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Here in the province of PEI there is already a system called targeted basic income. Shockingly the government in power who implemented it is the Conservative Pa

• VancouverMan 3y ago
  > Shockingly the government in power who implemented it is the Conservative Party. It's not that shocking. Political parties in Canada with the word "Conservative" in their name, and especially the ones with the oxymoronic term "Progressive Conservative", tend to be quite left-wing/socialist in practice. Despite their names, such parties usually favor big and intrusive government, high taxation, high immigration rates, socialist education and health care systems, and other policies that are inherently contradictory with anything resembling conservative ideology. Canada's general lack of truly centrist, conservative, and right-of-centre parties gives the illusion that the least-left-leaning parties are "conservative", when they really aren't. When comparing platforms and policies, the Conservative and Progressive Conservative parties tend to be more similar to those of the far-left Liberal parties, and the even-farther-left NDP and Green parties to some extent, than they are to the platforms and policies of the more centrist People's Party of Canada or New Blue Party of Ontario, for example.