the largest voting block in canada (seniors) aren't really capable of understanding this issue let alone prioritizing it. in fact, for liberal voters the only thing they care about is opposing and antagonizing trump, or at least the appearance of doing so. keeping housing unaffordable is a distant second priority.

so bills like this will continue to go through since the liberals have a majority and the PMs popularity counterintuitively goes up as things go from bad to worse. im finding it hard to have any motivation to oppose this bill since resistance seems to be futile.

the dark liberal decade gets longer and darker in canada.

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krunck 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does "liberal" mean the same thing it does in the USA?

	▲	rangestransform 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You can think of them as the equivalent of the DNC-preferred wing of the democrats
	▲	kps 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada
	▲	munk-a 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It does not and it's quite confusing. You'll often see people use the term LPC or Liberal and avoid lower-case liberal due to the confusion of that word. In Canada the Liberal party is a fiscally centrist/corporate & socially liberal(ish) (aka it's similar to the traditional British definition of Liberal). The Conservatives are a large right wing reactionary block that seems to be perpetually in the minority but with a large loyal voting block while the actual opposition mostly comes from three parties that rotate in and out of relevance as a left-wing voice BQ (Bloq-quebecois), NDP (New Democratic Party - fading since the death of Jack Layton), and the Greens (Environmental sorta, but also weirdly anti-science sometimes). And that's on the national level - at the provincial level it gets even weirder with the BCLiberals (recently named BCUP) being socially and fiscally conservative and opposed by the BC NDP and other minor parties. Liberal doesn't mean the same as it does in the US because it barely has a consistent meaning up here.
	▲	slopinthebag an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, I probably should have used "Liberal" to indicate I'm talking about the Liberal Party of Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada it's a bit of a misnomer imo. if we're talking about classical liberalism, the conservatives fit that label better. if we're talking about "liberals" i.e. the left, the NDP would fit that label better. the modern Liberals are more like neoliberal technocrats, who favour top-down state interventionism and who are the ones driving surveillance bills and attacking privacy.

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shovas 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This is Canada, he's spot on. It's insane here.

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drop_star 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm also in Canada no its not this is a stupid take both Liberals and Conservatives push the same neo-libral crap. The only difference is the Cons want to push a culture war on us. Go back to Russia bot

	▲	hellgas00 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Cons want to push a culture war You could say the same thing about the social agenda of the Liberal party. They will expand the Temp Foreign Workers program undermining wage growth for the poorest while pushing controversial social issues front and center.