Canada

Yea but that's the Liberal party you're talking about. If you want that, you should vote NDP.

Yeah, private ownership concentration is a huge problem leading to monopolies, lack of innovation, and worsening treatment of both customers and employees in general. As I understand it, all funds have increasingly gone to parasitic shareholders more than ever since CEO pay has shifted more and more to pay in company stock.

I’d love more publicly-run utility and transportation networks as you said, but in other less critical areas we could probably benefit from a more competitive system of small-to-medium-sized cooperatives that could (ideally, in a perfect world) replace corporations entirely. I would love to see support for worker groups with solid business plans to receive government grants (or at least forgiving loans) to help them buy their private sector workplaces for conversion to a democratic business model where employee-owners don’t get treated like serfs and businesses have to win over customers to survive, rather than trapping them and getting complacent.

*edited to add that last bit in italics

Let's also do domestic billionaires (yea we have some).

Why have an EV rebate at all. Im sure the poor are overjoyed to gift their landlord a rebate for their new EV sports car. Meanwhile we are the only country in the G7 without high speed rail, while many of our highways were built in the 1960s.

I'm kind of hoping they will. The government does not have too much money right now. I see no reason not to add a few percent to the top or second-to-top tax bracket.

Absolutely. Money is a signifier that only has meaning when integrated in material exchanges. Radical, bold restructurations are needed in order to ameliorate our country's socioeconomic reality.

All they need to do is make it so you can only own one residence, if you own a second as income property it should be taxed to the point that you want to sell it.

I was in the rental stream before and at least 1 landlord was foreign owners from mainland China--the property had sat empty for six months before us because owner was rich and didn't care about the 2k month they were losing. Another was an unlocatable landlord, the strara paperwork showed China owner, but correspondence was coming from Korean contact info. It started to look more like shell company ownership. Also have two friends who's Vancouver places are Asian owned. Owners moved back to China and main house was vacant for 2+ years, just single basement tennant paying utilities to make place "occupied".

I have a much more clear cut policy:

1. You can live in one home
2. You can't own a home you don't live in

Occasionally someone has a big place and someone has a small place, but this would solve way more issues.

Yes but what about the profits of investors? Have you thought of them? You meany.

Yes, but functionally no one voted NDP this year, and that was their pitch, IIRC.

It may yet be part of things: a promised cut to middle class taxes should infer inclusion of the poorer.

Make it an official tax bracket too, instead just a refund everyone qualifies for. I don't know why TF it's set up that way.

The Liberals don't care about debt, that is for some future party to worry about, during a debt crisis.

The NDP want a lot of social programs with high taxes, the Cons want low taxes and fewer programs, the Liberals offer a lot of social spending and low taxes by shamelessly abusing government debt.

The debt can be abused because its backed by our ability to liquidate our public pension to pay creditors, as outlined in the last budget Freeland released.

Middle class is a made up term meant to separate the working class. It doesn't mean anything. The definition of middle class is vibes alone because it's a term that means nothing used by pandering politicians.

I agree that systemic solutions should be the focus but unfortunately the Liberals are incapable of challenging the system.