So the Conservative party, for the next election, offers: a) blowing up the economy to further enrich the 1%; and b) fucking over trans people. Wow, that is so appealing 🙄
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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You forgot: c) neutering the healthcare system to make it more like the US.
PP actually lucked out there and doesn't need to plan to take action on it because the provinces are already doing a fine job of dismantling their respective healthcare systems
because conservative provinces are already doing a fine job
FTFY
BC's health care system is in bad shape too. Unless you're saying bc is conservative, which I would disagree with.
BC government is doing more to fix it than any other provincial government.
Well, it's not exactly progressive.
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pp's answer to COL is not to increase minimum wage, not create affordable avenues for buying housing, but to lower the price of oil. To create more pipelines to get tar-sands "oil" to market, and subsidize the oil companies to produce greener options.
This hypocrite is a corporate stooge. A fascist pig, dolled up to appeal to the dim witted. A God's man that will shove his religious shit down or throats.
Yeah, I'm triggered by this bullshit
And Conservatives want to be the gatekeepers over peoples health decisions.
Anyone who thinks personal, private health decisions are safe under conservative governments are fooling themselves. It's all just timing and they're willing to wait decades to get what they want. A quick look south confirms it.
They want a small government.
Specifically small enough to fit in your doctor's office, your bedroom, and your womb.
And your children's underwear.
IOW: Sorry voters but you can't have affordable housing or livable wages until we get rid of all the LGBT people.
If this true, we have been infected by the MAGA virus
We were infected shortly after 2016.
The CPC are basically the Canadian trump party now.
Always has been.
For rather short values of "always". The current federal Conservatives are Preston Manning's Reform Party with different logos, no real relation to the federal Progressive Conservatives who preceded them. (Not that the PCs were that much better—I'm leery of claiming they were more socially centrist without doing research on their actual policies at the time of collapse—but there isn't a lot of them in the current party's DNA.)
Fair enough and that's a fun discussion... but I was replying to someone who said CPC, not all historical federal 'conservative' parties. The old PC/Reform split allowed for conservatives and right liberals to belong to different parties. Different times, policy wise though I think you're right, the PC party is dead and gone in the CPC. I wonder where their voters went.
👋. I was a member of the federal PCs back in the day. I worked on both Mulroney campaigns, voted for him once, and even voted for Kim Campbell. I continued to support the party until the Reform takeover. Moderate PCs were very much made to feel unwelcomed, and I didn't support most of what became policy.
I've been voting Liberal since. Which was a big jump for me. But the CPC aren't conservative. They're right-wing, populist reactionaries.
A right proper Tory as I live and breathe, I thought you all went extinct when Peter MacKay turned over the keys.
I'm just kidding with you, I feel like your story is probably common enough with people who were considered red Tories back in those days.
Social issues are not a distraction, the idea that they are is exactly an example of normative privilege.
I love how they are all about bodily autonomy, until someone wants to use it in a way they don't like.