Canadian Politics Thread

i haven't followed the assisted dying bill's journey at all. most of my attention when it comes to can pol news has been focused on ridiculousness of vancouver's and toronto's housing market.

I feel like im burned out on the housing market stuff living here in Vancouver as it justs dominates so much airtime and column inches. I know I will never be able to afford to buy here, luckily for me im not from here, nor do I want to live here long-term. I do feel awful for the people that I meet who grew up in Vancouver and can't hope to remain in the city if they want to be a homeowner.

Also obv there's homelessness crisis, which is just getting worse, and the affordability of renting, which isn't exactly great either (tho tbh the rent prices while steep are not as exorbitant/crazy as prices of buying real estate) and these things are not unrelated to the housing market. also the sheer amount of poor people on assistance who have the most abominable housing (rat and bedbug infested SRO rooms for $450 pcm)and pay half their monthly welfare check :/ but no level of government is going to do anything about that, as that would involve building livable social housing (and I guess the crazy real estate prices don't help in securing land for such housing).

I have real misgivings about any policy (including the current status quo) that allows assisted suicide for some people but not others, on the grounds of disability.

STV is probably my preferred voting system but I think people are realising (as we did years ago on this thread) that reforming the electoral system might likely require a constitutional amendment.

Time for a new thread? There are over 2000 posts on this one.

Makes sense. New(ish) government, new thread.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-now-the-second-biggest-arms-exporter-to-middle-east-data-show/article30459788/

utterly disgusted by this

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