Sherlocks home
This is a serious question, I hear about the middle class daily, what about the working class? What about the welders, carpenters etc. To me the middle class is a professional, doctor, dentist etc, working class is non professional work, it seems that help is going to go to one sector of the population, leaving out the poor and the elderly, unless I have heard wrong or simply do not understand Canada's 'class' system. Again this is a serious question.

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-where-the-leaders-are-aug17-1.3193295

jessica murray
politicians focus on the middle class because polls suggest that most people consider themselves in it, from people near the poverty line to people in big suburban houses.

if they went out and talked about helping the poor (the "lower middle class"), they'd alienate the bourgeois class. if they went out and talked about helping the rich (the "upper middle class"), they'd alienate the working class.

some people also suggest it's a way to avoid using marxist language, but it's no doubt a secondary point. it's just an attempt to think the entire audience is being spoken to.

what you want to do is take a closer look at the various policies and see what the actual numbers are. the language is constructed to gloss over this, and will be obsolete in a few years - once politicians realize that voters today have unlimited access to details and aren't afraid to go find it.