smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today to Toronto@lemmy.ca · 3 months agoDemocrat-run citylemmy.todayimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageDemocrat-run citylemmy.todaysmokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today to Toronto@lemmy.ca · 3 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoWell, Mayor Olivia Chow is not a Democrat in the Americian Political sense, even though she was a New Democratic Party MP at one point in time.
minus-squareAnykey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoNot nominally, but she copied “progressive” policies of the US Democrats run cities: tax increases allowing homeless to camp anywhere in the cities housing first approach normalizing hard drugs trade and use And I think the results will be the same as in San Francisco and anywhere else such policies were implemented Changes in Toronto are already pretty obvious
How Is he wrong here?
Well, Mayor Olivia Chow is not a Democrat in the Americian Political sense, even though she was a New Democratic Party MP at one point in time.
Not nominally, but she copied “progressive” policies of the US Democrats run cities:
And I think the results will be the same as in San Francisco and anywhere else such policies were implemented
Changes in Toronto are already pretty obvious