What legislation would you enact?

[Muta]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Drinking in public laws akin to those in the UK.

I wanna be able to have a beer on the C-Train heading to a concert or dinner or a game.

Honestly this is such a logical and overdue one. Many parts of the rest of the world have already allowed this for a long time. Having a beer in the park in Tokyo or Berlin is terrific (####, you can buy beer in vending machines in Japan). I know Calgary did those recent pilot projects in the parks (which I hope were successful), but make it permanent already.

It's weird that here you can have a beer on your lawn, but the minute you move onto the sidewalk a metre away, it's illegal. Hell you can drink in your house all day or at a bar, and then walk down the street, but if you bring the can with you, THAT'S the point where the problem lies? Strange.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Muta

Honestly this is such a logical and overdue one. Many parts of the rest of the world have already allowed this for a long time. Having a beer in the park in Tokyo or Berlin is terrific (####, you can buy beer in vending machines in Japan). I know Calgary did those recent pilot projects in the parks (which I hope were successful), but make it permanent already.

It's weird that here you can have a beer on your lawn, but the minute you move onto the sidewalk a metre away, it's illegal. Hell you can drink in your house all day or at a bar, and then walk down the street, but if you bring the can with you, THAT'S the point where the problem lies? Strange.

The dumbest part is that there’s already laws against public intoxication so that would take care of any issues anyways.

[BloodFetish]

All gas stations set one price for the day at 12PM. Once it's set they can't change it until noon the next day.

Mid-grade and premium gas is always a set price or percentage above regular. (I hate not knowing if a station wants to rape me for premium until I'm at the pump.)

[Johnny Makarov]

Mandatory castration for child rapists.

[Yamer]

1. Universal Basic Income - I ain't got none of them booksmarts to knows me how to make it work, but I'ms none too opposed to more taxation.

2. Student Loan Forgiveness - It's a travesty the hole you have to dig if you're not wealthy in order to better yourself and contribute in a meaningful way to the economy through the workforce. Make it goal/incentive driven, but let's eliminate this modern form of indentured servitude.

3. Eliminate tax exemptions on churches and religions - I don't really feel this needs anything after the dash mark, but here we are.

4. Establish a PST of 2% - I grew up paying 7% GST. I have no problem paying a PST that balances that total if it means the betterment of all Albertans.

Honorable acknowledgement: Passing a recurring civics test in order to vote. I get this is a pie in the sky standard, but the right to vote has been perverted by people that should never have the right to vote. We are constantly adjusting law and policy to account for the stupidest and most irresponsible people within our society, so why not apply it towards ####ing morons electing their fellow morons to oversee those laws and policies?

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Mathgod

Politicians who take money from corporations should have to wear the logos of their donors on their suits. Just like race car drivers.

We need public financing of election campaigns. Every citizen should be allocated a bit of money that they get to choose which candidate to give that money to for their campaign.

I like this. Ties in a bit to an idea I have that it should be illegal to publish poll results - there is far too much power in the hands of media to shape the narrative and establish the main 'contenders'.

StatsCan can do a standardized poll every 6 months and publish all of the data transparently. But I also like your idea of a non-randomized system for citizens to earmark their support.


I'd also reduce the voting age to 14. Every student should have at least one election occur where they can directly participate while they are in school. I don't care that a lot of 15 year olds are idiots. So are a lot of 25 and 35 and 65 and 75 year olds.

[#-3]

In no particular order, I have lots of ideas maybe not all particularly well articulated.

Democracy

Senate by Sortation. any individual can apply, a formula is in place that upweight peoples chances of being draw, for example you start with 100 balls in the sortation draw, but if any of your key demographic features are currently proportionally represented based on census data, then you can lose a couple of balls down to a minimum of 50. 10 year terms. (Age, Gender, Orientation, Race, Location, Place of Birth...)

Re-enforce that the senate has equal non-budgetary legislative power to the House, and both need to collaborate on all non budgetary policy. And they should have the power to introduce / debate and consider their own legislation that could be sent to the house for approval.

Productivity

Legislate maximum levels of public consultation for all types of projects, nuclear, wind mills, dams, housing, rail, stadiums, olympic bids... Make it easier to annex land at fair market value. Basically ignore the loud people and tell them to win an election if they want something different, but just let elected officials get stuff done if they want to do it.

Taxation
Engage in negotiations with other countries on a treaty around a strict tariff frame work for any country that does not meet a certain standard of corporate and capital gains taxation.

Increase on income taxes off-set by the elimination of the GST.

Automatic filing, The government should send you a link filled out with all of the information they already received from your employer / employers. And it is on you to amend it with credits, write offs... no response should be considered a filing as is.

Social
End the carbon tax credits, invest all money 0 interest financing for carbon reducing industrial equipment and personal goods like heat pumps, EVs...

End means testing on automatic refund benefits like CCB, just tax the riches income and capital gains at higher rates and return the benefits at equal rates, it reduces the risk of developing strong opposition to the programs.

Medical
Develop revenue neutral nationalized insurance plans that businesses can buy into instead of the private market for their employees.

Mandate that all private medical practices should be owner/operator. No corporate ownership of practice, if Dr wants to retire he has to sell it to the guy taking over (combine rules with very business friendly public financing options to help enable transition to less established partners).

Education
More / Cheaper / Easier to access options. Including a public service work experience program targeted at those who have not found schooling options they like, (planting trees, cutting fire lines, building public housing, roadway trash collection....) Anyone from 18-22 is eligible for 1 year of guaranteed employment on public projects.

Link future research grants to inflation, to avoid the risk of chilling future university reserach.

[gallione11]

Biggest ones for me (in the US)


No tax breaks at all for religious stuff.
Rich people pay their due and more. I saw something recently where the upper earners are paying less tax %wise than pretty much everyone else. Get rid of rich-tax breaks and you could fund so much more things ---->
point 2 -> taxed income cannot go to military $#%.

[Ferarri]

I would ban the Edmonton Oilers from existing. E=NG.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by opendoor

-Explore the possibility of a different model for hospitals. Some countries have non-profits run hospitals and they generally have more efficient delivery. Who knows if this would work in Canada, but it might be worth running some pilot projects.

Why do you want to privatize Healthcare!?!?!??!?!?!?!!!!111

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Canada is on the cutting edge of fusion research, but testing and production is being done in Japan and the UK.

We should be cutting past nuclear and hitting the next thing, but regulation and red tape is pushing our own best energy production to more forward thinking nations.

So, I'd fix that. Get fusion on line by 2050, so we can sell as much oil in the meantime as possible and still come out way ahead on climate concerns.

The fastest way to get to fusion is to have an army of well funded nuclear scientists.

The only way that can happen is off the back of fission reactors.

Which, it needs to be said, are the safest and cleanest form of power generation in the world when not being run by the KGB.

Fusion reactors won’t be commercially viable for another hundred years.

In 2022, there was a fusion breakthrough that actually achieved ignition in a controlled system - that is, more energy than was created than was put into the system. First time it ever happened outside a hydrogen bomb.

2M joules went in, 3M came out. - enough to run a hair dryer for four minutes.

Which is great, except that the lasers that put the 2M joules into the device required 200M joules of electricity to do their job, which also required 600M joules of energy from coal/natural gas/whTever their local power station was using.

It isn’t a matter of “getting it ready by 2050.”

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Originally Posted by opendoor

-Explore the possibility of a different model for hospitals. Some countries have non-profits run hospitals and they generally have more efficient delivery. Who knows if this would work in Canada, but it might be worth running some pilot projects.

I don't work in Healthcare so this idea might not work.

I think when you go to the ER when they triage you they should then send you either to the ER or a walkin clinic staffed by Nurse Practitioners. If you're diverted to the walkin you're taken first come, first serve.

That would divert the hang nails, minor ailments away from the ER, and people would then have an idea of the wait time as they'd go in order.

It reduces pressure on the ER Docs, and reframes expectations on the patient.

They would need different waiting rooms, but I really don't see the downside.

[White Out 403]

we live in such a globalized economy with such powerful multinational corporations im not sure what could be done at the local level to dramatically improve our lives. if i could make a law that every government would have to follow it would probably be something to change how corporation work and how they have to answer to shareholders and the public.

as it stands now we are slowly moving towards a bloodbath where there will be violent revolution against the unhinged greed of these evil corporations and their psychopathic ceos. we have so much wealth in our nation and yet foodbank usage has exploded to all time highs. its disgusting.

some of these rich ceos need to be treated like mussolini.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

we live in such a globalized economy with such powerful multinational corporations im not sure what could be done at the local level to dramatically improve our lives. if i could make a law that every government would have to follow it would probably be something to change how corporation work and how they have to answer to shareholders and the public.

as it stands now we are slowly moving towards a bloodbath where there will be violent revolution against the unhinged greed of these evil corporations and their psychopathic ceos. we have so much wealth in our nation and yet foodbank usage has exploded to all time highs. its disgusting.

some of these rich ceos need to be treated like mussolini.

You can tell this guy worked for a Canadian cell phone company.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

You can tell this guy worked for a Canadian cell phone company.

Radicalized by Telus.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

we live in such a globalized economy with such powerful multinational corporations im not sure what could be done at the local level to dramatically improve our lives. if i could make a law that every government would have to follow it would probably be something to change how corporation work and how they have to answer to shareholders and the public.

as it stands now we are slowly moving towards a bloodbath where there will be violent revolution against the unhinged greed of these evil corporations and their psychopathic ceos. we have so much wealth in our nation and yet foodbank usage has exploded to all time highs. its disgusting.

some of these rich ceos need to be treated like mussolini.

I think you need to see my 4th point.

We need a multi-lateral treaty that taxes imports from anywhere that does not tax their domestic capital holders properly. theoretic example Ireland averages 10% corporate tax rate everything coming from Ireland has a 5% tariff, no questions ask. It only works if you can align approaching 50% of the global economy with this.

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by #-3

Taxation
Engage in negotiations with other countries on a treaty around a strict tariff frame work for any country that does not meet a certain standard of corporate and capital gains taxation.

Increase on income taxes off-set by the elimination of the GST.

Automatic filing, The government should send you a link filled out with all of the information they already received from your employer / employers. And it is on you to amend it with credits, write offs... no response should be considered a filing as is.

This one is needed and it's embarrassing we are stuck following the German model of sending stuff by paper and other outdated 70s methods. To be fair, Netfile has been a godsend the past few years, but it's still not good enough. Filing taxes should not be the burden or ordeal that it is.

When I lived in Poland, filing taxes was a 2 mintue process once you figured out what to do. Your employer and banks/investment firms/other financial accounts submit everything on your behalf and upload everything to the tax portal. You log in, click a few buttons, fill in your bank info, confirm the docs, done. That's it. Got my refund a few weeks later.

To make it even better, when I went back to visit last year, I simply logged into my PL mobile banking app and it triggered the filing for the previous tax year automatically. Didn't even have to log into the tax portal. Logging into the bank app did it all for me. The refund was deposited a few days later. Literally all I did was log into the banking app to make sure it still worked and I ended up having a bunch of bonus money for my trip.

God forbid we make it easier for citizens to file something the government can already automate to be done automatically. But I guess way to much revenue to be made for people who file late.

[Engine09]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Mandatory castration for child rapists.

Or at the bare minimum stop playing Michael Jackson on the radio.

[Julio]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Nuclearize Canada’s electricity supply.

There are 39 natural gas power plants in this country - replace them with reactors.

Ontario already gets 60% of its power from nuclear.

Quebec gets 90% from Hydro.

We already make the safest reactors in the world - if climate change is the threat we’ve been led to believe, this is the solution.

Agree with your point in theory, but there are more than 39 gas plants in Alberta, let alone Canada.

[mikephoen]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

I’d ban all religion

Probably not realistic, but certainly their tax exempt status should have been taken away long, long ago. Make them pay taxes like the businesses that they are.