[martythemaniak]

Canada also suffers from lack of competitiveness, productivity, etc and I always wonder if we actually have the political constituency for a pro-growth agenda. I don't think we do it seems the group that would vocally back this is likely <10% of the population and probably low-engagement/apolitical. Europeans seem to give off the same vibe, if not more so.

For example the governing Liberals have been pretty bad on the economic file and will most certainly lose the election next year, but the alternatives are: 1) A Russian-propaganda fuelled Conservative party led by an obsessive culture warrior who's never known life outside politics (a 45 year old who has been an MP for 20 years) 2) a leftist party that thinks more regulation and taxes is what we need.

The "Abundance Agenda" types just don't fit in anywhere, except perhaps as a small faction of the Liberals.

[eastbound]

> A Russian-propaganda fuelled Conservative party

The “russian” accusation does not hold. It never has. It’s only a big mixup of ideas that can’t withstand being explained rationally. For example: CNN said about 5600 times in 2019 that they had “definitive proof” that Trump was a Russian asset. Still no such proof has been shown in public.

I recommend to re-study whether those are really russian-fueled, or whether they are not just good ideas that you don’t like because they question your lifestyle at first sight.

[VancouverMan]

The mainstream media and established parties have wrongly tried to portray them as "extremists" or "fringe", but the People's Party of Canada's platform is by far the most reasonable, balanced, and sensible out there:

https://www.thepeoplespartyofcanada.ca/issues

It isn't perfect (their proposed immigration rate is far too high, for example), but unlike all of the other parties, at least what they propose would generally steer Canada in a much better direction than it has been going in under the Liberals and Conservatives.