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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Some of these will be extreme, and I hope we can all moderate each others ideas in the pursuit of finding common ground.

If you want to run for office, there's a section at the bottom for your donor list as of the moment you enter the race and your tax returns. Failing to provide these means you do not appear on the ballot, and all write-in ballots will be disqualified.

My personal pipe dream would be to ban all political advertising period outside of signs and fliers. I don't wanna see you on the side of CP in a banner ad, I don't want you playing before a Youtube clip - if you have a message, go talk to your constituents. Gain momentum. Stand for something. Don't just get a bunch of money behind you and run attack ads.

Failing an outright ban, some form of limitation on number or frequency of political ads.

I would extend this to government advertisments to the extent that paid messages from the government of Canada must be as apolitcal as possible - they are not allowed to tout the government's achievements or put lipstick on a pig.

I'd like to see minors allowed to challenge for the right to vote. Say at age 14 or 16, whenever you get your learner's permit, you can also take a test that features ten or twenty questions that proves you pay attention and care, and if you pass you get to vote. The more people you have voting, the better; it doesn't matter who they vote for, what matters is that they do.

I'd cap taxes at 50% across all levels of government - if the total amount of tax you pay exceeds half of your gross annual earnings, you should be made whole. I don't care how rich you are, I don't think it's fair for anyone to spend more than half their year working for money that they never see.

We should also invest in an electronic voting system. Something with nuke proof encryption. Register with your SIN number and address - again, the more voters the merrier.

Renegotiate NAFTA so that we have proper control over our water resources.

Establish a deadline for when we will no longer allow the sale of internal combustion cars - England has set 2040. China and India will do this soon if they haven't already, and then what are the world's automakers going to do? Build one set of cars for America and another for the rest of the world? No, they'll go full electric. So get out in front this.

Invest more in space exploration. Like, a lot more. I'd go so far as to say try and put a Canadian on the moon.

What else you got?

I hate to be pedantic, but those last few have nothing to do with a better democracy and are just policies you like. You could have a democracy that's just as good and not implement those things...