That’s not true for every riding. Vote strategically using 338canada.com.
Based on current projections there is minimal risk of NDP winning enough seats to seriously hurt Liberals positions over Conservatives.
If your riding is leaning conservative but NDP is a close second, you should vote NDP, not Liberal (if that’s consistent with your values).
A Liberal minority government is the best outcome of this election on my opinion. An unchecked Carney is a risk of over-privatization (though not nearly as dangerous as Conservatives).
If there is another minority, the NDP can (as they did over the last 4 years) have a role in promoting their policies while providing the balance of power.
Liberals seem to me to be the most reckless, increasing spending while not raising taxes. They already removed the capital gains tax, and we now spend more on interest than on health transfers, meanwhile we have a doctor shortage.
They just let the future to pay it off, then we suffer like under Chretien.
No, unfunded spending isn’t future austerity. It could be in some cases, but it rarely is. In fact unfunded spending could mean future prosperity. For example building high speed rail or doing R&D for vaccines. We should spend the money for both today as both produce much more in the future than what’s spent. Austerity is usually ideologically driven, not by necessity. We’ve understood this since the Great Depression and we’ve battle tested the Keynes approach. The austerity periodically practiced since the 70s-80s required convincing a lot of people to believe in the free market fundamentalism preached by neoliberalism. It’s time to relearn what we knew before that.
We need to tax the rich, not to fund our government, but to decrease the drastic power they have over our economy, the state and our lives.
Our per capita GDP is basically unchanged since Liberals took over, as the US did very well. So clearly we didn’t build infrastructure with the money which is my problem with the Liberals.
100%. However Carney has come out and said in clear terms this is going to change in concrete ways. Also I liked something he mentioned in a presser the other day - they’ll be getting rid of external consultants and contractors (often large companies) as well as looking at procurement. I read this as curbing public money from going into the Accentures of the world as well as reducing how much we pay service providers like Azure. I suspect curbing dollars going to US companies would also be a priority.
It honestly pains me that my values seem to match the NDP platform, but I’m forced to vote liberal because any other vote would benefit conservatives.
That’s not true for every riding. Vote strategically using 338canada.com.
Based on current projections there is minimal risk of NDP winning enough seats to seriously hurt Liberals positions over Conservatives.
If your riding is leaning conservative but NDP is a close second, you should vote NDP, not Liberal (if that’s consistent with your values).
A Liberal minority government is the best outcome of this election on my opinion. An unchecked Carney is a risk of over-privatization (though not nearly as dangerous as Conservatives).
That domain does not load for me.
Should be 338canada.com.
If there is another minority, the NDP can (as they did over the last 4 years) have a role in promoting their policies while providing the balance of power.
It only works when they are willing to call a vote when they don’t get what was promised.
Is unfunded spending not future austerity?
Liberals seem to me to be the most reckless, increasing spending while not raising taxes. They already removed the capital gains tax, and we now spend more on interest than on health transfers, meanwhile we have a doctor shortage.
They just let the future to pay it off, then we suffer like under Chretien.
No, unfunded spending isn’t future austerity. It could be in some cases, but it rarely is. In fact unfunded spending could mean future prosperity. For example building high speed rail or doing R&D for vaccines. We should spend the money for both today as both produce much more in the future than what’s spent. Austerity is usually ideologically driven, not by necessity. We’ve understood this since the Great Depression and we’ve battle tested the Keynes approach. The austerity periodically practiced since the 70s-80s required convincing a lot of people to believe in the free market fundamentalism preached by neoliberalism. It’s time to relearn what we knew before that.
We need to tax the rich, not to fund our government, but to decrease the drastic power they have over our economy, the state and our lives.
Our per capita GDP is basically unchanged since Liberals took over, as the US did very well. So clearly we didn’t build infrastructure with the money which is my problem with the Liberals.
100%. However Carney has come out and said in clear terms this is going to change in concrete ways. Also I liked something he mentioned in a presser the other day - they’ll be getting rid of external consultants and contractors (often large companies) as well as looking at procurement. I read this as curbing public money from going into the Accentures of the world as well as reducing how much we pay service providers like Azure. I suspect curbing dollars going to US companies would also be a priority.