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True Dough

(20,110 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 08:03 PM Aug 14

Canada's newest national party launched Wednesday

Will be interesting to see how much headway they can make. There are a lot of Canadians who don't know who to support these days.

The Canadian Future Party is billing itself as a centrist option for voters unhappy with both the Liberals and Conservatives.

"For too long, Canadians have been asked to play a political shell game," interim leader Dominic Cardy told a press conference in Ottawa. "Under the shell on the left, the social programs you need. But along with it, too often you have to buy bloated government, ever-increasing spending, divorced from delivering results.

"Under the shell on the right, we're supposed to find fiscal discipline. But along with it, too often there's a mean-spirited approach that blames the most vulnerable for their plight, selfishness masquerading as liberty that happily misdirects government resources to the wealthy, and polices our bodies and our bedrooms."

Cardy, a former cabinet minister in New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government and the former leader of the province's New Democratic Party, said the new party is oriented neither to the left nor the right, "but forward."


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-future-party-launches-1.7294230



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Canada's newest national party launched Wednesday (Original Post) True Dough Aug 14 OP
That sounds like a valid critique of the status quo bucolic_frolic Aug 14 #1
There are 6 parties right now. The right will be split by this applegrove Aug 14 #2
Sounds like the "No Labels" party here. FemDemERA Aug 14 #3

bucolic_frolic

(46,817 posts)
1. That sounds like a valid critique of the status quo
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 08:10 PM
Aug 14

2 party systems passing the baton back and forth, sometimes even scratching each others' backs.

applegrove

(123,000 posts)
2. There are 6 parties right now. The right will be split by this
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 08:13 PM
Aug 14

new party and I'm all for that. The left is split 4 ways right now.

FemDemERA

(398 posts)
3. Sounds like the "No Labels" party here.
Wed Aug 14, 2024, 08:30 PM
Aug 14

Maybe I'm too suspicious, but these groups that purport to be independent-centrist always seem to lean right it seems to me.

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