Your thoughts on the Libertarian Party's platform?
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The libertarian position is that employers will treat workers well to attract better workers and discourage unionism. It's a hyper-rationalist and hyper-optimistic view of the economy. We have historical examples of laissez faire economics. Has business historically treated workers well when given a free reign?
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Supporting the legislation you described would not be ideologically consistent for libertarianism. But the platform you posted does contain compromises, so maybe they could support that kind of legislation.
For all their flaws, I think we can agree that a few Libertarian MP's in Parliament won't have to power to implement their entire platform anyway, just enough to make the CPC fearful of vote splitting.
I also agree that the Libertarian Party position on deregulation if the banking sector is foolish.
Subsidies or tax credits? Very very very few get subsidies. Things like R&D, green tech, infrastructure get subsidies.
Have the Greens swayed a vote? How many did the Bloc throw?
Since your political views are shared by only 10-12% of Canadians ... well, by definition ...
If you are one of those few percent of your "I'll do whatever the hell I want to and nobody is going to stop me" anarchist brethren, the two groups together probably amount to something like 15% of the populace. The occurance of that sort of mind space is probably similar to the incidence of homosexuality in relation to the greater population. That doesn't make you a sociopath but it certainly does make your behaviour "fringe".
Who gets fossil fuel subsidies? We know it is not oil companies or working people. So that leaves the government and those that choose not to work.
Should Libertarians run candidates nationwide, this could pose a serious vote-splitting threat to precarious Conservative ridings, which would result in the CPC wanting to try to court it.
Big pharma is the biggest drug dealer in the country. Even have the government providing protection and collections for them.
You don,'t have that much traction. This country is nothing like Arizona. It's a lot more like Denmark.
The abolition of slavery and universal suffrage for women used to be fringe too.
I wouldn't mind libertarians in parliament, but I wouldn't want any representing me. Let Alberta suffer them.
And I wouldn't want the Conservative party to have to move further to the right to fend off vote splitting from the libertarians. Chances are they would calculate it too risky to lose the centre for the sake of a few nuts.
Honestly, if the NDP had policies that were way more like Sweden's overall (though I disagree with some Swedish policies too), I could see myself voting for it. I'm not fundamentally libertarian, but if the government is going to spend stupidly and pass stupid laws, then the Libertarian Party might be a good place to park my vote in the mean time, depending on the local candidate of course.
Lol. True enough, true enough.
But are they really nuts? How so?
I also stand corrected on a previous comment. The Libertarian Party of Ontario now supports a voucher programme the details of which I am unfamiliar. The Libertarian Party of Canada would not initiate the removal of separate schools from the constitution but would do so at Ontario's request for Ontario. So unless we have an Libertarian Ontario government, the Federal Libertarians would leave it alone.
Aside from that, they would eliminate official bilingualism or at least reduce it.
They are very open to an internationally open labour market. Many good points.
You have Libertarians periodically in Parliament . They always start out as Conservative MPs and then they get pissed off at their party for one thing or another ... a pro abortion stance .. an anti abortion stance ... Cripes, a stance of any kind that runs agasinst their grain and "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore" and lo and behold, another independent MP from jerkwater some-where-or-other. The have been times when the centrifugal forces represented by "tough guys" like that have threatened the party's ability to get elected.
Stay home, for gawd sakes. Yell at the CBC , throw your empty beer cans at the screen and stop trying to make the Conservative party less electable. There WILL NOT be a Tea Bag movement, here. It is a different country with a different culture and history and Libertarianism will never fly, Orville.
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There are Libertarian candidates in SK. Ridings that were NDP strongholds 10 years ago are all now Conservative. Not a one remains and lonely Liberal Ralph remains.
As strange as it might sound to you, Federally I've voted NDP and Green candidates... when I didn't cast a blank ballot that is. Provincially, Progressive Conservative, Libertarian, NDP, and Green. I voted Progressive Conservative last election cause the local Libertarian candidate wasn't very competent.
It's not always predictable how a party would split the vote. In my case ironically, Federally at least, the Libertarian Party could steal my vote from any of the major parties including Green. There are things in it even social democrats can appreciate.