In perhaps his most disappointing policy announcement thus far, Carney has indicated he will scrap the Liberal’s plan to increase the capital gains inclusion rate. This mildly progressive measure was directed squarely at the passive incomes of the wealthiest sliver of Canadians and would have served as a healthy revenue generator. Instead, it’s destined for the scrapheap.
The move towards a two-party system is inevitable under first-past-the-post voting systems. This is why I considered Trudeau’s betrayal of electoral reform to be a generational stab-in-the-back and swore I would never vote Liberal again.
And first-past-the-post is also why I am breaking that vow and voting Liberal in the upcoming election. My riding happens to be a “tossup” between Conservative and Liberal, and in this particular election I can’t afford to “vote my conscience”. The existence of Canada is at stake. And so I hold my nose really hard and recognize the reality of the facts before me.
Some people may be fortunate enough to be in ridings where a vote for NDP wouldn’t literally help put Poilievre in power, but I am not. I must do what I can to actually help. I recommend everyone check your riding’s polling numbers to confirm whether you have that luxury.
My riding has been conservative for decades, so I get to vote for whoever I want. Not that it matters. :\
It does matter, if nothing else in that you voted, and if not PC, then it is recorded that not 100% in your riding want PC. Don’t please let FPTP dissuade you from voting at all.
Oh I vote every election.
Yeah, I hope nobody took my comment to suggest that it’s not worth voting at all in a “safe” riding. Frankly that’s a bit liberating, if I was in a riding that was already certain to go to any party (Conservative, Liberal, Natural Law, whatever) then that would mean I was free to vote my conscience. The popular vote doesn’t mean anything in absolute legal terms but it’s still a nice bit of psychological pressure to apply.
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My riding last election was tied 50/50 liberals NDP and yet even adding up all those votes conservatives would still win. I assume a lower con and higher lib turnout this time around but honestly I can’t be sure, I think the con voters here are lifetime.
I don’t think that’s actually true. I detest FPTP but Westminster systems all around have all sorts of smaller parties that work because they have concentrated power bases. The NDP, the Bloc, etc have been electing MPs for decades. If what you’re saying is true, they would have been disappeared by now.
It’s good that we have that but we can still yearn for more.
We do not have 2 party system. NDP still wins seats, and should continue to do so. Greens have seats. Understand your riding’s politics for ABC vote.