BC Political Discussion: Election 2024 & 43rd Parliament

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Originally Posted by chowhou

Have you been living under a rock these past few years? You don't have to be communist to be left wing.

Rents have been close to frozen for the past 3 years (below inflation rent increases are a rent reduction, really).

UNDRIP is legislated.

Horgan's cabinet fought for three years from 2017-2020 to unconstitutionally block interprovincial trade, which was eventually struck down by the supreme court.

The BC NDP implemented a whole slew of new taxes while removing others meaning the top 1% pays more tax than in 2016, while everyone else pays less. This includes the two new highest provincial tax bracket introduced in 2020 along with the elimination of MSP premiums.

And the drug decriminalization happened. Whether they walk it back or not doesn't change the fact that they experimented with it.

Bear in mind, this is all coming from someone planning on voting orange in October!

I think some of this depends on what you see as left/right cause most of those don't strike me as lefty things within the context. Like BC's tax rates are no higher than Ontario's and marginally higher than Quebec so it seems like fairly reasonable taxation to me and not a lefty tax policy.

Drug decriminalisation? Well, that's a left-ish thing to me but not a LEFT thing. Maybe compared to the US but definitely not compared to Europe.

I like Horgan and Eby because they're not your typical left wing folks - they're not like the Federal NDP, they're more like a mix between Federal NDP and Federal Liberals. They are a far cry from the Glen Clark era NDP (Glen notably works for Jim Pattison now so he really wasn't THAT left).