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Leopards ate their face?
92% of ~~votes cast~~ ridings won in Alberta this past federal election went to conservatives.
And we know that conservatives don't want pharmacare, disability support, aid for the homeless, childcare benefits, or anything else that would make life just slightly more survivable for certain demographics.
edit: for accuracy
Disabled guy here...Liberals don't care either. I highly doubt you would find any member of any political party at any level of government in Canada actively fighting for increases in disability payments and supports regularly. This is proven by decades of inactivity while disabled people scream into the wind.
Meanwhile some disabled people are publicly killing themselves with the use of government programs, while openly telling everyone why, instead of struggling to survive. No outcry. No rage. No nothing. From anyone. A story in the paper here and there and at a turn of the page any sympathy or even pity is gone to the next poor soul you don't really care about.
THIS ISN'T A CONSERVATIVE ISSUE. No government is interested in helping us. Most citizens aren't either or things would be different than they are.
Consider that you should be careful and also hope that you don't get sick. Your life could be ruined by a simple miscalculation or even a cancer you never heard of. But there won't be enough of you cripples to make a difference and everyone else couldn't give a shit until it happens to them so you're just perpetually fucked.
I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but our national dental care, low-cost childcare, pharmacare expansion (PEI just got free diabetes meds and birth control), were all thanks to the Liberal government (with help from the NDP).
Healthcare is a provincial responsibility, so feds provide the funding, and provinces decide on how to spend it (or even if they'll spend it... looking at you Doug Ford).
Things would be considerably more difficult with a conservative federal government, who would take away funding.
And I say this as an ADP recipient living in Ontario, where our provincial conservative government hasn't added a penny to the grant over the last 10 years, despite costs nearly doubling and all kinds of patient advocacy groups begging the government to offer more support.
I highly doubt the liberals would have done any of that if not for the NDP. They didn't implement any of it with "help" from the NDP, and only did it after the threat of toppling their government. Not exactly gonna clap for them when they weren't going to do it in the first place.
Well, these were all platform promises through many of those "lost Liberal years", so I'm not sure where the doubt comes from. They made good on their promise, and continue to deliver.
The NDP absolutely helped tip the scale when they had a minority government, because the cons would never give their support.
The point is, conservative governments don't like socialism when it helps people, and thank the gods that the liberals and NDP do!