Big Surprise, faux populist backed by real estate moguls
Wait a sec, you’re telling me a career politician and landlord isn’t a working class hero??
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This is no surprise. PP is just a fascist version of Trudeau. Nothing will change except laws targeting the lgbtq community and relaxing environmental regulations.
Is there even a good choice to vote for?
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But it is basically a 2 party system if only libs and cons ever win. It’s a circlejerk.
This is what I’m referring to. In effect it’s a 2 party system, which is frustrating.
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it’s a 2 party system
It’s not, though. FPTP is not a party-based electoral system.
Which, to be fair, is the basis of its criticism, as people want to vote for parties instead of individuals. There are party-based electoral systems, some of which have been suggested as being suitable for use in Canada. But until we get around to actually changing the electoral system we don’t have a party system. All we have is individual representatives.
FPTP strongly weights towards a two-party system (where party means individual or group of individuals). The only real voting choices are to vote for a candidate or to vote against a candidate. Any other choice is wildly ineffective.
There are many other systems that are better representations of the will of the people, both at the political party level and at the candidate level, but the caveat is that the two main parties will almost never be able to exercise the amount of power they currently have again. This may appear to be a good thing to the citizenry, but not to the two main parties.
FPTP strongly weights towards a two-party system
No. It makes absolutely no consideration for parties. It is not a party system. Period.
There are party systems. Many believe we would be better off with a party system. But FPTP is not one of them. It is a single representative system.
Canada is a two-party system, we just happen to have more than two parties in that system.
Edit: downvotes? Really? 2016 and the broken Electoral Reform promise was not that long ago do we have to explain proportional and ranked voting systems and the flaws of first-past-the-post again?
The NDP has about as good policy as you’re going to get in Canada if you care at all about the working class.
Joke all you like, but they’re counting on EXACTLY that. “I hear Trudeau sucks but these guys have no plan. Okay, pick them”
Canadians tend to vote out than vote in. I know there are more parties than liberal or conservative but in our entire history there hasn’t been a parliament that hasn’t been the main two. There really isn’t any good options and it’s infuriating.
The easiest way to solve the housing crisis is to build more housing, so it stands to reason that he would align himself with people wanting to build more.
Canada does have the lowest number of housing units per capita in the G7. It’s not like it isn’t something we don’t need.
Makes sense at first, but REITs mostly don’t build, they mostly buy existing properties and collect rent.
It makes sense to align with developers; it doesn’t make any sense to align with rental property managers.
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Landlords aren’t developers lol
I am far too poor for this timeline.
There is nothing that trump lite offers that is of any use to Canada.
No way!
While I’m opposed to corporate money in politics, the amounts these executives contributed seems rather paltry.
Due to donation limits ($1700 / year), it’s hard to amount to much unless you sprinkle it across all members of the household and donate to the party and EDA too.
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=lim&document=lim2023&lang=e
@OminousOrange @mooniyaw You can thank #JeanCretien for getting #Corporate money out of politics (at least, by direct donations). Surprisingly, #StephenHarper reduced personal contributions even further (a way of owning the #Libs as at the time their party was much better at attricting lots of small doners).
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/pms-donation-plan-stuns-party/article25428665/ #cdnpoliRemoved by mod
What really??? We intentionally legislated the equivalent of Citizens United, one of the worst US Supreme Court decisions on political speech?
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If you liked trump then Squinty McProudBoy is your guy. If you are a decent human being find someone else to vote for. A vote for bitcoin milhouse is a vote for racism, white supremacy, misogyny, and hatred.
Surprised pikachu face
I always hate how we conflate developers and speculators when we talk about real-estate companies. Like, if somebody supports the automobile industry, you’d assume they mean factories and not dealerships.
Hearing Poilievre has support from builders would be good news in a housing crisis. Hearing Poilievre has support from investors and speculators who are gouging people and exploiting the housing crisis, not so much.
When election hopes are based on how much money your campaign has and how much of it is corporately supported …
… it’s starting to look more like a plutocracy rather than a democracy
