thisorthatorwhatever

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[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Progressives are 100% on board with changing the way law enforcement is done

The left can't communicate what it wants law enforcement to be.

unmanageable levels

We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That's 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.

Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That's like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The wages of the extra politicians would be completely insignificant. People can't really seem to comprehend the money governments spend, and on what.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

...neo-liberalism goes away when ridings get smaller. People focus on solving local issues. Currently with such big ridings, anything local and of importance doesn't even get mentioned or solved politically.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

The police forces are controlled by very right wing people, they don't put any energy into causes that they don't like, like loud and reckless driving cars.
It would be good to make the police forces more responsive to the communities they serve, but the left has no interest. Legalize drugs, make they only available through license sellers...and go after the unauthorized seller very very very hard, because those people don't care about you, or making Canada better.

It's also that the riding are too bid at 100,000 people, and should be 30,000 at most. Combine the large riding with FPTP and people in both rural/urban areas don't get the representation that they are looking for and become dissatisfied. We'd have more than 3 parties with smaller ridings, and we'd have to address more local issues.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Riding are too big, imagine if we had riding of 30,000 instead of 100,000. You'd get very local candidates making their way to Parliament, with very local issues to deal with. It would be less polarizing, and help solve local problems.

Ranked ballots are soooo much better than FPTP, why won't the NDP and other lefties see that ranked ballots are good. Why/how did proportional representation become a purity test of the ultra left?

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

...the Singh centre-left got lots of stuff done in Canada like a dental plan.

The left needs simpler ideas, like 'we'll just hire your kids right out of trade school, and give them a job building 500,000 social housing units' so they can make money and get experience'.
The left also needs to get tough on crime. Get rid of the violence in prisons by making them safe, but put lots more people behind bars.

Many jobs SHOULD be public sector jobs. Like water utilities, garbage collection, electrical utilities, teaching, college teacher.

These public sector jobs should be 4 days a week, with a 5th day of retraining/training. So people keep gaining more skills encase technology changes the workforce, and make peoples' lives more meaningful.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

...also there have always been great divisions in society. Look at Ireland Catholic vs. Protestant. Even in Ontario in the early days of this country each region was very different from the rest.

The main problem that we have now, is that ridings are too big, at 100,000 each. They should be no more than 30,000. That way people really get represented. This would also allow smaller region parties to establish themselves, like in the early days of Canada. It would also allow parties to be more fluid, coming into existing, transforming into another party. Without proper representation people are not represented.

First-Past-The-Post must go, it is not democratic. At the very minimum have runoff elections, even better to automate them with ranked ballots.

The 'Wild West' wasn't all that wild or lawless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR7EBBXcQUg it was probably safer than life today in Canada. Don't let all the dumb Hollywood movies fool you.

 

Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn't have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can't compete.

 

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

 

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

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