BC also. People support it because they want to fix the problem, and by fix the problem I mean “make it not visible to me anymore because I can’t go downtown without having to walk near the untouchables and it’s a nuisance”.

(I don’t personally think forced treatment is the solution, but am just reiterating sentiments I have heard)

Lol the NDP only won by like 20 votes this election so not as progressive as you’d think. Also our NDP is still center left so not that progressive at all.

Accessible abortion rights will almost certainly be back on the chopping block next election.

I don’t think we’ll have it nearly as bad as America because our political system works a bit differently but the conservative leader/party definitely have the hallmarks of trumpism with white nationalism, climate change denying, anti-women and anti-trans issues. They’re going to play the same “we’re better for the economy” game as well.

Canada won’t go around calling out other people’s genocide when it can’t even recognize its own. Not in their (the govs) best interests.

Maybe if the doctors flee America when their health care system is destroyed they’ll come back to Canada and we can have some GPs, as a treat.

Thank you very much for this summary. Sadly I do feel some sort of understanding to a lot of Trump voters that genuinely thought they were making a good decision, and I think your summary reflects why people would feel that way. I 100% disagree with them, but I can understand their frustration and do see a lot of that reflected in Canadian politics as well.

I’m curious about the comment on Singh. As long as I’ve been following/supporting the NDP, I’ve always felt like they were more working class and really haven’t seen a whole lot of identity politics in their expressions. With the exception of maybe racism stuff, but I feel like given Jagmeet’s own (obvious) identity, this would be a central issue to him as a leader and to them as a party. I have seen them express in interviews about concerns for the working class many times otherwise.

PP and federal conservatives have already expressed anti trans sentiment so I won’t be surprised if it gets introduced into federal politics as well next election. We barely scraped by in BC to avoid the transphobic pos conservative leader this time around. I’m getting ready to fight.

Oh, also both major parties in BC wanted involuntary placement so that’s also well underway here too. Gotta love that :/

One thing that has helped me the teensiest bit is that even though he got the popular vote, he still got less votes than he did in 2020. It doesn’t help me to know that so many people were blatantly apathetic or misogynistic or whatever we’re blaming the lack of democratic votes on, but at least he got less votes than before.