I'm tired of the same old issues being brought up again in elections and politics. Let's look at NAFTA in the 1980s, nothing more than a revival of the Reciprocity debate that started in the 1880s, and that itself going back to older debates about mercantilism! Or what about Official Bilingualism? Language politics was covered by Gibbon in his Decline and Fall when referring to the language conflict between Latin and Greek about 2000 years ago. And it was brought up even earlier in the Book of Genesis in the Tower of Babel story about 3000 years ago. Whether to increase or lower taxes is a debate that has gone on for well over a century already, and still going on. And there are plenty of other such examples that make us wonder if it's even worth voting if we're just going to be debating the same old issues again in a hundred years under a different name.
So on this note, what new issues would you like to see brought up for your next local, provincial, territorial, or federal election that is relatively new? In other words, it would have to be an issue that has not been brought up often in previous elections. It needn't necessarily be a new issue per se, but it would need to be one that has seldom been brought up in previous elections, at least in that jurisdiction, something fresh as opposed to a hackneyed issue that's been debated ad nauseum.
What issues could you recommend for upcoming elections that might break the cycle of seesaw law-making going back and forth election after election?
So on this note, what new issues would you like to see brought up for your next local, provincial, territorial, or federal election that is relatively new? In other words, it would have to be an issue that has not been brought up often in previous elections. It needn't necessarily be a new issue per se, but it would need to be one that has seldom been brought up in previous elections, at least in that jurisdiction, something fresh as opposed to a hackneyed issue that's been debated ad nauseum.
What issues could you recommend for upcoming elections that might break the cycle of seesaw law-making going back and forth election after election?