Things people are desperate about: Housing, food prices
Things the NDP wants to campaign on: Prescription drug costs
I’m not saying prescription drug costs aren’t an issue, nor that I don’t think that pharmacare should be rolled in to our public healthcare system, but… Like… read the room, guys.
Housing and food prices are complex market-driven issues that require a careful approach and messy compromises. Pharmacare can more or less be implemented with the stroke of a pen, if the political will is there. Going after easily solved problems over bigger but harder problems makes sense to me as a strategy, both in terms of politics and in terms of actually doing good.
They’ve talked about those issues too.
Indeed. They may as well campaign on UBI too, since conspiracy theory believers probably wouldn’t be the ones voting NDP anyway.