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Everyone should like ranked ballots for themself. It lets you have more say.

The only reason to oppose them is you don’t want other people to have this.

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I did a lot of shuffling up and down before finally settling. It’s not easy with such strong candidates.

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By definition, progressive taxes require bracketing – the rate increases for the wealthy. So consumption taxes like the GST are considered flat taxes – not progressive. (Sounds like you've been smoking some Fraser Institute sticky icky.)

The carbon tax is also progressive? It could be – if it targeted high carbon intensity activities like private jets – but at present, it is not.

https://theconversation.com/the-carbon-tax-needs-fixing-not-axing-canada-needs-a-progressive-carbon-tax-244017

To this argument, I would add that a consumer carbon tax cannot function as a "steering tax" (to motivate behaviourial change as it can in Nordic countries) in a driver supremacist society like Canada because there's no safe or convenient alternative to driving for the majority. Canada's emissions crisis is also a mobility justice crisis.

You know what was an actual progressive tax? The NDP-Liberal capital gains tax adjustment, which was micro-targeted at the 1% (who shift compensation from salary to shares explicitly to dodge taxes). The one that Carney and Freeland have promised to cancel for ideological reasons (kneeling before Bay Street and the broligarch wannabes, who Carney calls "builders"). That's what Gould should have focused on.

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/capital-gains-reform/

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I think I've either of your top two performers win the nomination then conservatives win a majority. Good article and appreciate your take and your content.

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Need to hear more about Frank Baylis.

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I didn’t see these debates. It is great to hear that there is someone who has a podium and is willing to take a stand against the genocide. A genocide that the world has been witnessing and Canada has been denying. I am not a Liberal and never have been. Thanks.

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