Just saw a Steve Boots video summarizing all the parties' positions.

Though amusingly, the Cons don't have anything even now. You can just feel the contempt they have for democracy as a whole when they throw a snap election, but then hardly participate while breaking election rules.

From what I have heard, none of the parties aside from the Greens even have a platform. Even their websites are pretty bare this late into the election.

A sign of a good leader is to know when to step off the stage. Singh continues to show us that he is not that.

The NDP stands zero chance of winning. The best they can do is official opposition, and even that is asking for a miracle. Frankly speaking, they should be asking themselves what's the best realistic position the party can manage this election, and that's to whittle away votes from the Cons.

As long as the Conservatives have a strong voter base, the only thing the NDP can do is canabolize liberal votes, which is a lose-lose proposition when the liberals don't even have a majority. Even in the best case of this scenario, they're just splitting the votes and handing the Conservatives the win.

Instead of trying to nab a small number of easy votes, go they need to go for the harder but far bigger votes. Convince Canadians that voting for the Cons goes directly against their own interests.

Even for that example, there's the issue of maximum height as well. Different provinces have different standards for clearance, which is why every once in a while you hear about a truck that strikes a bridge or other underpass.

I'll sign.

Though I do think that something like a petition having the power to actually revoke a person's citizenship is draconian, and should never actually happen in Canada, I do support the sentiment.

It's quite hard to call them anti-terrorists when they let Hamas control their open-air prison. And I mean, how isn't firing rockets at your neighbours' population centres anything but terrorism?

No, actually this is the benefit of collective bargaining. When you have a single entity that represents millions of customers, you can say "we'll take this, but only if you drop the price by half and not raise it for ten years" versus an insurance company that is not only incentivized to take a cut, but often only represents thousands, with the biggest that represents hundreds of thousands being able to point at the little guys and say "we're still cheaper than them" even if they still charge a hundred dollars a month for insulin.

This is one of the advantages of public healthcare, and why it's so important we preserve it. Hell, it benefits those that go to private hospitals as well, as everybody benefits from the lower drug prices, not just those who go to public hospitals. Well, except those that sell the drugs, but that's why so many conservative leaders try to cut public healthcare, because they're in bed with somebody in the distribution chain, and even if they're not, they're easy to bait into taking such measures.

It's pretty sad but he doesn't even need much of a platform to excel in this election. Just a plan for some basic things, like housing, healthcare, direct investments in each province's economy, as well as a general outline towards strengthening trade relations with existing partners to make up for US trade losses.

Show that he has a plan, not just some vague goals, and he'll be a hundred times more appealing than PP.

This is entirely a non-starter. We simply do not have the technology to intercept ICBMs on anything but a local scale. Guarding thousands of km of our boarder isn't feasible when you have literal seconds to intercept something that could land minutes away. I mean, ICBMs are hypersonic by definition since they fall at a rate of something like mach 20. It's like trying to stop a bullet by throwing a BB at it. It can only work by placing ICBM interceptor sites every hundred KM or something across the entire boarder.

Imagine funding billion dollar interceptor missiles by the thousands. And that presumes that we have ones that work.

The Iron Dome works because it intercepts rockets that are technologically more similar to WWII Soviet weapons than modern day missiles. Against that, an ICBM is like comparing a hobby rocket to SpaceX's Space Ship One.

Any serious talk about it is simply grifting, and Canada shouldn't take part unless if the other side could provide evidence of it working without the projected costs being greater than our entire GDP. And even then, who are we going to use it against? The Russians? All evidence points to them not being able to get their existing ICBMs to work, let alone make new ones. And Canada isn't in between China and the US, so that's not a threat to us at all. And that presumes that China can lob an ICBM at several times the distance Russian needs to.

And all this presumes that we can trust anything that's said regarding any kind of friendly cooperative from the south. First try ending your damn trade war with us, then we can start talking about some smaller low stakes cooperatives before ramping things up to things that has the potential to cripple our entire economy and autonomy.

Everybody who's trying to campaign for a leadership position should have a thorough background check for conflicts of interests and backing of foreign entities. I mean, apparently PP is part of the same conservative movement that Trump heads.

It's not because they're conservatives that they're a problem. It's that they are self-serving morons who constantly shift the blame and divert attention and made their entire careers around such actions rather than holding any real beliefs for the future of their provinces or doing any real good.

It's not being conservative that makes them into bloated vampires, but that bloated vampires have taken over conservative parties with their superior powers of brainwashing.