The Centre Ice Canadians group has been holding conferences, and now the leadership is considering whether to turn it into a political party
Over the past nine months or so the Centre Ice Canadians group has been holding a series of conferences aimed at rehabilitating the centre ground of Canadian politics – deserted territory, many believe, given the present direction of both the Liberal and Conservative parties. Now the organization’s leadership is considering whether to turn it into a political party in its own right. A decision is promised for September.
Or if, as is so often the case, the centre ground is defined as the status quo, a party that mindlessly aims for the centre would not really change much of anything. Some current examples would include ending corporate subsidies; abolishing supply management; opening our remaining protected enclaves in transportation, telecoms and financial services to foreign competition and foreign investment; and increasing defence spending in line with our NATO commitments.
A second category of policies for a centre party would represent a synthesis of left and right, achieving the objectives of the first by the means of the second, and vice versa. Such a party would, for example, seek to combat economic inequality, but without the use of quotas or legislated wages. It would take seriously the concerns of marginalized social groups, dismissed as “woke” on the right, while avoiding the excesses of the left.
More broadly, it would insist that any redistribution of income be achieved openly and transparently, by means of the tax and transfer system, and not by fixing prices or wages; as such, it might be easier to ensure it was redistributed from rich to poor, and not from west to east, or city to country, or young to old, or any of the hundred other ways that governments now stealthily reapportion income.
We have been taught not to expect this, indeed to believe that such minimal standards of behaviour – none of the above requires either a saint or an Einstein – are not just unattainable, but inconceivable. Why? Because that’s all we have ever known? Then perhaps we are ready for something new.
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