A new economic report from TD says Canada is falling behind the standard-of-living curve compared to its peers.

A new economic report from TD says Canada is falling behind the standard-of-living curve compared to its peers.

    • @cyberpunk007
      -3•1 year ago

      Aren’t the conservatives talking about more proper wealth distribution though?

      • @[email protected]
        9•1 year ago

        Never heard conservatives talking about anything like that, in any country. If they ever talk about it it’s always bootstraps and tax cuts for the rich

          • girlfreddy
            1•1 year ago

            @cyberpunk007 @Numpty

            Now, yes. But it didn’t used to be. Prior to Jack Layton shifting the NDP to center-left the party continuously battled against the neo-liberal politics of both the Tory and Liberals.

            I mean just consider if Canada had stayed in a for-profit healthcare system … do we actually think any one of those 3, or for that matter any provincial gov’t, would now be seeking to implement universal healthcare like the NDP’s Tommy Douglas did in Saskatchewan?

        • @cyberpunk007
          -1•1 year ago

          So we have that, then we have the NDP which is basically the liberals lap dog, and then the liberals which have made many decisions I disagree with. Who’s left to vote for?

            • @[email protected]
              1•1 year ago

              Yeah fuck these people. “Liberals don’t always do what I want and NDP never wins they just join with the liberals so I’m gonna vote conservative even though they ruin everything for everyone”.

              • @cyberpunk007
                1•1 year ago

                Yeah fuck these people.

                A little harsh, don’t you think? FWIW I voted NDP last couple elections…

          • @[email protected]
            2•1 year ago

            I struggle with the same question. I’m trying to educate myself about the options… and it’s damn difficult. Every option is a poor choice for different reasons. One party has a core platform that is completely out of touch with the public, the next relies on fingerpointing and provides zero solutions, and the third just parrots what people are thinking on many issues but does nothing more than grandstanding.

            Sigh.

            With the way things are, we end up voting for a party we dislike so that the party we feel is destructive to Canada doesn’t win the election… and then we end up dissatisfied with the results. It’s pretty broken.