John Siciliano

2017-09-06 16:32:36 -0400

Parties evolve over time and the Liberals and Conservatives are nearly identical on economic policy and on social policy they disagree only on small issues. As for fiscal policy, the Liberals did a good job in the 90’s by being pressured by Reform, but I would say the Tories are for cuts and no taxation but the Liberals are for some taxation and cuts only in the most extreme situations. Other than that, Rebel is not being entirely genuine about this because the only party not being entirely honest in the mainstream about free trade are the NDP .



Of course, the Liberals allowed some Conservatives and some New Democrats to be on the panel on free trade and largely the Liberals and Conservatives have agreed on the deal that Trudeau is about to pass.



I, however, feel that trade can occur without these free trade deals whom Harper called the Gold Standard even though he opposes the Gold Standard.



What I find laughable is that Reagan originally was for free trade, globalization and globalism and many Conservatives in Canada started that movement too. They cannot hide from the fact that economists in 1988 during the NAFTA debate said we would lose tens of thousands of jobs were year. They were mocked and ridiculed as anti-globalist lefties at the time, but that gave rise to the Commonwealth party of Canada, the National party of Canada and many anti-globalization parties on the left and centre after that. A bit of history that Rebel easily and never discusses.

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