Bill Blair wins Liberal nomination for Scarborough Southwest

Stolen from /u/scouter0's post above:

"Great job cherrypicking examples of how the Liberal's aren't "progressive". Inform yourself of their policies, and then criticize. Your ignorance towards the Liberal's policies is clearly apparent:

  • Cancelling income splitting scheme
  • investments in Canada’s infrastructure (transit, roads, bridges, water treatment, rail, clean energy)*
  • Work closely with the provinces to enhance the Canada Pension Plan*
  • Improve access to affordable, high-quality child care with subsidies*
  • Invest heavily in mental health care, and ensure the front-line responders to mental health issues are care workers, not cops
  • Drop mandatory minimums for nonserious crimes (minor drug offenses, etc)
  • Hold a national meeting with all provinces within 90 days of this year’s UN climate summit – and work with them to set national targets on carbon emissions and pricing.
  • Cancel the Northern Gateway pipeline
  • Promote the XL pipeline if it passes US safety standards
  • Invest heavily in alternative and green energies
  • Reopen closed coastguard stations in Kitsilano and other regions to combat oil spills
  • Reopen closed veteran centres
  • Change access to information laws so all information is government information is open by default
  • Remove all extra fees from Access to Information requests
  • Empower the Information Commissioner to order government data to be released even if they don't want to
  • Make meetings of the secret Board of Internal Economy, which controls the House of Commons budget, public.
  • Get an immediate, full, all-party review of the aging Access to Information Act, and review it again every five years thereafter.
  • Remove laws that require veterans to 'prove' their legs haven't grown back every two years, increase funding for vets mental health and physical health
  • Supporting supervised injection sites, and wanting to expand access to these facilities across Canada.
  • Creating a public safety officer compensation benefit of $300,000 to support the families of firefighters, paramedics or police officers killed or permanently injured in the line of duty.
  • restore the long form census
  • creating an auditor and new regulations for government adverstising
  • additional support for PTSD (part of the first responder package)
  • Legalize, regulate, and tax Cannabis

(EDIT: I also forgot the Canada Child Benefit, Senate Reform, and Trudeau's comittment to working with municipalities across Canada's as well as more funding for municipalities)."

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