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I would say that any young person thinking that Pierre is going to make your life better is so fucking full of cope. Pierre won't make your life better. More and more young people have part time jobs, no benefits, and are struggling to find a home and if they do it's an old outdated piece of shit going for half a million.
Atleast the liberals and NDP have been giving them dental coverage, pharmacare coverage and affordable, quality childcare. The liberals and NDP are also proposing plans that will help FIRST time home buyers buy new, Pierre is suggesting to "axe the tax" on ALL new homes without limit of how many you can buy. (Rich people will buy them all).
The liberals plan to do as we did after ww2 is the proven method to do this, and for young people looking for a home or a career, this is how we do it. This housing program will generate hundreds of thousands of trades positions that we desperately need and they pay decently. Using new technologies and new methods while also cutting development fees.
Idk, just baffles me that young 20 somethings are talking about how Pierre is their guy because..... They say life has been harder then ever? When those 20 somethings have only just began to enter the work force enmasse? Like I'm sorry but these kids were in elementary school when Trudeau got elected and every day since their parents have been paying for less and less of their stuff. They are still under their parents insurance if they're in college or university and it's just wild to me that they would actually think this.
Maybe it's them scrolling social media endlessly and seeing random fucking people there repeating "lost liberal decade" or "things have never been worse" (when they have in fact been much much worse).
It's half an issue about messaging. The problem is that the Liberal messaging keeps sounding like things designed for older generations and not things that'll help younger Canadians, while Cons messaging sounds like they re for younger Canadians rather than older ones.
Yes, Liberal plans on expanding housing while preserving healthcare are definitely things that are good for younger Canadians, but they both sound like things that are only for older generations. Like building more houses are only for rich Canadians to buy cottages and healthcare are for old people who can't get out of bed because of their bad knees, not that housing means that first-time buyers finally have houses within their price ranges, or that getting sick and taking time off work doesn't equate to being 20 years in debt because hospitals gouge you for everything you have because people are willing to mortgage the rest of their lives to get life-saving treatments.
On the other hand, the Cons keep saying they'll create resource jobs and reduce taxes, making it sound like they're opening up so everybody can become gold diggers and stop the government from taking their hard-earned pay, when it's actually not even close to being true. That the jobs the Cons promise are only minimum wage jobs at best, in terrible conditions and far away from all convenience, or that the taxes reduced will save the rich millions while the poor still can't afford to buy the houses and services that the taxes get saved on, making it so that they are actually subsidizing the rich even more than before. Not to mention that every $100 cut in taxes means that the average Canadian will pay thousands more for the services that they've been getting all their lives.
But no, the Cons are better at wording their platform to appeal to the worst off in Canada, yet those are the ones cheering for them the most. The Cons are really the world's best conmen, and too many Canadians are too desperate to notice.