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Canada needs a new political party... What is its platform? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I think a majority of Canadians are kind, hardworking, and want what's best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country.

What does a brand new political party platform look like to appeal to an overwhelming majority of Canadians?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The NDP already represent a lot of what the majority of Canadians want, but fearmongering about sOciALiSm, and the party having to move more towards the center to try and meet the Liberals halfway has diluted their brand.

The people who would never vote for them anyways think that they're too far left, and the people who used to support them see them as too-eager-to-please to the current Liberal government.

If you could magically snap away people's preconcieved notions and team mentality towards politics, and had them read party policies carte blanche, I think a large portion of Canadians would go NDP, especially if they went back to their traditional policies and mindset.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you could magically snap away people's preconcieved notions and team mentality towards politics, and had them read party policies carte blanche, I think a large portion of Canadians would go NDP, especially if they went back to their traditional policies and mindset.

You could say the same about any of the parties. Their platforms all sound great, it's the implementation and actual outcomes that differ.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The People's Party (I know, kinda cheating) Platform is pretty easy to tell which party it is. It's pro conversion therapy(shock treatments, "pray the gay away" camps/prisons), including on children, and anti-trans. It even name-drops Jordan Peterson.

  • Remove the ban imposed by Bill C-4, the so-called “conversion therapy bill”
  • Repeal Bill C-16, the bill that added gender self-identification as ground for protection against discrimination.

That's pretty easy to spot and avoid.

The cons say that they don't believe that Canada should have a carbon tax, or a carbon cap as a national policy as #31 of their Policy Declaration.

That's also pretty easy to avoid.

I could see someone looking the NDP and LIb platforms and not being able to tell which is which, though they could pretty easily figure out that they are not right-wing.