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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And his COVID response was solid.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

And his Trump handling is world class

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

And legalizing weed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I wish it was electoral reform: [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And election reform right? That was a huge part of his initial platform.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

... and that was his biggest failure for which I'll never forgive him.

You know how smöl PP might be our next PM? (Polling is shifting towards LPC but it's still quite possible)... had he actually gotten serious about MMP or PR the CPC's extremist views wouldn't stand a chance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah and that...

The irony will take the sting out if a Liberal-NDP split lets the Conservatives skate up the middle.

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

Could be worse you could live in the States or North Korea... It's getting hard to tell the difference other that that the current firing squads are restricted to convinced criminals...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Their fall doesn't excuse our shortcomings. We can do better.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

In purely fiscal terms, study after study shows that a dollar invested in child care yields a greater financial return over a lifetime than any other expenditure of public funds.

Much of the world (notably South Korea, Japan, et al) need to take a close look at this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Didn't he already abdicate and the Liberal party operators were picking another monarch? We should wait for the white smoke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me you don't understand how our country works without telling me...

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

Oh, I know exactly how party politics, FPTP and the parliamentary system works.