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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I agree with your opinion about politicians attacking the other parties.

    But I don’t se how Carney’s ideas are fresh. He wants to cut funding to government programs and services, cut taxes and invest.

    You know that that sounds like? Less tax income for the government to spend. A decrease in social services like health and education, and subsidies to private interests.

    Here’s what he wants to invest in:

    • millions of new homes to address the housing crisis,
    • a major expansion in both conventional and clean energy systems to reduce our dependence on the United States and drive competitiveness in Canadian manufacturing,
    • port, rail and infrastructure for the new trade corridors with major new trade partners, and
    • defence equipment and dual-use defence infrastructure that is made in Canada to make our country more secure and prosperous.

    All of which should be nationalized in my opinion. Social housing for the most vulnerable who can’t afford any home or even rent almost anywhere and are either living in poverty or camping in tents.

    Energy should be nationalized again like it used to be before Mulroney. Like Québec did with Hydro Québec.

    Same with rail and port infrastructure. (I think CN is a crown corporation, but not sure about ports…)

    Defence equipment is the only exception.

    But why cut taxes??? We need to tax Canada’s billionaires. There’s plenty of them. We need to tax the richest people in this country who have gotten richer over the past 10 years to a ridiculous point. They’re the same people that made the middle class poorer with their manufactured inflation.