johnefrancis

Sounds good to me.

Totally agree about electoral reforms of most kinds.

Sadly the NDP has drifted far from their socialist root, and doesn't really talk about any kind of major reform to capitalism. They offer a lot of marginal policy change, but don't talk about alternatives that would reverse the 50 year trend. When Mulcair was leader, h3me wanted to eliminate the federal deficit.

I think everyone can get behind interprovincial trade. Not much else that's positive in there. Build pipelines faster, and double down on the fraud of carbon-capture. Nothing about any systemic changes that will help Canadians find housing or secure stable, increasing incomes. Nothing about shifting the share of economic growth from capital to workers. The inflation adjusted incomes of Canadians have be flat since the 1970s, and we are much less secure and have inferior services like health and education.

Canada's reverse colonization of the British Isles begins ... don't worry, the food we bring will be a big step up. 🦫🍁

there's a saying "if it can be done, you can afford it"...it means that money is never the problem for currency-issuing entities, like "Europe". They always have enough Euros.

What is needed are the resources to do the thing - labour, material, organization.

A state can gently steer the resources using money as an inducement. Or it can just do it with power and laws.

Of course, creating Euros in this way means that the Euros aren't being created in the same way they are now - which is by paying them to those who already hold Euro bonds, and that makes them upset, and that's why it will take a while to happen.

so they only ban hateful content from balck guys now? Is that how this works? 🤷‍♂️

shlab

I'm not arguing in favour of libertarianism, it's nonsense. I'm pointing out some basic tenets of credit money. In whatever form currency is, it's always tied to state power over law and taxes. The rai stones are an OK example of it.

https://neweconomicperspectives.org/modern-monetary-theory-primer.html

there is not an item of currency attached to every asset on earth..There is vastly more real asset value than there is currency.

Modern currency is liquid float to help facilitate transactions among items having real value.

Currency itself has only one fundamental value - it's the only thing that can be used to settle taxes. This gives it a lot of exchange value - people will accept it in exchange for real value because they know there are always people needing to pay taxes, including themselves.

Ax the Ax the Tax

Sounds good to me. No point leaving a bunch of open senate seats for some future govt to fill.

I look forward to Trudeau's many non-partisan senators to blocking a future attempt by Poilievre to bypass the charter of rights using the notwithstanding clause federally. The senate would be right to reject that when conservatives try to advance attacks on whatever marginalized group they want blame for their own failings (probably transgendered people).

The senate would be right to reject that.

family farms are a tiny part of the ag industry. In the US it was under 10%. The image of a pastoral low-intensity 19th century family farm has been drilled into peoples' minds by food industry advertising for 100 years. People like that image but it's not real.

Ag is big business. Loans and leases for land, equipment, inputs, most of the labour isn't from the business operator.

There's probably under 10k family farms in Canada that would be impacted by a transfer to family and they can easily be exempted, it's chump change for tax revenue.