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Originally Posted by simmer2
I don't track them. Not sure there are any indicators for those.
There will be a lot of newspaper articles out there covering these types of stories.
I also just try to be a good person. Volunteer a bunch, be a good dad, neighbour, husband. Be kind.
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When your neighbour's 13yo child, your daughter's best friend, comes out as a trans boy to her friends and teacher, and you know your neighbour will kick that child out of the house with that knowledge, but your conservative government forces his school to tell his parents, and then that kid gets kicked out of his house, and starts growing breasts that make him absolutely suicidal, but your conservative government says he is not old enough for puberty blockers (which exist to delay puberty until someone is old enough to make careful decisions on puberty).
Now this kid is out on the streets, and gets raped. Thanks to not being on puberty blockers he is now pregnant. But your conservative government is the same one that has voted against abortion historically, only prevented from doing so because the liberals were in power and "popular" sentiment at that time was pro-choice (but popular sentiment is determined by popularity, and right now American media influenced sentiment in Canada whether we like it or not, and MAGA is anti abortion to extreme levels)
Meanwhile your conservative government thinks it is more important that someone making $200k a year get more TFSA room than ensuring they fund safe housing, dental care, day care, etc for that that now 14 yo who has for his entire lifetime viewed his life through the lens of a boy, who just gave birth to an unwanted child.
And now your conservative leader is taking fiscally motivated actions to privatize health care, so that 14yo parent won't even be able to afford basic health care for your neighbour's grand child.
Who exactly are you being kind to?
You cannot decouple social issues from fiscal policy and persist to call yourself a good person.
And you cannot look exclusively at official platforms either - voting history and words matter. That Pierre Poilievre that says that kid is not a boy, is not even nonbinary. That Pierre Poilievre that says everything I said above is "woke ideology".
And you can't ignore everything happening in USA and state that Canada is immune to it. Their media dominates the minds of our populace. Their corporations owns much of our media. Their propaganda machines lie through their teeth, as do Canadian propaganda machines like Rebel News - which is the only media the Conservative Leader will interact with.
All it takes is gradual shifts in public sentiment for your daughter's best friend to suddenly be a burden on society that needs to be shipped to El Salvador. "f the Americans do it, it must be okay".
We are living next to a borderline fascist state, and our conservative leader, rather than rejecting their style of politics and their sentiments... openly emulates it.
You cannot turn a blind eye to that.
I am so glad Pierre Poilievre was gracious in defeat on Monday.
The fact that we have to even discuss that our expectations of him were to be a sore loser who would call the election rigged is the problem with Pierre Poilievre, and by proxy the Conservative Party that voted him as their leader.