Wow, finally!

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

It's the Epstein class continuing on their merry way. (It's not about the children for them, it's about the money. And that hasn't stopped.)

I saw one yesterday, too!

The overton window definitely shifts and not by the will of the people, usually by the information they're being fed. Because we're so close to the US, I believe that has moved us right. I'm hoping by aligning more with Europe, we move more left.

They also changed leaders from someone who was further on the left to someone who was more fiscally conservative. People wanted change, but they didn't want Pierre.

I've found that most Canadians are fiscally conservative, and socially liberal. So when the Liberals have more conservative fiscal policy, they do well. The Conservative party of today doesn't do well, mostly because of their social policies. They lean more to Reform than PC.

Interesting read, but I'm not sure I agree. I would also call myself a pragmatist. :-) In the end, t doesn't matter what I want, it matters what Canadians want. As much as I may agree with many NDP policies etc., most Canadian don't. For all practical purposes, the overton window matters.

Please define centrist politics? This is where we differ as you seem to have a fixed idea of what that is. Whereas, I believe the centre in a democratic nation is the centre of the populations' belief system. You seen an absolute centre. Please define the economic policy of a "pure centrist".

Since the 90's, government has gotten out of all sorts of "businesses". Some good, some bad. Instead of developing a nationwide food provider, they work with existing corporations. We're not a socialist country. There's a huge margin between socialism and "pure capitalism" that you're leaping over.

We are not a socialist country. We never have been. Some may want that, but I would suggest we don't have that because the majority of Canadians do not want that.

I didn't see him taking away our social programs. Yes, he's definitely to the right of Trudeau, but he's not a "pure capitalist".

To say Liberals only support market solutions and not social programs, is just factually incorrect as per the historical record. You like to throw a lot of terms around, but they are not grounded in reality.

Dining rooms and kitchens are not relative in position, they are absolutes. The centre of a human population is not an absolute, it moves relative to the population.

A "pure capitalist". I don't exactly know that definition, but I don't believe Liberals are "pure capitalists". We believe in social programs and regulations to protect society. I don't think the COVID payments were "pure capitalism".

Centre is a relative term. If society has shifted, how could the centre stay the same? Is there a political ideology based on a fixed centre?

Yes, he was a capitalist, most Libs are.

In 2016, they introduced a new top federal personal income tax bracket of 33% for taxable income over $200,000. The policy was implemented as part of a broader tax shift that also reduced the tax rate for the second-lowest income bracket from 22% to 20.5%

Definitely not conservative policies! But the other major difference is in social policy--especially with today's conservatives which are more reform than pc.

Right of what? The centre moves with the people. There's no way Trudeau was "right" of the majority of Canadians. He brought the OAS age back to 65, increased the child tax benefit by a large amount, increased taxes on the highest income earners, tried to increase the capital gains inclusion rate.

I already give to several international charities.

You'll find the Chretien / Martin Liberals were also fiscally conservative given the economic challenges they faced. This is not unheard of for Liberals.

Reminds me a lot of the Chretien / Martin Liberals--who were also dealing with some tough economic challenges. (Trudeau was pretty far left for a Liberal. )

But is that Epstein he's trying to bring back to life?

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

I think we can safely remove the title of “leader of the free world” from the US Presidency now

Don't forget this little sweetheart deal as well:

Unfortunately, so are the people listening.

“Although Canada’s growth has been dismal...Ontario’s performance has been so poor that we are falling behind the rest of the country."

Doug Ford has botched ALL the major files: health, education, fiscal/economy, transit, culture and hydro.

#ONpoli

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Congress is completely useless at this point.

A nuclear armed United States is now an existential threat to the rest of the world