This is the main argument that pro-CPC folks have been telling me to vote for CPC instead of PPC. They say Max made the mistake of starting his own party. They argue that if he waited it out he could have been the leader of the CPC this time around. Is Trump running as a Republican a good comparison to this?
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This is how Bernie(r) still can win.
Oh, and Max wouldn't have won against Trudeau in my opinion. He might have gotten better results in Quebec, but would have suppressed Con voters anywhere else. His anti supply management stance isn't really popular here in the Prairies. And his thick French accent is just a no go.
Supply management was enacted in 1972 here in Canada. It's running now for 48 years without causing a holodomor.
Go and ask a farmer if they want to get rid of supply management. 99% of them will tell you to fuck off. They know that if supply management goes away, then they will have to compete with cheap imports from the US. And the only way the can compete with these cheap imports form the US is if they sell below cost. And then we are going to run the same scam as the US, which is handing out billions and billions every year to farmers so that they produce food below cost.
You can kill supply management and keep steep tariffs on US imports though.
And then we're at square one. Kill supply management to lower grocery prices, increase tariffs so that cheap imports are kept out, grocery prices as high as before.