you might have expected this from the conservatives.

instead, they tried to set up a massive welfare system to give every kid this, at massive unsustainable taxpayer cost:

Municipal data confirm the negative effects of federal discrimination against the child care sector.

corporate daycares want a dei program?

of all the oppressed and marginalized groups in society, for profit childcare providers are the least of my concerns. the subsidy system that harper brought in was the most inefficient, market-breaking thing imaginable, making daycare providers wards of the state with federal contracts that looked like lockheed martin deals. it was crazy. i'm not a fiscal conservative, but childcare is a basic service, and it can't have this unsustainable model attached to it.

the simple reality is that if people actually wanted to pay for expensive childcare spots then the providers that skipped out of the subsidy system wouldn't be going bankrupt. they are failing due to lack of demand; they say so themselves. the market is speaking, and it's choosing the cheapest spaces possible and driving the expensive ones out of the market. in response, big daycare wants government to step in and hand out higher corporate subsidies to stop their business model from failing. 

it looks like hypocrisy, but it's actually normal. this is how markets actually function in real life - they fail without government regulation.

the system that the liberals brought in was less inefficient than the system it is trying to replace, but it's still extremely wasteful. as people clearly want the cheapest daycare options possble, the government should listen to them and start looking at bringing back the dryden plan.

in the longrun, what we want is government run ece centres at cost, not expensive private nannies, subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/matthew-lau-poilievres-sensible-solution-to-liberal-daycare-nightmare

mulcair is wrong on it's face.

however, canadians are not going to vote for jagmeet singh because he looks like a clown, and they're entirely correct to reject him strictly on the basis of his absurd appearance and his goofy religious views. the ndp made a severe error electing him leader of the party. 

canada will never have a sikh pm, and that's a good thing. it would be a tremendous step backwards to elect this guy or anybody that looks like him or believes the things he believes pm. there is nothing progressive or forward thinking about making space for silly belief systems and unsanitary cultural practices.

he has no chance.

he should resign tomorrow and endorse the liberals.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/former-ndp-leader-tom-mulcair-tells-canadians-not-to-vote-ndp

what it's demonstrating is that youngish canadians (this applies more to gen x than millenials, from what i can see and isn't that new) have a very poor understanding of economics due to an insufficient level of education in the topic.

young canadians are correct to identify problems in distributive justice with the neo-liberal status quo, but they are demonstrating incredible ignorance in voting for more of that status quo in order to solve the problem.

polievre's policies will make every problem he identifies, most of which are real, a thousand times worse.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/boomer-millennial-divide-defining-the-canadian-election

only canada would be stupid enough to try to align with the french on the brink of a global conflict. we know what will happen to france in five minutes, right?

but, smart americans have always known that the germans are no ally. there's no surprise in seeing europe bolt for china on the earliest opportunity.

canada's cold war policy was to stay out of the dirty fighting. we need to retreat back to the pearson-trudeau-chretien position that was consciously and very foolishly (as we see now) aggressively reversed by the previous government.

canada should not be given the opportunity to choose between a europe-china alliance and us-russia alliance.

the american occupation of europe must be enforced, with violence if required, to prevent them from revolting against washington.

european insolence will need to have a price, if it comes to it.

canada cannot make the mistake of expecting otherwise.