• rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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        14 hours ago

        The Canadian Future Party (CFP; French: Parti avenir canadien, PAC) is a minor federal political party in Canada that was officially launched in 2024. It describes itself as being politically centrist, campaigning on a fiscally conservative and socially liberal platform.

        That made me audibly groan, along with this:

        • Allowing the private sector to take a larger role in society with government oversight
        • Simplifying the tax code to close loopholes in cooperation with the provinces and territories
        • Ending corporate subsidies and supply management where a return on investment cannot be delivered

        I’m happy to be proven wrong, but this seems like a recipe for laissez-faire capitalism that will eventually end in a collective shrug, a few golden parachutes, and a recession. Canada does not need more centrism.

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          8 hours ago

          Their platform made me roll my eyes a bit, the only fiscal conservative that makes sense is when you tax billionaires out of existence. Fiscal conservatism that taxes the poor and doesn’t give them benefits is more neocon bullshit

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          13 hours ago

          Translation:

          Allowing the private sector to take a larger role in society with government oversight

          Privatise profits, socialise losses

          Simplifying the tax code to close loopholes in cooperation with the provinces and territories

          Lower overall taxes, austerity

          Ending corporate subsidies and supply management where a return on investment cannot be delivered

          End climate-protecting subsidies

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            8 hours ago

            Point #3 also includes closing government owned entities like the post office.

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              4 hours ago

              Right, and I also forgot privatising things like water and then let them shut off water for poor people who cannot pay like in Chile.

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        10 hours ago

        No point fighting. Just remember its the same people that don’t understand a scholarship only for “people of color” is by definition racist. If a “white people” only scholarship is racist so is the one for people of color.

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          9 hours ago

          Are you pretending to misunderstand because you’re a racist, or do you actually misunderstand because you’re an idiot?

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              35 minutes ago

              Sure. People of that skin about 15 million people for 400 year built this country without being able to reap any rewards for their contributions. Then I took another 80-99 years to give those people equal rights that we still struggle with today. By the time they became equal everything was owned and they were already cast into poverty. Until we see equal outcomes from people of that skin color as the average majority they deserve as much help as we can give them. Honestly they deserve reparations. But instead they only get scholarships until the college population equals that of the racial makeup of this country. Oh yeah they qualify for college just they wouldn’t get accepted because the institution is racist or with out the help the kids will have to potentially put their family at risk with huge loans.