thisorthatorwhatever

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[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Greater Toronto Area has become endless sprawl, almost no public transit is being built. We should of had a subway from Huronatioro in Brampton to Markham rd in Scarborough 30 years ago.
The Ontario Line, being built, is a joke and doesn't even cover a fraction of the sprawl that has been created.

By putting many of the factories in the middle of nowhere, with little public transit, politicians ruined much of the Greater Toronto Area.

The stick is on the column, you could still put seat belts on these just like back bench seats currently. Folding armrests as well. These already slide back/forth for the driver to reach the pedals.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Defunding the police and using that money legalize all drugs...is an idealist plan that won't end well. Police reform sure, legalized drugs sure. But some explanation between the two positions needs to be thought through.

About 10% of society is made up of people that are evil, like to pull wings of flies, kick dogs, laugh at handicapped people. The left has no way of dealing with them.

Pennies are now made of zinc.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Progressives are 100% on board with changing the way law enforcement is done

The left can't communicate what it wants law enforcement to be.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

unmanageable levels

We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That's 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.

Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That's like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!

Landlords should be registered in Ontario, and have their places inspected once a year. Any investment property that fails a safety inspection should simply be seized by the government. Stop playing around.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The wages of the extra politicians would be completely insignificant. People can't really seem to comprehend the money governments spend, and on what.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

...neo-liberalism goes away when ridings get smaller. People focus on solving local issues. Currently with such big ridings, anything local and of importance doesn't even get mentioned or solved politically.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

The police forces are controlled by very right wing people, they don't put any energy into causes that they don't like, like loud and reckless driving cars.
It would be good to make the police forces more responsive to the communities they serve, but the left has no interest. Legalize drugs, make they only available through license sellers...and go after the unauthorized seller very very very hard, because those people don't care about you, or making Canada better.

It's also that the riding are too bid at 100,000 people, and should be 30,000 at most. Combine the large riding with FPTP and people in both rural/urban areas don't get the representation that they are looking for and become dissatisfied. We'd have more than 3 parties with smaller ridings, and we'd have to address more local issues.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Riding are too big, imagine if we had riding of 30,000 instead of 100,000. You'd get very local candidates making their way to Parliament, with very local issues to deal with. It would be less polarizing, and help solve local problems.

 

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

 

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

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