Wouldn't say he's always been trash, but I never fully trusted him. I was grateful to him, for a time, for giving Canadians a break from worrying about how their country was going down the shitter. I've always characterized him as "Canada's Obama," in a sense, for giving us a reprieve from Harper's Bush-era policies.
Now that he's broken his promise on election reform, I hope that Canada holds his feet to the fucking fire. But I've lost so much faith in the democratic process since Brexit and Trump (and I'm suspicious of how deeply compromised the NDP is as a party) that I don't see anyone having much of a shot at the federal offices than the Conservatives.
I wouldn't say it's fair to lump the federal NDP in with the Alberta flavour re: oil policy; Notley really has no other choice than to be more lenient with how the economy out here is set up and the deeply entrenched right wing contingent.
Still so salty with the NDP's refusal to go hard left. Jack wasn't a centrist and 2012 wasn't about going mainstream, stop hijacking our socialists. >:(
This was an interesting article, thanks for posting!
Trudeau is problematic in many ways. I mean, he's been better than his predecessor (i.e. the right-wing and unlamented Stephen Harper) but that's not exactly a high bar.
Something that has been so frustrating in politics for me is that parties and politicians somehow convinced people that taking a different stance on social issues makes you opposite ends of the spectrum, without much regard to fiscal or environmental policies. Social issues are very important to me, of course, and I don't want any one to be discriminated against-- but I cannot keep praising and idealizing these leaders who are OK with LGBT marriage and acknowledge (although rarely care to act on) racial injustice but have bullshit economic and environmental policy. It makes me the devil to some people-- which fine. But at the end, NO ONE wins when the planet is destroyed, NO ONE wins when they aren't earning a living wage, NO ONE wins when they can't afford housing, or food, or healthcare. Etc etc. If you tell me I am voting for the lesser of two evils, then we still have to acknowledge the evil part, you know?
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Now that he's broken his promise on election reform, I hope that Canada holds his feet to the fucking fire. But I've lost so much faith in the democratic process since Brexit and Trump (and I'm suspicious of how deeply compromised the NDP is as a party) that I don't see anyone having much of a shot at the federal offices than the Conservatives.
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Still so salty with the NDP's refusal to go hard left. Jack wasn't a centrist and 2012 wasn't about going mainstream, stop hijacking our socialists. >:(
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(this is personally affecting me so I'm double bitter)
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Trudeau is problematic in many ways. I mean, he's been better than his predecessor (i.e. the right-wing
and unlamented Stephen Harper) but that's not exactly a high bar.
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Something that has been so frustrating in politics for me is that parties and politicians somehow convinced people that taking a different stance on social issues makes you opposite ends of the spectrum, without much regard to fiscal or environmental policies. Social issues are very important to me, of course, and I don't want any one to be discriminated against-- but I cannot keep praising and idealizing these leaders who are OK with LGBT marriage and acknowledge (although rarely care to act on) racial injustice but have bullshit economic and environmental policy. It makes me the devil to some people-- which fine. But at the end, NO ONE wins when the planet is destroyed, NO ONE wins when they aren't earning a living wage, NO ONE wins when they can't afford housing, or food, or healthcare. Etc etc. If you tell me I am voting for the lesser of two evils, then we still have to acknowledge the evil part, you know?
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