The sad reality of Canada is such things are just ways to fund new classes of kickbacks to Trudeau and his buddies. Episodes such as ArriveCAN have made even my lefty friends suspicious of all gov spending.
> similar efforts are often derailed by corruption, and there’s no guarantee the money guaranteed for useful things actually finds the way it its original destination
Streaming services have circumvented this and this law changes that for the better.
The kind of cynicism on display about anything that Trudeau does is frankly disconcerting. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.
Good policy is good if you reverse the winners and see if the people implementing it complain. So if we take this tax and fund media for men and white people instead of women, First Nation and immigrants would it still be good policy?
No this is political patronage
And we've been trying to tell you this about the Liberal Party for 50+ years. It's a corrupt opportunistic self-interested institution. There's nothing intrinsically "left wing" about them, they just put up whatever ideological sail will keep their party in power. In the 90s they were the party of austerity. This decade, they're all about "debt doesn't matter" neo-Keynesianism. An election or two later and they'll flip again. But you can count on seeing the same faces and them putting the Party first.
Me: self-identified socialist who knew ArriveCAN was a f*in disaster from the moment it was announced?
I suspect almost complete decimation in the next election, and Singh out right after.
NDP needs to return to delegate based leadership elections.
Huge mis-steps during COVID and after by the NDP. They've completely lost their bearing as a party for working people people.
And people will either credit the Liberals, or just hate Singh for propping up the dreaded Trudeau. Every store or place I go to some baby boomer is ranting at me about Trudeau. Being associated with that gov't in any way is toxic.
Like I said ... tactical move but bad strategically.
Precisely. I think what really grates on people is that the policies pursued are so anti-working class interests while being patronized to from cabinet about it all the time.
This is why despite being libertarian I manage to maintain active friendships with lefties - it is the self serving provably corrupt we cannot stand. I think both of us tend to assume the other leads to an even worse scenario.