Canada’s housing crisis is off the charts, and half the country lives paycheck to paycheck. In a classic show of disconnect, some Trudeau Liberals think the party's greatest problem is that people don’t understand how fabulous a job they’re actually doing.
The feds have “convinced” all of the provinces to implement a carbon tax, $10/day childcare, and national reporting for healthcare (I’m pretty sure about the last one, but I may be wrong).
The federal government has leverage. If they want to use it.
They have managed to do some things – yes. But the big things will NEVER happen Not as long as Cons have the ability to block the road. This includes if the NDP were elected Federally and wanted to do the same things. We need to elect non-Cons provincially across the board, or we lose our democracy. It’s that simple.
I don’t see why you say that. Poilievre is apparently in favour of using carrots and sticks to make cities approve more housing. Liberals could do the same and dare Conservatives to vote against it. I’m very unsympathetic to all these excuses.
That said, agree that we need to vote non-Con provincially. I sometimes have no idea why Canadians vote the way they do. Every province has a healthcare crisis, growing inequality and unaffordability, and yet voters keep voting in conservatives. Makes no sense.
The affordability problem requires more than a Doug Fraud styled approach. This article here is a more productive approach to the GOP-north CPC problem we face: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/08/Defeat-Poilievre-Politics-Abandonment/
This is a nice article and I agree with it. But I don’t see any mention of housing or Doug Ford style policies, so I’m a little confused why you posted it. I gave housing as one example of something Liberals could address, but frankly, I don’t have any faith that they want to meaningfully address it. Every single policy JT has proposed has raised demand, like the first time home buyers tax free savings account, a tax cut for the rich which will only help those who have maxed out their TFSA. Where is the non-market housing? Where are the co-ops? We also need to stop cities from denying new housing, like they’ve done in California, Boston, New Zealand, and other progressive places. (If that’s what you’re calling a Doug Ford style approach, I strongly disagree. It’s delusional to think we don’t need more supply.)
For many decades, protecting people’s “home investment” values have been central to winning politics in Canada for both the Liberals and Conservatives because home owners are a huge and powerful voting block. The CPC are bucking that trend, and I think it will work this time. I don’t think the Liberals have caught on to the change in the winds. They will probably change course mid- to late- campaign.