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338Canada Federal Projection - CPC 206/ LPC 67/ BQ 38/ NDP 25/ GPC 2/ PPC 0 - March 3, 2024 (338canada.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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IMO, NDP really need a new leader.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Honestly, this makes me want to weep.

How can so many Canadians support a party that put punching down on trans youth as part of their platform?

Do they not care that the CPC's policies are literally going to kill children?

This is the result of years of targeted misinformation from Russia, China, and American and domestic conservatives. "Seventy-nine per cent of Canadian respondents believed at least one of the conspiracy theories shown to them" (source).

Hopefully, the GOP trying (and hopefully failing) a fascist coup will wake up everyone ignorant of what's going on and the dangers of hateful populist conservatives.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Probably because when you are having trouble feeding and housing yourself, a fraction of a percent of the population that isn't you doesn't matter. There are more people dying yearly because of failed Liberal+NDP policies than there are trans youth in total.

    The NDP should be seeing massive gains in a situation like this but unfortunately they made a deal with the devil that they seem hellbent on keeping, so what do you expect the majority of people to do? Vote Green and Bloc?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure I'm following you. The NDP coalition got dental and perceptions added to public health. Is that (plus other smaller stuff) not a big enough win for a minority party to get in a coalition government?

    I just don't get Canadian politics. The party that wants to deregulate everything so the 1% can capture even more wealth at everyone else's expense (and that's punching down on trans kids and wants to roll back women's rights) is beating the party that wants to help the bottom four quintiles of Canadians.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol, clearly you didn't actually read the pharmacare bill. It doesn't get us pharmacare, it gets us a study, an option to enter into agreements with the provinces (on an individual basis) and an uncertain amount of funding.

    And this is ignoring the fact that about 2/3 of Canadians already have dental benefits and ~50% have drug plans... so yeah, maybe those items aren't quite as big of a win as you thought.

    Also, I'm not sure which party you are referring to that wants to help Canadians, because the Liberals clearly don't and the NDP obviously have no interest in holding the Liberals accountable for their many fuck-ups.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, fuck the other 1/3rd of Canadians without dental and the half that don't have drug plans I guess. You got yours so the other half of Canadians should pull themselves up by their bootstraps I guess.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Sorry, but if I giving money to what's essentially a charity cause I want to do it on my terms (like I already do for several charities) not the governments, that way I get some say about meeting my own needs rather and giving what I can actually afford instead of getting fucked by taxes and inflation and having useless government bureaucrats siphon off money for themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You know what you're right, who needs social goods. Tell you what you pay for your own dental and drug plan, why not pay for your own medical insurance instead of burdening the public system, refund the money we spent to educate you, and make sure to pay for your own road and infrastructure usage while you're at it. Send a check to the police, fire dept, paramedics, and army while you're at it since I'm tired of subsidizing your safety and security.

    Why should I have to pay what amounts to charity to educate people like you who clearly cannot be educated? Pay to keep people safe when they're a danger to themselves and everyone around them with their absolutely idiotic takes? Let alone your health care and infrastructure usage.

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