OTTAWA – Pushing a grocery cart up and down the aisles of Loblaws, Jagmeet Singh has to admit it’s all a little bit awkward. After all, the NDP leader has lambasted the grocery giant and...
We're too unwilling to use punitive taxation against the rich, and we shouldn't be.
When you make millions, or billions, per year in post-tax profit you can certainly afford it. And if they don't want to pay the tax, they can invest those profits back into their business.
Singh’s private member’s bill, which aims to bring down the cost of basic essentials, passed second reading in the House of Commons with the support of Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs.
Liberals have voted against the bill, with some accusing the NDP leader of trying to stifle free enterprise.
Why, in Canada, is the only party that tries to address most people's problems also the only party that people never vote into government? Why do Canadians run back and forth between Liberals and Conservatives when neither will work for their well being?
They make boneheaded decisions occasionally like supporting the porn ID bill and it’s enough to make people hesitate.
There’s also a common narrative online that the NDP doesn’t actually support or care about labour anymore. It doesn’t really hold up when you actually take a critical look into the NDP’s actions but that’s too much effort for most people.
Because every time the NDP get in power they try to make drastic changes that hurt them in the short term. It takes a party more than one term to figure out how hard you can pull the levers of government without causing major issues, and the NDP can't get over that hurdle provincially. Notley's AB NDP were the most pragmatic NDP so far, but Alberta's gonna Alberta.