For a moment there I was wondering why the Girl Guides would object to the secularism policy of the Santa Claus Parade.
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13% may not sound like a lot, but it includes almost all of the 10% who weren't complete idiots.
You're misconstruing what happened, but more importantly still writing as if all you want is a fight. All I wanted was to maybe provoke some discussion from people who know something more than I do about what's going on. Follow-up questions for anyone inclined to participate in this discussion in future (not me) might include asking why this "National Drug Agency" also doesn't exist yet, despite having apparently been promised by the Liberals back in 2019. What happened to it? Did policy change? Are they going to come out and say "of course we're building a pharmacare plan to cover essential drugs, it's what we've promised all along"? If they do, in what ways will it be politically controversial among Liberals or NDP supporters? How long might it realistically be expected to take to establish such and agency and have it produce anything useful, and then how much longer for an actual pharmacare plan? Has any progress been made? Where would I go to read about it in depth?
Anyway, I guess Lemmy is maybe not the place for that sort of thing.
Canadians will not vote for or against the NDP based on their position in the Middle East, he said, but on affordability and health care.
It's true that the current problems in the middle east are probably not going to be top of mind for most of Canada by the time there's an election, but we do want a party that's capable of clearly and accurately stating a reasonable position on this and the hundreds of other issues it would need to deal with as a government, which is much more difficult than constantly emitting well-rehearsed platitudes about health care.
Having that thought reminds me of Bernie Sanders, who did it well in 2015. His campaign set out positions on all manner of things, and those of which I knew something about always seemed about right even if they were not the big priorities everyone was focused on. I remember wishing we had such politicians in Canada.
So it's no surprise to scroll down the page a little and see "Bernie Sanders says Israel is violating international law with blockade on 'open-air prison' in Gaza." People might want him to say something different or something more, but the honesty of what he did say does at least put to shame the recent NDP official statement which said that "all war crimes, by all parties to this conflict, must be prosecuted" without daring to mention specifically which crimes are being committed by whom.
the former United Farmers party
Well I don't know what happened really, but at a guess maybe it had something to do with all the farmers who sold out to either the big "agribusiness" operators that have largely replaced them or to housing developers. Concentration of ownership has been a problem in many industries, but rarely have the effects been so dramatic as in farming. Since the heyday of the United Farmers of Canada there are 75% fewer farms in Canada, and 233% more Canadians. Living in a "rural" area no longer means you're all that likely to own a farm,
No matter how good it is, and I'm hoping for the best, it will definitely be over-hyped.