How can anyone look at the NDP's platform and not realize the only realistic outcome will be higher taxes and more debt.
- Creating middle class jobs by cutting tax rate for SB 2% and investing money in innovation and clean technologies. (Less tax revenue and more money spent on "job creation" = debt)
- Create a million childcare spaces for our kids and cap fees for parents – no more than $15 a day. It’s a plan that will save young families money and enable greater participation in the workforce – especially for women. (Will be subsidized by the Gov = debt)
- Help communities fix roads and bridges by transferring an extra cent of the existing gas tax to municipalities. And he’ll shorten commute times by partnering with cities on a Better Transit Plan — creating 31,000 good jobs in the process. (More gov. spending = debt)
- Cancel the Conservative decision to raise the retirement age — bringing it back down to 65. And he’ll work tirelessly to strengthen public pensions while protecting workplace pensions. (Chretien gov. was the first to say the CPP was broken, Cons made the choice that had to be made and expect that age to slip more, paying out more CPP = debt)
- Stop unilateral Conservative cuts to health and get back to working collaboratively with provinces and territories to improve primary care and expand access to long-term and primary care. (More health care = debt)
I also don't personally feel like Canada lacks reasonable environmental policies, between the laws and regulations at provincial and federal levels you can't get away with basically anything. Do emissions concern me? Yes, but our emissions are a drop in the bucket in the global picture (@1.47% compared to China and USA at approximately 20% each) though I will concede that our emissions per capita are high but that's only a result of us being a very resource based economy with an insane amount of vehicles on the road.
People in this thread shaming the cons for the current senator "scandals" and overspending, well you can apply that to every party that's ever served Canada lol.
Though Harper is totally full of shit with his balanced budget rhetoric.
Edit: We have generationally fucked as millennials (A large portion of this site), you had the boomers that did well and got filthy rich, and you have the boomers who shit the bed in life, now we are in a situation where today we have 4.9 tax payers per retiree and by 2030 that number is estimated to be 2.7, CPP will but incredible pressure on the Canadian economy in the coming years while these people also burden the health care system like never before. ( Due to the number of people >65)
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Consider how our country is changing. Back in 1971 there were 7.8 people between the ages of 15-64 in Canada for every person over the age of 65. By 2010 that ratio had shrunk to just 4.9 people of working age for every retiree. By 2030 the federal government expects the ratio to shrink again; to just 2.7 people of working age for each retiree. This change can be chalked up to the massive “baby boom” generation born after World War II and a subsequent drop in the birth rate.
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So while our generation seems very cranky with the cons, keep in mind that the problems we face today, are largely caused by decisions made decades ago, and there should probably be a limit to how much we let past generations burden us, just as we should be responsible to not burden those that come after us.