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Originally Posted by Mathgod
I consider myself a pragmatic progressive with leftist leanings (though I reject the extreme left, ie: the ones who refuse to vote for a centrist to keep the far right out of power).
Having said that, I'm open minded to sometimes accepting centrist positions on some issues, depending on the situation. So I reject your notion that only centrists are open-minded and flexible.
Can you point to specific situations where the right-wing position (rather than the left or center) was the correct one, pertaining to the 3 topics you listed?
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I don't know about far left and far right, but I can tackle left and right, using the Trudeau liberals as the left.
Immigration - infrastructure has to define the level of immigration. This includes housing availability. You can't destroy the standard of living for people already in Canada, based on a metric saying that we need more people, without including all available variables.
Military - funding is way below where it should be, for way too long. I actually think that it would now cost way too much to rebuild a conventional military from what is essentially Scratch. Some outside of the box thinking is needed. Funding and follow through.
Environment- Canada has really very little effect on climate change. We like to think that we are big players, but we are not. And we don't lead anyone by example. No one is watching. Make money hand over fist, and then mandate a good portion of the windfall into solving global problems, that you would give the world for free.