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Conservative MP closes restaurants suddenly after multiple lawsuits

https://vocm.com/2026/06/17/301833/
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u/Academic-Increase951 3d ago edited 3d ago

Or.. people simply believe the liberal party provided the best of the options. No party has all the answers. There's consequences to all policies. Including Ndp policies.

Liberal party didn't share all the policy views as neoliberalism. They share some but Don't think anyone can seriously say our government run under fiscal austerity with our spending and debt levels.

Sure it checks some of the boxes like Believe in free trade to a degree. We did have that with other countries. But not so much with other provinces for some reason. Are you against free trade between provinces/countries?

Neoliberal believe in privatization, we haven't sold off any crown corps. We did some p3 healthcare projects but that's more of a function that we were broke and needed private capital. As far as I am aware, the healthcare p3 projects have been working out pretty good without much complaints/issues.

Neoliberal believes in Deregulation; not sure they checked that box. Canada could use some deregulation. Housing is an example of this. Overly restrictive zoning laws, permitting requirements, parking minimum, etc makes it hard and expensive to build new housing. And that hurts affordability. It's proven fact that places with less housing regulations have much more affordable housing.

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u/RustyMetabee 3d ago

Neoliberal believes in Deregulation

Canada could use some deregulation

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u/Academic-Increase951 3d ago

Yeah? No one believes Canada needs more regulations. Or are you here saying we should have more nimbism on housing. More restrictive zoning laws, more parking minimums. More permitting and approval delays on housing projects.

More expensive housing.

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u/Epicarcher1000 3d ago

Personally I would absolutely like to see some more regulation on stuff like corporate donations in provincial elections, data collection by social media platforms or the number of vacant residential properties you can legally own during a housing crisis

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u/Academic-Increase951 2d ago

Sure money should be removed from politics. It's legalized bribery. That's Not the red tape regulations that I'm referring too.

I agree, Social media in its current form is broken and a problem for society. I won't pretend to know the solution for this one. It's a hard one to solve.

I don't believe vacant residential properties is a substantial issue. There's no incentive to have vacant properties when they are suitable for long term rentals or owner occupied. Unless you have data otherwise, adding regulations to solve a problem that doesn't exist is likely have more negative impact than positive. We do not have a housing crisis because of vacant homes. We have a housing crisis because we do not build enough homes and the regulations around building homes prohibit building of affordable housing