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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Right now it's a bit of an emergency and we can't be too picky. The priority is to keep the Conservatives away from power, or our country could go the way the USA is, our minorities and immigrants will be persecuted, our economy will suffer, and it will become impossible to achieve anything positive politically. You can't make an alliance with the Conservatives while they are in thrall to MAGAism, and they can't be trusted when their MAGA buddies in the USA have their sights on annexing Canada.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also Carney is notorious for being a hard-bargainer and is probably the best choice we have right now during a trade war, considering his track record in England.

That being said as far as progression goes, i question his priorities with Canada considering he's a bank guy. Hopefully one day we can have an NDP opposition again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The only way we're ever really going to get a healthy democracy back is if people show up to VOTE. Doesn't matter if your candidate will definitely win, doesn't matter if your candidate will definitely lose. We need HIGH TURNOUT to show ALL politicians Canadians are upset and we mean business and signal that we will hold them accountable, an engaged electorate terrifies them. They love the apathy, they love the status quo, they love how it lets them rely on the special interest groups who always vote. But those special interests don't represent us, and the more they rely on them for votes the less they care about the rest of us. We need to scare them to get them to actually listen to us and keep them on their best behavior.

If you don't vote you're not keeping your vote away from them -- you're giving it to them. Decline your ballot if you don't want to actually vote. But you have to show up to be counted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
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