Message from @pratel
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Guevera?
No.
This was their platform last election
If you read carefully, they mention repealling Bill C-51
The 'anti terrorism' bill
Which is a massive part of why i liked them that election
They were the only party interested in doing that.
Stance on:
1) Minimum Wage.
2) Rent control
3) Nationalization of industries
4) Firearms
5) vices (alcohol, weed, violent media)
6) Social Justice (as defined by feminism and racial politics)
7) Preferred taxes
The platform is useful, but it seems pretty par for the course for Canada from what I can tell.
damnit i misread that last part "Crack down on Senate expenses and LOBSTER Conflict, interest laws" 😦 i was so excited
Oh, two others I forgot, preferred subsidies and defense spending.
1) Dont think they had one. But they're a party that would like a relatively high one.
2) Never mentioned really. Not that ive seen. That kinda goes for all parties in the 2015 election. More of a local issue?
3) NDP is pro-nationalization for industries Canada has tradtionally had nationalized (Hydro is the big thing. Conservatives moved to privatize, NDP strongly dislikes this.)
4) No comment. Canadians are generally quite happy with their firearms laws, though im sure some gun people would prefer them loosened. It's not a big debate here, and wasnt talked about from what i saw.
5) Fine with vices, probably would consider legalizing marijuana like Trudeau is doing, but didnt run on it.
6) Talk about it alot less then Liberals, but some of what the individual party members have said, especially in 2017/2018 makes me feel bleh. I think they'd be significantly more mild about it then liberals though, more worried about class like traditional leftist politics, then race/femininism
7) Liberals have a habit of increasing spending, without compensating enough with revenue. NDP would like to both increase spending and increase taxes. (IIRC they wanted to increase spending by a similar amount to liberals, but actually talked about raising taxes to pay for it. Liberals kinda avoided talking about how they would pay)
Our parties, as of the 2015 election kind of end up
Conservatives : Right
Liberals : Centre Left
NDP : Left
Traditionally the liberals have been centrist or centre right though.
And they tend to vote with conservatives more often then NDP
Sounds like Sanders to me.
On the tax question, what I really meant was if given the choice between say an excise tax or an income tax, which would they choose.
The flier indicated a desire to cut the business tax for 'small' businesses, which seemed kinda odd for a traditional left party.
excise tax?
Alcohol.
Oh yeah, they did run on that.
Stuff like that.
Carbon.
They wouldnt really do that. Again more of a local thing here?
Carbon tax they would do though.
Trudeau is trying as well
Interestingly
The Local NDP in Alberta
(Oil sands)
Is fighting strongly against the carbon tax.
Rachel Notely is the local NDP leader in Alberta
Notably Alberta consistently voted conservative before her
But she's quite popular now
And yes, like i was trying to get at before, more class focused, then race/feminism focused.
Which is much like sanders
Though i havent seen them call for taxing the rich to pay for university or some such
So less extreme then sanders in some ways with that.
Heavily pro-union, Pro low small buisness tax, pro heavily progresssive income tax
Ah. there we go. A Union party.
er. labor union party.
Though low taxes on small business is unusual.
Maybe. But its coherent.