Atlantic Canadian Politics Thread

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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

And what a dismal bucket that is. If Holt and the Liberals are smart, they will shift their campaign focus towards solutions and promises to build more housing.

Affordable rental housing, transitional housing, and homeless shelters need to be better funded than they have been under the Higgs PCs, and they can make this the hallmark of their critique of the currently inadequate response from the PCs to the housing crisis and homelessness epidemic. That should be their focus, not harm reduction strategies and allowing sanctioned tent cities to pop up.

FDR effectively used “Hoovervilles” against Hoover and won the 1932 in landslide. Holt should be trying to do the same thing, blaming these tents cities on Higgs and promising to support better solutions to build our way out of this crisis.

Enabling people clearly isn’t the way to win on this issue, though, I don’t exactly think harm reduction and tent cities are cornerstones of the Liberal platform. For such a hot button topic, none of the major parties have really said much on the issue of homelessness, addiction, and the associated rise in crime. It really shouldn’t be that hard for Holt and the Liberals to lay the blame squarely on Higgs for these issues… they’ve been in power nearly 6 years now, and the situation has gotten progressively worse.

Harm reduction is in a liberal camp. Hickey is all in, and so is Holt. I lost count how many times she referred or met with river stone doctor. The same one placing transitional housing next to George street middle school.