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This is the first time in a long time that I have been truly inspired by the position expressed on so many points I care about.

That’s exactly what Lewis represents for so many of us. The ideas of common sense unapologetic democratic socialism is the Canadian mainstream. We have been holding out noses for so long it’s surprising to remember what clean air smells like.

I think Tenille shone very brightly throughout the race. She’s definitely a rising star in the NDP for all the right reasons. I’m so glad she and Avi were sitting together and she was the first on the stage with him.

Let’s goooo

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility.

It denies that right to thousands of people who already legally made a claim. Their human right to seek asylum is being denied.

How would you like it if you had taken all the legal steps to apply for asylum and then a government comes and retroactively decided that, “no, your application never even happened, fuck you”?

And then, let’s be clear. Even if 80% (a percentage I pulled out of my ass to look “high”, it could well be much less than that) of the 19,000 applications that are likely to be impacted were going to be rejected anyway, that means that 20% of them are legitimate cases. That would be 3800 people who are genuine refugees for whom Canada will just trample over their legitimate right to asylum. The MS St Louis that Canada famously forbade from unloading Jewish refugees fleeing from the fucking Holocaust had about 900 passengers, about 200 of whom ended up in gas chambers. Those 900 people are a stain in Canada’s history. And now we are just cancelling the applications, without any recourse, of many times over their number. We should have learned the lesson of MS St Louis.

Gee if only there was a way to tell who is seeking asylum for good reasons and who isn’t. Maybe some kind of process where you can apply and then the government can examine the application on its merits and make a decision? Oh wait.

“People” were not blaming immigrants, the right wing propaganda machine was. Immigrants pay taxes, start businesses, innovate and create wealth. The anti-immigration rhetoric risks making Canada a right wing shithole country like the US.

Bullshit. The government is wasting millions on defense, on oil and gas tax exemptions and subsidies, and on a whole host of other wasteful and pointless programs to benefit the capitalist class. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right under article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If claims have gone up, 10 times, hire and train more staff to handle them. There are communities in the Maritimes with staggering levels of unemployment, and the Trump tarifs are making us shed jobs. So the government could at the same time uphold Canada’s moral standing AND give employment to Canadians.

Shameful. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Canada has voted for and signed. This supposed centrist government is literally trampling on the fundamental human rights and on Canada’s own treaty obligations.

Shame shame shame shame on the minority Liberal government for proposing it and for any party that enables them to pass it.

Sounds like we need to tax shits like this out of political influence.

A waste of resources.

Regressives keep focusing on what’s really important in this day and age.

I understood your text as saying that we should flood the areas close to transit with studio apartments. If that’s the type of accomodation that’s mostly available close to transit that would make it so that families (who tend to need multiple bedroom apartments) would not have enough options close to transit.

This sounds like 1998.

Well, the Greens need to also connect the dots between protecting the environment and dismantling the exploitative economic system that fucks us all over. The UK Greens are doing it pretty well at the moment and from what I’ve seen from Lowan the BC Greens are also going down that lane.

The Greens seem to have a plucky and dynamic new leader?

Why shouldn’t families be able to live close to transit?

“Luxury” means “market value”, i.e., will be rented/sold for maximum profit margin.

In Canada, we have loads of housing with few rooms. That’s part of the whole fucking problem, that housing that does get built is not designed to serve people’s needs but to be an asset whose value will appreciate the most over time. So you get entire towers of 1 bedroom apartments that then can’t be sold because people need space to leave and aren’t willing to pay “asset” prices.

The most important thing we can do to address the housing crisis is to break the back of the insane system that financializes housing. And yes, that includes building, and building a lot, but not little “asset” shoeboxes in the sky, but non-market apartments where people can live and have families.