The reality is that the vast majority of Candians are socially progressive. On every issue from abortion to gun control to LGBTQ rights to social programs Candians lean left to hard left. As these right wing parties swing harder and harder right they appeal to a smaller and smaller extreme voting block. At some point they squeeze themselves out. Especially, like in Ontario, when it becomes so absolutely and undeniably obvious that all of Doug Ford’s talk of helping the little guy is just a series of schemes to enrich a small group of his wealthy developer friends/donors and when the social policies in places like Alberskatchetoba become so obviously about christofascist virtue signaling at the expense of extremely vulnerable children to appeal to fanatical extremists.
What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)
What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)
You’d have to go back to the 50’s/60’s to find a party that lived and breathed those ethics. Think Tommy Douglas, the CCF and early NDP.
Well seeing as one side is desperate to go back to the 50s/60s as far as rights are concerned, why not give them a taste of their own medicine and bring the tax policies back too?
Well said, OP. So glad to see a backlash against alt-right social wedge issues spreading broadly across Canada (and maybe the US if special election results can be trusted).
There was a larger turn out at most counter protest against the anti-SOGI bigots a couple weeks ago.
Hopefully, we don’t see any backsliding federally with Trudeau’s personal lack of popularity giving any inroads to Christofascists in the CPC.
We need to get Millennials and Zoomers to vote. We outnumber the Boomers, finally, so let’s show up at the polls and move the country in a more progressive direction!
Hopefully, we don’t see any backsliding federally with Trudeau’s personal lack of popularity giving any inroads to Christofascists in the CPC.
It’s hard to be optimistic here. I’d like to be. They don’t even need to court the christofascists right now. That protest seemed to be rather integrated with the PPC, so maybe they still have enough steam to split the right vote a bit.
88 to 99 conservatives, 99 to 16 NDP, 16 to 23 conservatives, since 58 the conservatives have won more elections (10 vs 8) and have spent more time in power (37 years vs 30 years using rough numbers)
Well, there is the Keystone Party which is Manitoba only. Their platform when they started during the pandemic was against medical mandates, lock-downs, and Human rights Tribunals.
It would be funny if they didn’t get like 5% of the vote in some areas.
well, they were at about 5% when I stopped watching the live votes. The number could’ve changed afterwards.
This year they ran on:
Carbon taxes are bad
sex ed is bad
Reduce PST
Privatizing healthcare is good
Abattoir regulations
Trying to turn MB into a tourist economy, but also tax cuts for farms because the backbone of the economy, but also focus on being a factory-based economy, but also focus on independent trades. (It’s almost as if they are casting a wide net)
Adding jails and crown attorneys to speed up the court system (but not legal aid or defense attorneys, so it won’t actually make anything faster, because you need 2 to tango)
I’m hoping Waub can keep his promises to try and fix/help our healthcare. Hell, I’d even be good with an increase to our prov sales tax to get it restarted.
How’s the Manitoba NDP in policy direction? Center-left, left, very left? I know there can be significant differences between provincial parties by the same name. E.g. the BC Liberals are a bit like Ontario’s PCs.
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