What the Conservatives are doing to make Canada a shitty place to live

[shadowsworn]

new criminal legislation is being introduced.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...bus-crime.html

... increasing the maximum penalty for possession and production of drugs such as marijuana from seven to 14 years, factoring in security, health and safety concerns arising from marijuana grow-ops....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity...ada-safer.html

...Compel internet service providers to hand over email and other internet usage data without a search warrant, even if no formal investigation is underway...

...the price... is expected to be in the tens of billions of dollars...

also they tried to shut down Insite in Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...-advancer.html

and

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...od-110923.html

^ this is part of an ongoing thing where a Conservative MP told his supporters that the government had cut funding to a pro-choice organization, despite the fact that that wasn't true.

edit: to clarify, this is about the federal conservatives, not those at the provincial level, though I think they're just as bad if not worse, especially in Ontario. oh, and **** Mayor Rob Ford too.

[Dot_Hack]

new criminal legislation is being introduced.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...bus-crime.html



http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity...ada-safer.html





also they tried to shut down Insite in Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...-advancer.html

and

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...od-110923.html

^ this is part of an ongoing thing where a Conservative MP told his supporters that the government had cut funding to a pro-choice organization, despite the fact that that wasn't true.

edit: to clarify, this is about the federal conservatives, not those at the provincial level, though I think they're just as bad if not worse, especially in Ontario. oh, and **** Mayor Rob Ford too.

I think one of the main problems (at least in the U.S.) is the fact that the difference in generations (Generation X and Generation Y/Z) is so substantial due to technology that even conservatives from this generation (Gen. Z) dont agree with the conservatives of Gen. X.

What I'm saying is that, the reason this stuff sucks is because these older people are making laws that typically only effect us (the younger generations), but they're basing the laws on their classic beliefs.

For example, I dont think anyone from our generation would have voted for the internet cap law because we know how important the internet is in our lives.

TL;DR: Old people suck.

*This is all based on my thoughts. No real evidence to support this.

Anyway, on topic, I think they're making a pointless law (and I dont even smoke weed) mainly because of the huge costs associated with it.

[shadowsworn]

also,

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/edito...oad-off-cities

an excerpt:

"It seemed like a simple question that was being asked of all political parties. Do you support the completion of the $1.5 billion provincial uploading project that was started in 2008? Both Premier Dalton McGuinty and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath were very clear in their support of fully honouring the agreement. Conservative Leader Tim Hudak stopped short, saying, “The billion dollars that has been taken up to the provincial level to date, we will honour that.” When pressed again, he refused to commit to honouring the signed agreement."

"uploading", btw, in this case means basically that the provincial government takes on costs that were previously being paid by municipal governments.

it should be noted that during the 90s, the Mike Harris government downloaded a massive (ruinous, actually, imo) amount of costs onto municipal governments in Ontario, in addition to savagely slashing funding for social programs and infrastructure.

[Raiyne]

**** conservatives.

[Proxzor]

tltr, did they put milk in bags? <3

[xBlazex]

tltr, did they put milk in bags? <3

<,< there milk in bag in wisconsin kwik trip

[djfizzle]

soon Americans wont have a sane place to escape to....

[shadowsworn]

vaguely relevant:

"…if political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s to make the Conservative party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language.”

- Stewart Lee

edit:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...erview654.html

[Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader] Hudak endorsed Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's plan to scrap the Transit City light rail plan.

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btw, this is the same Mayor Rob Ford who said he wasn't going to go to Pride (despite the fact that mayors and other politicians, including Jack Layton (RIP) and his wife, fellow MP Olivia Chow, had been going to Pride to show support for it for mm, probably around two decades now) because he had to spend time at his cottage.

also, he's been seen more than once using a cell phone while driving, which is of course against the law. you can bet that he has basically never had to use public transit in his life.