Remember folks: Polls are voter manipulation. Look at what it did for Ontario… For WEEKS before the election, polls kept predicting a landslide for the CPO… Which demotivated voters – and 17% of eligible voters gave them a 66% majority.
Fuck the polls – show the fuck up to vote, and take three friends/neighbours with you. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
High cost of living, unsustainable gas prices, runaway climate change, housing crisis, stagnant wages.
I’m sure the right wingers will be the perfect solution to these problems.
Well yeah, Trudeau stuck his foot in his mouth about housing, and continues to not solve the massive problem. I get the anger, and since “progressive” Neoliberals can’t solve it, they’re turning to Pierre.
Yes, let’s follow Pierre’s solution.
Wait. What is it again? Aside from “suck it hair guy” they don’t have a platform.
I love how this decades-old problem is being hung around Trudeau’s neck and the only apparent solution is a nothingburger from a team usually gleefully fucking over the plebes.
I can’t stand PP (he panders too much to extremists like antivaxxers and anti-trans chuds like Dr Peterson and was anti-spending during pandemic shut-downs) but his approach to housing is probably the best one on the table: he wants to specifically target municipal red tape and punish cities by cutting federal funding to large cities that don’t upzone and hit their housing targets. These are specific policy planks with hard numbers in them. There are parts I disagree with (like restricting it to municipalities over 0.5M residents) but it’s the right direction.
I’m firmly in the YIMBY camp, and PP is the only person talking anything approaching sense on that particular issue. Ford had the Housing Affordability Task Force tell him the same thing, and he threw away 99% of their recommendations and instead focused on handing the Greenbelt out to his croneys.
Trudeau has the Housing Accelerator Fund for similar purpose, but that’s carrots instead of sticks. Municipalities have spent decades fighting tooth and nail against infill housing, they deserve sticks and not carrots. It was municipal governments that put us behind this 8-ball, and then the post-pandemic era sunk it.
edit: downvote away, but the fact is he does have a specific plan. Unfortunately NatPo is the only media source I could find writing about it - better-media sources with info and analysis of his plan welcome.
Are you in Ontario? Because Conservatives “cutting red tape” on municipal planning means greenlighting sprawling mcmansion developments on remote farmland, and resort style condo towers in town. Neither of which are intended, or help the housing affordability issue. It’s actually the reverse; we have municipalities trying to get developers to infill, and getting overwritten by ministerial zoning orders.
It’s a summertime poll in a non-election year. It’s about as useless as tits on a fish.
Outside of election season in general. No poll has any real value as they swing wildly back and forth depending on what’s going on.
Most voters have such short term memory that they forget what’s been said and done outside of election season unless if it gets memed on.
We’re fucked. Even more, I mean.
