You can force parliament to pass one piece of legislation right now. What do you make them pass? (vargar.org)

submitted 3 days ago by wraekscadu@vargar.org to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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I have quite a few creative ideas, but am too tired to write them down rn. I'll go the easy, lazy way (and write about more legislation ideas tomorrow):

Proportional representation like Germany. In every election, the voter votes for an individual and a party. The individual is chosen to represent the riding through STAR voting (my version). After all MPs are elected, to ensure proportional representation according to the party votes (the second vote that voters cast), individuals from party lists are put into parliament.

This way, we get riding representation and party representation.

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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My argument for UBI as one of the most important policy choices we can possibly make is that it not only achieves a huge amount of harm reduction, but it also opens up a huge amount of political power. With UBI, losing your job becomes much less scary. If that threat diminishes, people become far more willing to engage in activities like protests, unionizing, and general strikes.

My overall priorities would be;

Voting reform
UBI
Wealth tax
Free post-secondary education
Head to toe healthcare
End private home renting
Crown corp telecoms
Public transit

(In no particular order)

But of those I consider voting reform and UBI to be the ones that unlock the most political power among regular working people, which makes it easier to make everything else happen.

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You're not wrong, and maybe I'm splitting hairs here... But I'm from Brazil and we while had very good results with Bolsa Família - really really good results, made history lifting millions of people out of poverty - we learned in practice that while the effects of inequality are most tragic among the poor, the real inequality happens between between the 99% and the 1%; and then again between the 1% and the 0.1%. While the wealth transfer has been successful, just like gas tax cuts the political capital generated is very feeble and easily coopted by following administrations.

I know that Bolsa Família it's not the same as UBI, but it turns out that the political power unlocked lasted less than two decades. The elites will find ways to erode it eventually, if allowed to amass power to do so.

But anyway, yes I love your list, and would vote for anyone that got any permutation shuffle of this agenda.