I'd posit that a point you're missing under "We need" is "to tax the rich more to pay for the services and supports needed to manage the number of immigrants we plan to build.
You're right about immigration, but the problem, like anything our governments (LPC or CPC) do is that they'll do half the solution; the easy, cheap part (immigration, decriminalizing drugs, setting healthcare and education standards) but not the hard and expensive part (building infrastructure, providing treatment and housing-first at scale, actually spending money on teachers, doctors and/or nurses), and the reason they do the cheap part is they're ideologically unable to ask the rich to make do with less.
Remember the red line on Russia with regard to the first invasion of Crimea? Or Syria even earlier?
Obama, and now Biden, actually embolden autocrata with spineless moves like these. Netanyahu's going to keep pushing because, line a toddler, he's not sure where the actual "red line" really is.
We're going to get fascism back purely because the neoliberal idea of fucking over everyone for the greater glory of the wealthy, while strip-mining brown people for every bit of value apparently has consequences.
Imagine how nice the world would be if we could have convinced the wealthy to make do with less?
Oh no, not the capital investment! Anything but that!
For the record, the oil industry's global profits were $4T. Not revenue, profit. $75B in investment sounds like a lot, until you realize all it means is that they'll need to dig into that $4T to fund stuff, and that $75B is less than two percent of $4T, and the actual hit to revenue and income will be even less.
I mean, Windows 98's "Active Desktop" was pretty much this.
Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they're sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we'll finally accept it.
When people like Ron De Santis talks a "war against woke!", he's talking about a war on things that make privileged people uncomfortable and poor people pissed off.
They know that if more "woke" gets out there, it'll result in the rich potentially having to share.
It was never left or right, it's about power and money.
The Palestine protests threaten the wealthy but things like LGBTQ rights don't. The former could be a flashpoint for general anti-capitalist action, while the latter has essentially been subsumed into mainstream neoliberalism ans is, at best, a great way to distract and redirect from class issues to culture war bullshit.
The rich are happy to have us fighting culture wars instead of class wars. That's why they're pushing the "antisemitism" narrative because it keeps people's eyes off of the real issue.
The LPC (and the CPC) quite like the current setup where they can get a majority with 30ish percent of the vote. This means they get exclusive access to the levers of power every four to eight years and have to trade off periodically, which suits them fine.
PR would mean they'd never get another majority again. It's also mean that the NDP, BQ and/or Greens could get real political power and drive legislation without their involvement, and since the Canadian electorate is generally more left wing that. It's politicians, that would mean more progressive and less business-friendly legislation.
The LPC would be effectively shut out of power as they know it, and their donors would be dealing with a Canada that looks and acts more like western Europe.
The LPC would rather FPTP, where they'd lose an election or two on knowing they'd eventually get a chance again, then see PR where they'd be shut out forever.
For the record, the CPC would have it even worse. They'd instantly lose their protofascist base to extreme right-wing and/or western nationalist parties. There's very little ideological room between the LPC and CPC if you take away the latter's playing footsie with fascism.
Biden doesn't really have a good path either way, and Netanyahu knows it.
If he goes too easy on Bibi, he loses support and Netanyahu gets Trump, which is great for Netanyahu. If Biden goes too hard on him, the same thing happens. It makes sense when we realize that Netanyahu's goal is to get Trump I'm office so that both he and Trump can stay out of prison.
What Biden is doing is probably the least bad option, and if he wins Netanyahu's toast.
The problem is one of distribution: too much money on one side, too little on the other. Government has some great tools to fix that, but curiously doesn't use them.
I know it seems weird to think about this now, but back when Mandela was being released, the conservative establishment was calling him a terrorist and insisting that we still needed to support the apartheid government In South Africa against terrorist communists like Mandela.
Reagan and Thatcher were both quite explicit about it.
So this really is nothing new. The Right is always going to back the powerful against the powerless, and will always come down hard on any person or group that challenges the "natural order".
No, they just love money, and the idea of public money going direct to public workers and students without someone making a buck off it horrifies them.
Conservatives have had a thing about public education and healthcare for decades and they're so close now they can just taste it.
Now I'm wondering about hummingbirds.