This is great and I want the funding to follow through but I can't help thinking delivering on a campaign promise this late and this close to an election is secretly more about the votes.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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I'll take the end result of this one either way.
Really, ya think?
This has been the Liberal playbook for as long as I can remember:
- During the campaign, promise all sorts of progressive goodies (pharmacare, electoral reform, whatever)
- Flank the NDP by making swing voters think "What's the difference between the two, anyway?"
- Get elected
- Do nothing progressive for four years, instead:
- Strike up a bunch of commissions, committees and studies for the progressive stuff you'd said you were going to do. Those commissions will either die a quiet death in bickering and obstructionism, or deliver their recommendations just before you call the next election
- On the other hand, do engage in the neoliberal stuff you really wanted to do: cut taxes for the rich, maybe buy a pipeline for Alberta, sell off some assets, do some expensive public-private partnerships
- Call an election and this time, pinkie-swear, we'll really do pharmacare, or willd o daycare right, or will have an answer for housing. Just trust us this time, mmmkay?
This is also while the Liberals don't really mind the Conservatives, but are terrified of the NDP and truly pissed off at the Bloc: they're okay with switching chairs every four to twelve years, but if the NDP gets traction it means that the Liberals might be away from the levers of power permanently. This is why electoral reform died: meaningful electoral reform would mean no more Liberal (or Conservative) majorities with ~35% of the vote.
You forgot "Get caught redhanded buttering the bread of Liberal cronies and somehow the media let them squirm out of it" about 2 years in.
about the votes.
This is my surprised face.
Canada is finally catching up to Finland on this.
Canada is finally catching up to Québec on this.
This should be handled by the provinces.
A lot of things should be handled by the provinces, but unfortunately there are premiers who care more about backroom deals with billionaires than administering social programs. I don't mind the federal government stepping in to run social programs if the premiers have abandoned their province. It's kind of hard to say the government is overstepping their boundaries by feeding children.
Glad it's not just more money for Dougie to "lose".
Not saying I like how it's being done though.
That’s how I feel too.
I don’t like the federal government pretending to be provincial and the provincial governments blaming them for everything.
If the premiers don’t want to run provinces, then dissolve the provinces.
Maybe, but they aren't getting it done so screw em.