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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I think the first one - good jobs for young people - is the biggest one the CPC can focus on. And to me that starts with a massive increase in subsidized cross country post-secondary education. Providing hope and opportunity for those in rural areas, mainland Vancouver and the GTA. It's a winning policy. Everyone who has kids can see that coming out of university with $100k+ in debt is a true hardship for middle class families, but you need a post-secondary education to get ahead these days
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I think this is a terrible idea. First, post secondary education is already subsidized, and in fact, it is because of subsidization and ease of obtaining student loans that the cost of tuition is so high. Second, blindly pushing post secondary education on everyone is not going to improve the job situation for young people. Mindlessly sinking 4 years and 5-6 figures into an education that has little value in the job market is a big part of the problem these days, and your idea would only make that worse. Third, this would be the exact opposite of being fiscally conservative, so why should the CPC go anywhere near this idea?
I am noticing that people seem to be interpreting their own personal misgivings about the Conservative party as to the reason that they lost. The CPC lost because they have regressive social values... they lost because they aren't fiscally progressive enough... I don't think that is it.
In Ontario, the electorate tends to be pretty sleepy. They vote because everyone mindlessly repeats the mantra that you have to vote no matter what, so they tend to vote for the incumbent. Until, they get tired of the incumbent. 4 years was simply not enough time for that to have happened. I suspect that if the CPC were to run the exact same platform after an additional 4 years of Trudeau, they would win a majority easily, and it would be largely due to Ontario. All of this talk about the CPC needing to radically change who they are if they ever hope to win again is naive. And seriously, what would be the point of having 2 liberal parties?