Government-controlled protectionism is supposed to be good - and in a functioning democracy should benefit the people over businesses all of the time. The problem we have is far-(self)-righteous parties whose members only care about themselves and those who pad their pockets with bribes and "donations".

"Increasing competition" without lowering prices is meaningless.

Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics. The effect of increasing competition in a heavily monopolized industry is to lower prices.

Edit: I slightly misread the quoted text. I had assumed that "increasing competition" meant breaking up Canadian monopolies, not opening the floodgates to other markets. I'm really surprised that a party called "Canada future" is against protectionism. I still stand by my point here, but I see where you're coming from.

Increasing competition adds downward pressure on prices and forces our domestic oligopolies to compete.

That's how markets work.

There's value in promoting a strong local industry, but when that industry fails to compete that's a market failure. The smaller the market the more likely it is to fail.

That is something that will be forgotten as soon as they have power because it undermines their stakeholder's interests.

I don't think anyone has looked at the NDPs platform recently. Unfortunately I don't think people will without a change in leader.

I didn't like it last election, I didn't look until recently and it does have a lot of notes I want to push for.

Everyone should know about the Overton Window

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse.

... basically the idea that political ideas and discourse can be subtly moved from one position to another over time ... the danger being that people can be influenced or convinced to move to ever more extreme ideas and policies.

What is so wrong with that though?

To me a party that says they're going to look at the options objectively and pick the best from each side is appealing.

For the most part Canada is pretty great, there are a lot of things that I don't think need radical changes. Of course I do want radical changes where needed (say fixes to our healthcare, disability systems, etc).

I would be more than happy if the two major federal parties were CF and the NDP, representing between them what the majority of Canadians actually want. Greens would be a good centrist party if they could keep enough strong leaders in the party.

What Conservatives and Liberals know how to do is sell themselves. Actually governing has become secondary.

I'm mostly a liberal voter but I might throw my vote their way as a protest vote.

The LPC isn't taking the actions I want, I actually do like the NDP's platform but I think they need a massive shakeup, they're not marketing themselves right, and the CPC right now is so far beyond anyone I could remotely support.

I'll see what their platform really looks like come election time, and if they run a good candidate I'll give them a vote.

They're starting with bielections which are safe protest votes.

People know their vote won't change things so there is very little consequence for a protest vote, and in that light I think they might do fairly well.

It can only help the Cons.

To the detriment of the entire country.

Not that I'm especially a fan of the liberals, but Polierve's conservatives promise to be much worse than anything Trudeau and the liberals have done.

At least the current polling it would be hard for the liberals to lose harder.

They're set to lose around 100 seats, and the conservatives are set for the largest majority government in almost 40 years.

The NDP aren't forecast to gain any seats.

So maybe it is time for another party to take a swing.

ETA: I don't even think the NDP platform is bad, but their messaging is not getting through and frankly I think people are as tired of Singh as they are Trudeau.

If they don't willingly change they deserve a shakeup.

If only a federal political party with electoral victory within their reach had promised a meaningful reform to the first past the post system. Around 2015. That would have really been timely, and materially improved the Canadian political space.

Demonstrating the absolute uselessness of voting in Canada. Any vote that isn't in direct opposition the party you don't want is for them.