LogFAQs > #927698202

- Foreign policy - focusing on Canada - Meaningless sloganeering. All parties focus on Canada. And if Donald Trump's disastrous "America First" policies have taught us anything, it's that behaving like a self-centred asshole on the world stage is a great way to torpedo treaties and lucrative trade deals like the TPP, but isn't so helpful for getting new ones signed (the USMCA appears dead in the water, Trump's attempts to bully China into submission are biting his own economy, and he's left sitting on the outside looking in at the Pacific Trade deal, even as he attempts to negotiate the exact same benefits he walked away from that Obama successfully secured).

- Rejecting alarmism with global warming - removing the useless carbon tax that gets a tax on top of it. - Global warming is probably the most significant threat to the planet today and Bernier is an idiot for trying to stand in the way of ways to fix it (nevermind dubbing legitimate concern about it as "alarmism"). Study after study shows that carbon taxes are one of the most efficient, cost-effective ways to fight global warming. I get that nobody likes paying taxes, but in terms of all the taxes we have to pay this one is actually one of the most sensible.

- Making dairy products more affordable - cheese costs way too much in Canada. Because cheese is definitely a hot-button issue that will drive out the voters. This one isn't dumb, but it is pointless and probably not very smart politically, because it's going to piss off dairy farmers and literally no one else will care.

- Removing interprovincial trade barriers - one of Bernier's rare good ideas. That said, he's probably overstepping his bounds here. Interprovincial trade is something that mostly rests in provincial jurisdiction.

- Give provinces incentives to deal with long wait times for healthcare - as above. Good idea, but not really something the feds have many tools to implement.

- Respecting legal firearms owners and targeting criminals - Yes, because if there's one thing Canada (7th most guns per capita in the world) needs, it's more guns. This was dumb when the Harper Conservatives were bitching about it, it remains dumb now. Canada's regulatory regime is fine - if anything, it's probably a little too loose.

- Fairness in equalization payments - this is long overdue. Quebec doesnt need $3.5B dollars per year generated from our oil while rejecting a pipeline to transfer it there and accepting oil from Saudi Arabia. - Best of luck with the confederation crisis that would emerge from this one. Given the shitshows that were the Charlottetown and Meech Lake accords, it'd actually be really entertaining - in a morbid, "Oh God, they actually thought this was a good idea" kind of way - to see how this one would go down.
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