The NDP needs to be as radical as possible and draw attention to the fact that both parties on the top are fucking us over equally.
Yes but also we need proportional representation so that the NDP isn’t there just to re-calibrate what left/right means
The problem I see is there a lot of hair brained ideas like government run grocery stores. Margins on grocery stores are tiny, so prices will be unable to fall significantly. The thing I was hoping the NDP would tackle is zoning, which is where corporation like Loblaws do have high margins, due to the scarcity of land due to regressive and sprawled zoning laws; alongside a lack of mixed use residential.
The NDP also supported mass immigration to depress wages for Canadians and create a double digit youth unemployment, there was no rebuke of that policy that Loblaws and Tim Hortons lobbied for. This is how Pierre was attaining the youth and the union vote, people obviously dont want massive money printing that inflates the price of goods, followed by mass immigration to reverse the created wage pressure as per the phillips curve.
I think that more Crown Corps would be best. People often are reminiscent of the good old days, while ignoring that those days had way more government involvement and public companies, wages were higher (compared to goods) when there were more and stronger unions.
The same people who want the those old times back are the same people who fight social services, public sector jobs, etc.
“Why won’t the government do more for me, also I want less taxes and those in public sector positions to make as little as possible”
I would love to see a return of a public oil company like when we had pertolcanada or our nuclear industry to make a comeback.