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Support students to have an accessible, affordable, and quality education in Canada. As a major economic driver, poverty reduction strategy, ...more »
Support students to have an accessible, affordable, and quality education in Canada. As a major economic driver, poverty reduction strategy, and way of creating healthier citizens, PSE is an investment the federal government cannot afford not to make.
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Don’t you think it’s time Canada developed a national mental health strategy?
We need to address poverty at it's most basic manifestation - affordable housing, or lack thereof. It's a growing problem throughout all segments ...more »
We need to address poverty at it's most basic manifestation - affordable housing, or lack thereof. It's a growing problem throughout all segments of Canada's population in each province and territory that affects every other part of life.
In the wake of global economic uncertainity, now is the time to put housing and poverty strategy back at the top of the priorities. Let's not let anymore of our friends go without such a basic need as a place to lay their head to sleep
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The conservatives have withdrawn support for voluntary non-profit sector organizations. This sector employs some 1.2 million Canadians. What ...more »
The conservatives have withdrawn support for voluntary non-profit sector organizations. This sector employs some 1.2 million Canadians.
What we need are progressive tax policies, incentives for philanthropy, capacity building programs, generous grants and contribution programs and many other mechanisms in order to support the development and growth of this important sector.
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With a decades-long decline in voter turnout & engagement, with Canada ranked below countries like Pakistan & Rwanda in electing of women and ...more »
With a decades-long decline in voter turnout & engagement, with Canada ranked below countries like Pakistan & Rwanda in electing of women and minorities, and with a Prime Minister that gets absolute power with just 39% of the vote, isn't it time to reform our dysfunctional electoral system?
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Lowering taxes for small business and increasing the small business eligibility threshold will encourage small business owners to invest and ...more »
Lowering taxes for small business and increasing the small business eligibility threshold will encourage small business owners to invest and grow. This incentive would encourage the largest sector of our economy to grow, hire more people, train those people and encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs. All that economic stimulus creates long term and lasting tax revenues to fund the important things that good government can accomplish. Health care, education, safety and security are all paid for through a robust economy.
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Reinstitute and renegotiate the National Child Care Program between the federal and provincial governments.
Increasingly seniors have been living in poverty. It’s time this country showed a commitment to Canadians by developing a national pension scheme ...more »
Increasingly seniors have been living in poverty. It’s time this country showed a commitment to Canadians by developing a national pension scheme that will ensure that people can retire with dignity.
There’s an affordable plan to expand benefits from the Canada pension plan and the people eligible:
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/publications/cpp-fact-sheets-labour-s-plan-improved-cpp
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It’s been suggested that there should be discussion about how the federal government is going to show leadership in health care, and not just ...more »
It’s been suggested that there should be discussion about how the federal government is going to show leadership in health care, and not just send money to the individual provinces. While sending enough money to the provinces is important, there are other things that the federal government could do.
What do you think the federal government should do?
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The government has introduced bill c-10 its omnibus crime bill and has limited debate. that also means they have to fill the prisons (if you ...more »
The government has introduced bill c-10 its omnibus crime bill and has limited debate. that also means they have to fill the prisons (if you see what I mean).
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Instituting a free dental care program for all Canadians, following the model of the National Health Service in the UK.
Each year asbestos kills hundreds of people,and Canada still mines it! this is bad and something should be done about it.
Canada needs a northern policy that tackles the challenges of being an Arctic state. We need to foster sustainable development of the Arctic ...more »
Canada needs a northern policy that tackles the challenges of being an Arctic state. We need to foster sustainable development of the Arctic economy- not exploit it for its resources, we need to protect the Arctic environment ensuring that vessels crossing the North West Passage adhere to strict environmental regulations, we need to engage with our Northern citizens and ensure that they have the tools to prosper.
Canada has a responsibility to the Arctic and we need to protect it!
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The Federal Government should lead a discussion with the Provincial, Municipal and First Nations governments, private sector and community aimed ...more »
The Federal Government should lead a discussion with the Provincial, Municipal and First Nations governments, private sector and community aimed at developing new legislation to create an enabling environment for social enterprises.
A social enterprise is defined as a business or organization operated for the purpose of addressing social, economic or environmental challenges. All profits and surpluses are reinvested to support community needs. Banks, credit unions and governments should work together to streamline and upscale financial support for social enterprises. In this partnership, the Provincial and Federal governments should provide loan guarantees and tax incentives for new and existing social enterprises.
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The CPP is a pension plan paid for by your contributions and your employer's contributions. The CPP is a well-managed pension plan, with management ...more »
The CPP is a pension plan paid for by your contributions and your employer's contributions. The CPP is a well-managed pension plan, with management expenses far lower than anything the banks, insurance companies, and mutual fund companies can sell you. The CPP is rock solid according to actuaries, for at least 75 years.
BUT, CPP benefits are too low. The most anyone can collect right now is about $11,000 a year and the average benefit paid out today is about $6,000 a year. We can double future pension payouts, to $22,000 a year, just by paying a little bit more now and putting it away for the future.
Labour's plan to double future CPP benefits can be paid for by increasing what workers currently save through CPP contributions by 0.43% of pensionable earnings each year for the next 7 years. These increased contributions would effectively double the average earnings replaced by CPP pension benefits, to a maximum (in 2010 dollars) of $1,868 per month.
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The gun registry is an important thing!
It stops people that would be dangerous with guns from getting them.
Introduce legislation to prevent foreign acquisition of canadian farmland. There are economic and food security issues. It's also bad from ...more »
Introduce legislation to prevent foreign acquisition of canadian farmland.
There are economic and food security issues.
It's also bad from a canadian value chain perspective.
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Save the wheatboard, or at least let the farmers decide.
The Australians instituted mandatory voting when their voter turnout dropped to a horrifying 70%. Now, it stays around 95%. Here we are, headed ...more »
The Australians instituted mandatory voting when their voter turnout dropped to a horrifying 70%. Now, it stays around 95%. Here we are, headed past 60%, and that only includes registered voters. When you include non-registered people who COULD have been registered, we're almost down to 50% participation. This is very, very bad.
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Communities across Canada are adopting a restorative justice model for addressing youth crime. Based in Native justice practices, the purpose ...more »
Communities across Canada are adopting a restorative justice model for addressing youth crime. Based in Native justice practices, the purpose is to heal the rift between the offender and their community by bringing together all those harmed by the crime and a variety of services that could help. A federal initiative to support this model's wide adoption would help to grow a made-in-Canada approach to youth justice.
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Hydraulic fracturing is a dangerous natural gas extraction technique that involves pumping large volumes of water and chemicals underground at ...more »
Hydraulic fracturing is a dangerous natural gas extraction technique that involves pumping large volumes of water and chemicals underground at pressures high enough to fracture bedrock.
Both the fluid used, and the gas itself pose a great threat to underground aquifers and to the soil. There are many environmental problems associated with this technology; well sites destroy farmland, flow-back water pits leach chemicals into the soil, and condensate tanks release volatile organic compounds directly into the air.
In Quebec, the government tried to force large scale development on the province without conducting a single environmental study. They have since been forced to put the brakes on the industry due to overwhelming public pressure. Hydraulic Fracturing is Canada’s next big environmental disaster. We need strong leadership to stop it now.
Industry is pushing ahead with hydraulic fracturing in Canada at break-neck speed so that Canadians don’t have a chance to realize what is happening. All we need to do is look at what has happened in Texas or Pennsylvania where the industry has enjoyed over a decade of almost completely unrestricted development. Those two states alone drill an average of 15 thousand wells per year.
Canada needs to take concrete steps to stop this industry in it's tracks. We need to act before the country's economy and workforce become dependent on this highly destructive resource extraction technique. There is still time for change. That's why I am suggesting a National Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing.
Let's stand up for common sense, let’s protect the environment and say no to Hydraulic Fracturing now, once and for all, before its too late. We simply cannot afford to take the risk.
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Harper's move to eliminate federal campaign funding is a step in exactly the wrong direction. Private contributions cause public officials to ...more »
Harper's move to eliminate federal campaign funding is a step in exactly the wrong direction. Private contributions cause public officials to feel beholden to their financial backers, and cause elections to become expensive and lacking in substance.
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Expanding public programs is key to shoring up an equal opportunity, middle class society. The false claim of the right that tax cuts make us ...more »
Expanding public programs is key to shoring up an equal opportunity, middle class society.
The false claim of the right that tax cuts make us all better off is open to attack because it is patently wrong. The fact of the matter is that all but the most affluent gain if we raise taxes in a fair way to pay for decent programs and services available to all.
Leaving it mainly to the market (in terms of pensions child care, health care, post secondary education) is fine for the well-off, but squeezes middle class families and shuts out the poor. Tax cuts which mainly go to the most affluent would be better directed to the maintenance and expansion of public services and social programs to which we all gain access as citizens.
These programs make up the core of an equal opportunity society, as opposed to the increasingly unequal society which has been created by relying more and more on the market. The claim of the right that equal opportunity can continue to exist even as income and wealth become more and more unequally distributed is false.
This idea is from Andrew Jackson, as written in his article “How the NDP Can Win”, posted on The Progressive Economics Forum on November 18, 2011.
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2011/11/18/how-the-ndp-can-win/
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Let's not allow the Tories and Liberals to portray socialism as Stalinism. Let's reaffirm commitment to real socialism in 21st century Canada. ...more »
Let's not allow the Tories and Liberals to portray socialism as Stalinism. Let's reaffirm commitment to real socialism in 21st century Canada.
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We've spent billions of dollars on the war and we have not gotten anywhere and we're losing! Why spend more when we will lose? It does not make ...more »
We've spent billions of dollars on the war and we have not gotten anywhere and we're losing! Why spend more when we will lose? It does not make any sense.
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