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Originally Posted by Goriders
Can you give some examples. His main platforms seem to be lowering taxes, trying to build more housing, cleaning up immigration, shrinking government influence and supporting industries.
Not sure how any of those things are bad for the country.
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Those all sound great....
But putting those into policies is more difficult; and doesn't reflect the push and pull of voters, stakeholders, and lobbyists.
Build more housing. Sounds easy enough; but the government can't (or won't) be involved in that process. It has no control over the ability of companies to finance housing starts and to meet the supply/demand ratio.
There are also competing interests in housing starts. One of the obvious ways to increase housing is to adjust zoning requirements, which seems to have immense pushback from PPs very same voter demographic. How is this to be managed? More sprawl? more costs.
Lowering taxes obviously comes with lower government revenue which needs to be made up some how. Whose taxes are being lowered? how is the revenue replaced? user fees? provincial / municipal transfers?
Cretien is pretty well praised for his lowering of the federal deficit in the 90's but that happens to coincide with increased deficits in many provinces as they had to make up the shortfall.
So, the CPC says they will cut government spending? on what? is it enough to make up the shortfall in lowered taxes plus the ongoing deficits were are experiencing?
what about commitments to defence spending?
Cleaning up immigration is probably something that should be done - although the Libs are slowly catching on; however, i would love to see the CPC fight this issue against its business interests.
support industries? in what way? which industries?
These are all platitudes and doesnt show "real leadership" as is so demanded.
Canada has major structural problems, but none of the current parties are willing to correct them - part of that is political will, but part of it is Canadians themselves.