I’ve noticed that the NDP has a visibility problem especially among blue collar workers. I’t seems that many people seem to think that the conservatives are going to make canada more affordable. How can I talk to people to get them to understand that the conservatives are just business as usual and are going to make canada more affordable for big corperations and resource extraction companies. Not the workers who actually get stuff done?

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    https://torontosun.com/news/national/poilievre-pitches-to-new-immigrants-as-brown-attacks-him-over-2015-niqab-ban-bill

    promising to cut red tape for immigrants

    he met with were members of the Armenian, Muslim and Pakistani communities

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/poilievre-open-to-changes-on-fair-elections-act-1.1777138

    Bring more money into politics

    Under the provision, money spent to solicit donations from people who have given at least $20 over the previous five years would be exempt from campaign spending limits.

    Weakening Elections Canada’s ability to ensure fair elections

    proposes that the elections commissioner – who investigates alleged wrongdoing and enforces elections laws – be split off from Elections Canada

    Making it harder to vote

    a ban on voter cards.

    What he thinks

    Poilievre described the bill, which proposes banning voter vouching at the polls and limiting the power of Elections Canada as a “reasoned, common sense bill that Canadians broadly support.”

    Harper told him no

    His housing bill

    https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-356/first-reading

    This means that if your town doesn’t increase in size by 15% every year then your property taxes will go up

    establish a target for the completion of new homes in high-cost cities that increases 15% every year and ties federal infrastructure funding allocated to high-cost cities to that target;

    You can’t take the bus to work, all transit stops have to be in housing districts

    require that federal transit funding provided to certain cities be held in trust until high-density residential housing is substantially occupied on available land around federally funded transit projects’ stations; and

    If your city/town wants to ensure buildings are up to code then your property taxes will go up

    make it a condition for certain cities to receive federal infrastructure and transit funding that they not unduly restrict or delay the approval of building permits for housing.

    Tax rebates for the rich (note there is no duration requirement for them to provide this better rate to get the rebate)

    provide a 100% GST rebate on new residential rental property for which the average rent payable is below market rate.