we seek to build up our community-based power in order to tear down oppressive systems and institutions and replace status quo corporate domination with a government run by and for the working class and the oppressed.
MSA do not sacrifice the basic principles of liberation and justice for all in order to win elections. We participate in elections to challenge entrenched power and to re-orient discussion towards the fundamental societal transformation needed for the masses to live comfortably and in harmony with our neighbours and nature.
For socialist transformation of our society, MSA seeks to dismantle the systems of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, hetero-normative patriarchy, and white supremacy.
