New Liberals of British Columbia🌐

Build an abundant British Columbia. Pragmatism, not populism. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #yimby #build

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Gerontocracy illustrated in practice.

[New Liberals of British Columbia🌐 @neoliberalBC]

@Prominent_Bryan He’s comfortable, but his answers remind me of Jeff Winger debating on Community. “They don’t want me to say what I’ll do—they want me to do what I say.”
Can’t address affordability without addressing housing and @EricDLombardi was the only one who addressed it with a plan.

[Build Canada @buildcanada]

Our economy should function as one - not thirteen. 🇨🇦

Protectionist trade rules between our provinces hold back everything from interprovincial liquour sales to trucking.

Handshakes and lip service won't get us to where we need to go. It's time for something stronger. Read from @WaynePommen https://t.co/CpIqzeWjVJ 📰

[Build Canada @buildcanada]

We can and should build beautiful streets just like this in Canada 🇨🇦

[New Liberals of British Columbia🌐 @neoliberalBC]

Two parties parading as one, refusing to accept that the farce is over.
The PC’s can’t stand Pierre, while the reformers will accept nothing less.

[Bryan Breguet @Prominent_Bryan]

Look even the Liberals with the TruAnon cult realized they needed a new leader when every poll started showing them 20 points behind

Is the CPC a serious party that wants to take power or not?

[Kent Fellows @GK_Fellows]

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were called "vicious, extortionate, and obnoxious" by President Hoover (who signed them into law under pressure from his cabinet and congress).

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Idiotic choice that's going to condemn a lot of people to die horribly.

Or, ahem, to just pay directly out of pocket for the tests. So the wealthier will live even longer and better as a matter of Quebec policy. Okay!

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

I have yet to see a good argument against OAS reform.

It mainly seems to be those who are currently benefiting who argue against any change.

They point to anything else, no matter how small or important to cut spending.

Anything but their OAS!

Sad, sad mental gymnastics.

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

Hey Boomer,

Thank your local young worker today.

20¢ of every $1 he or she will pay in taxes goes directly into your bank account.

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

Normalise making boomers thank young workers.

20¢ of every $1 of taxes ($80B per year) goes to OAS—which is not effective means tested.

Boomers still receive OAS making up to $150k in other income annually, and sitting on $1m homes.

No, the boomers did not pay into OAS.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

This kind of journalism, making all First Nations seem like they are a homogenous group against pipelines, has been exposed and criticized for a decade and yet here it rises again.
“First Nations chiefs” in this article actually just refers to the UBCIC. UBCIC does not list who their members are. It is the three people on the executive committee who “call on Carney to halt the pipeline” and much of their work and funding is for activism against fossil fuel expansion.

They are free to advocate and issue letters, but it is irresponsible and misleading for @CanadianPress and @globeandmail to make it seem as though this is a broad or substantiated perspective of “First Nations chiefs in BC”. https://t.co/7paE5tpyRc

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

I ask anyone to justify this.

You can be salty at me for calling out seniors entitlements all you want, but do your best to explain to me why programs designed to support young families are so much more restrictive than those designed for seniors.

It’s generational selfishness.

[New Liberals of British Columbia🌐 @neoliberalBC]

@LRoss65543 Have you ever considered that you’re not cut out to live in a city?
Embrace your banner photo and move to an acreage. Just think, no more towers, no evil developers, no worrying about parking, no more worrying about change.
Vancouver will develop and grow, but you won’t have to

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

As Moffatt subsequently notes, child poverty is over 2x higher than senior poverty.

Our OAS and CCB systems are completely backwards.

OAS largely funds already wealthy seniors with above-median incomes and few expenses.

Investing in our children is investing in the future.

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

Meanwhile, child poverty rates are more than twice what they are for seniors (11.5% vs. 5.4%, respectively).

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

And let's look at that OAS clawback. OAS doesn't get clawed back until *individual* income exceeds $93,000.

Meanwhile, child benefit cheques start to get clawed back when *family* incomes reach $39,000.

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

And OAS expenditures aren't just going up because the population is aging, they're going up because the federal government made the program more generous in 2022.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Incredible

https://t.co/wY3gahl0HW

[Bryan Breguet @Prominent_Bryan]

Absolutely fucking not

Bring back the carbon tax

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

Now here’s a guy who doesn’t understand you can oppose HOW something is funded while still supporting WHAT is being funded.