Pierre Poilievre defeats Jean Charest to become next CPC leader

Nobody mentioned direct democracy. In order to get reelected, politicians generally have to make their constituents happy, and therefore need to act in ways that they would approve of, right? That's my understanding of how representative democracies work.

Canada's tax to gdp percentage is still in the bottom third in the G20, so there's probably SOME slack to increase taxes, especially with inflation running as high as it is.

And I'm not saying every NDP policy is realistic because I don't abstain from voting if there are no parties that align with my ideas 100%, you just asked me if I want action on climate change. You're complaining about me being reasonable when I'm not sure what you're even suggesting we DO except some vague eco-authoritarian regime under some unknown leader who will get their mandate from God knows where.

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