Like Jack Layton, he’s a white heterosexual Anglo male with a good pedigree; and like Layton, I think he will win the NDP lots of seats.
We aren’t all that different from the Yanks.
(Here’s to you, wp:Jagmeet Singh: at least the Liberals remain a minority.)
He ran for parliament twice, got 25% of the vote in 2021, and 12% in 2025.
The NDP needs to be as radical as possible and draw attention to the fact that both parties on the top are fucking us over equally.
The problem I see is there a lot of hair brained ideas like government run grocery stores. Margins on grocery stores are tiny, so prices will be unable to fall significantly. The thing I was hoping the NDP would tackle is zoning, which is where corporation like Loblaws do have high margins, due to the scarcity of land due to regressive and sprawled zoning laws; alongside a lack of mixed use residential.
The NDP also supported mass immigration to depress wages for Canadians and create a double digit youth unemployment, there was no rebuke of that policy that Loblaws and Tim Hortons lobbied for. This is how Pierre was attaining the youth and the union vote, people obviously dont want massive money printing that inflates the price of goods, followed by mass immigration to reverse the created wage pressure as per the phillips curve.
Margins on grocery stores are tiny, so prices will be unable to fall significantly.
Loblaws made $2.7B profit in 2025.
Maybe the indigenous should determine our immigration policies, or at least have a say in them;
otherwise, I’m pretty much open borders.
Ya I mean you wont have a social safety net then, as is shown by our failing healthcare and infrastructure after we did mass immigration; you’re essentially enacting a far right libertarian policy at that point.
Ironically he also wants to kill one of our largest exports by stopping pipelines, so fewer jobs that are being debased by a large influx of labor, failing services from a lack of tax revenue and productivity, and I think you can see how this far left fantasy ends in ruin.
I’d also say the BoC is ringing the alarm bells on investment into Canada, it seems people dont trust this place to put their money, and that makes us poorer. The idea that “tax the rich” is a panacea is silly.
Let’s fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WOOT WOOT!