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Even as someone who doesn't think highly of this admin or mo'jones, plastics are the crack cocaine of manufacturing, and of all the empty gestures this governme

Even as someone who doesn't think highly of this admin or mo'jones, plastics are the crack cocaine of manufacturing, and of all the empty gestures this government has made, this is probably the most useful thing they could do. It's regressive in the sense that it will cause a hedonic hit to people who buy cheap things for comfort, but the majority of plastics begin and end their lives as disposable garbage. Let's just say when you clean up a park, creek, lake, or a beach, you don't end up with a collection of champagne bottles and caviar tins - it's all fast food bottles and containers. The next one would be concrete and laws about disposing of contaminated fill, because that's the huge environmental horror afflicting rural areas that is a direct result of a real estate bubble manufactured by their other policies, but it's a start.

cmrdporcupine 5y ago
The problem with these kinds of things from this particular gov't is that they are spoken about and press releases are issued.... but they never actually happen. Electoral reform, indigenous reconciliation (or even just clean water for reserves), CO2 reductions, you name it... Ok, we did get cannabis legalization.
- ornornor 5y ago
  > cannabis legalization. Because there was so. much. money. in it. Both from tax revenue and from reduction in policing costs.
  - cmrdporcupine 5y ago
    Honestly, it's what got them elected. I met lots of people who were going to vote NDP (many of my friends, coworkers) -- or not vote at all (trades people who were working on my house, people I talked to online etc.) -- who got out and voted Liberal because of this issue alone. It's been a few years now and the world hasn't ended and it doesn't feel like cannabis consumption is any higher really. It was probably good policy to do it. While the NDP (who were ahead of the Liberals in the polls at the beginning of that election and actually in majority territory) have always had legalization as policy, I bet you that Mulcair wouldn't have had the political confidence or buy-in from the provinces to get it through like Trudeau did.

cmrdporcupine 5y ago

The problem with these kinds of things from this particular gov't is that they are spoken about and press releases are issued.... but they never actually happen. Electoral reform, indigenous reconciliation (or even just clean water for reserves), CO2 reductions, you name it... Ok, we did get cannabis legalization.

ornornor 5y ago
> cannabis legalization. Because there was so. much. money. in it. Both from tax revenue and from reduction in policing costs.
- cmrdporcupine 5y ago
  Honestly, it's what got them elected. I met lots of people who were going to vote NDP (many of my friends, coworkers) -- or not vote at all (trades people who were working on my house, people I talked to online etc.) -- who got out and voted Liberal because of this issue alone. It's been a few years now and the world hasn't ended and it doesn't feel like cannabis consumption is any higher really. It was probably good policy to do it. While the NDP (who were ahead of the Liberals in the polls at the beginning of that election and actually in majority territory) have always had legalization as policy, I bet you that Mulcair wouldn't have had the political confidence or buy-in from the provinces to get it through like Trudeau did.