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Originally Posted by theman23
This policy was never publicly announced and for much of the last few years the Liberals used obfuscation to pretend it didn’t exist (“we’re only letting in 500k immigrants a year”). The ulterior motive is that they’re a corporatist party and beholden to those interests.
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The Liberals have out-conservatived the Conservatives and implemented a neoliberal capitalist policy agenda the likes of which the Cons were never able to. During their now-9 year reign they've managed to:
-Oversee the biggest drop to lower, working & middle class prosperity in modern Canadian history.
-Bring income inequality to record highs.
-Increase the homeless population to record highs.
-Inflate property values to the sky, making the wealthiest segment of society even wealthier and creating a "neo feudalist" economy.
-Suppress wages and workers bargaining power by importing workers faster than we can create jobs.
-Benefit landlords at the expense of renters by raising rents faster than ever and bringing vacancy rates to near-zero.
-Bring record profits to our oligarchs & billionaire class.
-Give a big boost to the private healthcare industry by reducing public health care transfers.
-Give a big boost to the private security industry by overseeing a rise in crime & public disorder, by hobbling the justice system.
And so on. They've just wrapped it in a thin veneer of socially progressive rhetoric to sell it to the public. Gives them the added ability to shut down any criticism of their policies by just calling the critic a racist - the irony of course being that the groups most negatively affected by their work have been immigrants, refugees, people of colour, indigenous people, women, and any other marginalized minority groups. Those who've benefited the most skew older, wealthier, and whiter.
The only "liberal" thing about them is their spending and federal public service bloat. And the problem is that we don't really have a viable left-wing alternative. The NDP, for their part have been enablers to all of this; only meekly offering up the occasional bit of lip-service objection. If we're going to have a neoliberal corporatist party in power, might as well have it be the actual Conservatives - they at least have some semblance of interest in balancing the budget.