The NDP already represent a lot of what the majority of Canadians want, but fearmongering about sOciALiSm, and the party having to move more towards the center to try and meet the Liberals halfway has diluted their brand.
The people who would never vote for them anyways think that they're too far left, and the people who used to support them see them as too-eager-to-please to the current Liberal government.
If you could magically snap away people's preconcieved notions and team mentality towards politics, and had them read party policies carte blanche, I think a large portion of Canadians would go NDP, especially if they went back to their traditional policies and mindset.
This is why the CPC are so vocal about alleged Chinese election interference instead of foreign interference in general. The vast, VAST majority of foreign political influence is pro-conservative and serves to undermine anything progressive.
Better to play the long game. Keep them at your place as long as possible. Pretend like you are interested, fein your support, but you need a little more convincing.
The more time of theirs you can waste on a non vote, the less time they have to do anything else.
Might be different in places like the praries, but where I am, the humidity can add another 5°C-10°C on those sweltering hot days.
And its not necessarily being by a big body of water that is a factor in humidex values. In fact, being by a big body of water tends to have a moderating effect on the weather.
So, yeah, it's not the cost of having kids that turns people off from having them. The study that the article is based on even says this!
...Are you high? The article literally states that a third of young canadians are doing just that.
In a survey published last month, the agency found that more than a third of young Canadians were setting aside plans for a family due purely to financial reasons. Of Canadians in their 20s, Statistics Canada found that 38 per cent of them “did not believe they could afford to have a child in the next three years”
I can attest from personal experience, finances are 100% the reason me and my partner can't have kids right now. Its very hard to justify brining a kid into this world when its hard to maintain stability for 2 adults, let alone with the costs required to raise a child.
We were evicted from our last home for no other reason than the greed of our landlord. That stress would have been tenfold if we had to go through that with kids.
Last line of the article: "Just like choosing not to ride on airplanes isn’t really an option, for many, using social media isn’t much of a choice either."
That, and not only is not riding on an airplans an option for a lot of people, its their reality for a lot of people and out of reach financially. Way to be completely out of touch, Gizmodo. Couldn't have used a worse example lol.
Don't even get me started on transmissions.