This is the first time in a long time that I have been truly inspired by the position expressed on so many points I care about.

That’s exactly what Lewis represents for so many of us. The ideas of common sense unapologetic democratic socialism is the Canadian mainstream. We have been holding out noses for so long it’s surprising to remember what clean air smells like.

I think Tenille shone very brightly throughout the race. She’s definitely a rising star in the NDP for all the right reasons. I’m so glad she and Avi were sitting together and she was the first on the stage with him.

Let’s goooo

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility.

It denies that right to thousands of people who already legally made a claim. Their human right to seek asylum is being denied.

How would you like it if you had taken all the legal steps to apply for asylum and then a government comes and retroactively decided that, “no, your application never even happened, fuck you”?

And then, let’s be clear. Even if 80% (a percentage I pulled out of my ass to look “high”, it could well be much less than that) of the 19,000 applications that are likely to be impacted were going to be rejected anyway, that means that 20% of them are legitimate cases. That would be 3800 people who are genuine refugees for whom Canada will just trample over their legitimate right to asylum. The MS St Louis that Canada famously forbade from unloading Jewish refugees fleeing from the fucking Holocaust had about 900 passengers, about 200 of whom ended up in gas chambers. Those 900 people are a stain in Canada’s history. And now we are just cancelling the applications, without any recourse, of many times over their number. We should have learned the lesson of MS St Louis.

Gee if only there was a way to tell who is seeking asylum for good reasons and who isn’t. Maybe some kind of process where you can apply and then the government can examine the application on its merits and make a decision? Oh wait.

“People” were not blaming immigrants, the right wing propaganda machine was. Immigrants pay taxes, start businesses, innovate and create wealth. The anti-immigration rhetoric risks making Canada a right wing shithole country like the US.

Bullshit. The government is wasting millions on defense, on oil and gas tax exemptions and subsidies, and on a whole host of other wasteful and pointless programs to benefit the capitalist class. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right under article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If claims have gone up, 10 times, hire and train more staff to handle them. There are communities in the Maritimes with staggering levels of unemployment, and the Trump tarifs are making us shed jobs. So the government could at the same time uphold Canada’s moral standing AND give employment to Canadians.

Shameful. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Canada has voted for and signed. This supposed centrist government is literally trampling on the fundamental human rights and on Canada’s own treaty obligations.

Shame shame shame shame on the minority Liberal government for proposing it and for any party that enables them to pass it.

I don’t care if Iran wins. I just want the US MAGAs and the Israeli fascists to lose this shit they started at this point. Their noses need to be rubbed on their shit until they learn their lesson.

Hey Israelis, if you don’t want wars to escalate, don’t start wars.

Sounds like we need to tax shits like this out of political influence.

A waste of resources.

Regressives keep focusing on what’s really important in this day and age.

May your knife chip and shatter.

Isolate, boycott, divest and sanction this genocidal apartheid regime.

Tired of Americans making everything about scoring points in their internal politics.

This is ethno-nationalism.

That a wild thing to say that crosses into Holocaust Denial territory.

I understood your text as saying that we should flood the areas close to transit with studio apartments. If that’s the type of accomodation that’s mostly available close to transit that would make it so that families (who tend to need multiple bedroom apartments) would not have enough options close to transit.