What I want


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This list is not exhaustive nor fully compiled, and will change.

  • universal healthcare (without privatisation), including dental, medications, mental health, and therapies
  • fully subsidised education from pre-k to the end of university, college, or trades training
  • a strong social safety net that may include things like a basic income (not sure which format though), small business startup costs/supports, robust EI
  • nationalised basic phone service, internet service, transit
  • fully subsidised school meal programs from pre-k through the end of university, college, or trades training
  • housing first policies
  • that all members of municipal government should be involved in community supports of some kind prior to their stint in office or they can't run, and required also to perform a certain amount of hours of such work that is not directly tied to work-related activities. If you don't know the people, should you be serving them? Can you?
  • the eradication of FPTP voting at the federal and provincial level, and the implementation of something proportional
  • the reproductive rights of all women, girls, and transpersons
  • reparations to all the indigenous peoples of Canada
  • low to no-cost childcare
  • folding of any religion-based school system into the public one, or the removal of public funding from such schools
  • the building of free third spaces, including parks, parkettes, community and meeting spaces, sports and recreation, media and maker spaces, and youth-friendly spaces
  • the implementation of a system similar to what other countries have where kids are required to participate in extracurriculars, but they are fully funded. This should concentrate on the inclusion of more casual sports participation (not everyone wants or needs to be a pro, and kids shouldn't be made to feel that participation has to lead to that), and non-sport activities
  • decriminalisation of drugs for amounts consistent with personal use
  • that if you're faced with the inability to choose for whom to vote, think of the most vulnerable person you know and vote based on what's best for them
  • government-built, funded, and supported housing
  • churches need to pay taxes, particularly if they're going to involve themselves in widespread social issues and politics
  • the planting of freely accessible fruit trees
  • a wealth tax on corporate and personal wealth
  • companies compensating people for the time they spend getting to and from work
  • walkable neighbourhoods
  • no-fee public transit

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