What legislation would you enact?

[Harry Lime]

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.

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.

[surferguy]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

What about the small parties?

I would ban election signage on public property.

Perhaps a pro rated amount for smaller parties?

Once you hit a certain level then you hit a maximum amount.

I’m not sure what the criteria would be required to be considered a legitimate party and not a band of grifters.

[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.

[KelVarnsen]

I’d ban all religion

[Dion]

For 1 day a year all customer service/retail worker would be allowed to respond to abusive and demeaning customers. That would include public floggings of 40 lashes to remind people to be polite and respectful.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

I’d ban all religion

Even Festivus?

[Bonded]

I’d implement UBI while cutting other safety nets.
Legalize most drugs and sell in regulated stores that collect revenues to implement harm reduction and rehab policies.
Re-jig corporate taxes to encourage wage growth and investment versus shareholder growth.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Easy: upper age limits on voting. You cant vote until you’re 18 and also can no longer vote once you’ve reached mandatory retirement age. Gotta stop letting the people leaving the restaurant order for the next table.

I wouldn’t go for voting but I’d make it so you can’t be a politician if you are older than the retirement age.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by you&me

I would introduce and encourage foreign competition for the main Canadian oligopolies in the banking, telecom, airline and grocery sectors.

The companies we have are not the ones we deserve.

This would just kill our current telecoms, banks, grocers and airlines and leave us with much worse American owned versions.

Regulation and breaking up monopolies I think is a much better option.

[Sainters7]

Definitely rental caps. Rent almost doubling on people in just over a year is completely insane. I actually can't believe that's legal here.

[Sr. Mints]

Compulsory voting. All eligible citizens aged 18 and over are required to enroll and vote in federal, provincial, and local elections. Failure to vote would result in a fine. You file taxes? You vote.

I don't know why 20-30% voter turnouts chap my ass so much, but it does.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Increase highway speed limits to 140. It's fkn joke they haven't changed since we were all cruising around in Chevettes, Omnis and Cordobas.

What kind of power is your rascal putting out???

[bluejays]

I don't know what the answer is when it comes to automation and AI but more than just entry level jobs are being eliminated. How is society supposed to function when for the sake of profitability jobs are continually automated. That would be my target for the next twenty years. And I'd also require doctors who got their license here to practice here for at least 15 years or they give up their license. Too many doctors take from the Canadian system and look for more profits in the states. Fair enough, but don't tell me $300,000 isn't a good salary. It's partially why the healthcare system is going down the tubes.

[La Flames Fan]

Originally Posted by Bonded

I’d implement UBI while cutting other safety nets.
Legalize most drugs and sell in regulated stores that collect revenues to implement harm reduction and rehab policies.
Re-jig corporate taxes to encourage wage growth and investment versus shareholder growth.

I love this idea of a significant incentive for corporations that foster permanent, well paying jobs. "Shareholder Value" is the worst thing that's happened to our society and capitalism.

Also...if an individual makes over a certain amount, say $50,000,000...anything they make over that is taxed at 95% - who the eff needs more than that?

[FacePaint]

I'd introduce a Job Guarantee federally, one that pays a living wage.

[PaperBagger'14]

Any protestors blocking or marching on roadways (unless properly permitted) are facing heavy fines for the individual, jail time for organizers. Same goes for blocking railways and encampments. Publically name every participant who breaks these rules.

[SutterBrother]

I'd ban cell phones in schools.

I'd ban social media for everyone under the age of 18 with the notable exception of CalgaryPuck.

I'd remove tax exempt status for all religious groups. They can exist, but their profits and property will now be taxed.

I'd have mandatory mental health facilities for those who are found homeless with mental heath issues and/or drug addiction. The war on drugs may have failed... but what we have now is worse.

You should have to pass a on the road driver's test every 5 years. It'll be annoying as f, but will save a lot of lives.

People over the retirement age shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Those 18-25 should receive a stipend for college/trade school for each and every year that they do vote. Will get them used to it.

[opendoor]

I'm sure these have significant drawbacks that I'm not thinking of, but it's worth a shot:

Housing:

-Increase the inclusion rate for capital gains on residential housing to 100%. Low risk-free returns over the last 20 years have led to real estate investors accepting terrible returns for real estate, which inherently drives the price of housing up. Some will even accept a cash flow negative situation on the assumption that the price will rise dramatically. By reducing the anticipated return for investors, there should be less upward pressure on prices due to investors/speculators. The utility of housing should drive sale prices, not cap rates. And if necessary, create a partial carve out for pre-construction purposes. Sometimes investors are needed to make multi-unit projects viable, so you wouldn't necessarily want to eliminate them.

-Large increase in investment in purpose-built rental stock. Offer significant tax breaks for construction of purpose-built rental units and/or get back into government-funded rental housing like we saw in the 1960s and 1970s.

-Strongly incentivize reduction in red tape for building housing. For most things I'm of the opposite opinion and think that strong regulations are important, but some of the timelines and requirements for getting a building permit are downright ridiculous. All they do is add significant cost and time, creating barriers to affordable housing. BC is starting something interesting that might help, where they're standardizing building permits and requirements across jurisdictions while automating things like checking for application completeness and building code compliance. Obviously that can only do so much, so there also needs to be significant other initiatives.

Taxes/Deficit reduction:

-Dramatically scale back OAS benefits for high earners and high net worth individuals. Currently, a couple earning $175K in retirement still get full OAS benefits, and they're not fully clawed back on a 2-person household until they're earning nearly $300K. I would significantly lower both thresholds. I'd also institute a clawback on people with significant assets. Might be easier said than done, but there's zero reason why someone sitting on millions of dollars in money should be getting full OAS benefits just because they keep their income under $90K a year.

Healthcare:

-Introduce payroll taxes that are devoted entirely to funding healthcare. Canada's total payroll taxes are about 10% of gross earnings, whereas most European countries are in the 20-30% range to fund their superior healthcare systems. I wouldn't go nearly that high, as we have to compete with the US, but there's no reason we couldn't have a modest one that's paid by employers and employees.

-Significantly increase the number of available spots for doctors and nurses in school. Also subsidize them more heavily, but make the subsidy contingent on them remaining in Canada for a period of time after graduation (say 10 years). Healthcare professionals might not like it because it'd drive down their pay, but there's no reason why we should be paying 50-100% more than what many European countries are paying.

-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.

[SutterBrother]

Instead of shootouts after tied regulation games, each team selects 1 player from the stands. The goalies are replaced by dogs. There are 2 pucks. First team to score wins.

How is this worse?

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

I'd remove tax exempt status for all religious groups. They can exist, but their profits and property will now be taxed.

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So many weird things in this country that use this loophole. There should probably be a W5 or something on the mess this has made of the transportation industry in particular.