u/PassThatHammer

You can't build a serious party around the "future" if your views on content and media are still rooted in print.

It's 2026, and video is what what wins hearts and minds. Not just video, but frequently posting content that is engaging and fresh. Look at Zohran Mamdani. He's still producing video, even after taking office months ago.

Video is free to film, free to write, free to edit (for those willing to learn) and free to publish. If your message is compelling, if your copy is well written, you WILL get traction.

Should there be a shuffle on policy priorities? Absolutely. No CFP donor/member is completely satisfied, and truthfully, the overton window continues to shift to the right on a number of issues. But the policies are merely prescriptions to the symptoms voters are feeling in the moment. No one is going to read your prescription if they don't hear or agree with your high-level diagnosis. This is why video is important and press releases are largely ignored.

If anyone is the CFP organization reads these things, I'd urge them to think in terms of short form video content. Don't be afraid to be entertaining. Voice the controversial stances you believe it. Use video to give your followers, people like us donors, the tools to convert others.

Be first to respond to the news. Is a foreign power influencing our elections? What's a 60-second to 2-minute video that outlines why it feels our institutions are fish in a barrel, and what we can do about it?

You have a free, nationwide megaphone in your pocket, use it to make yourself heard as many times a week as it takes. No sitting at a desk. Walk and talk. Imperfect takes are authentic, use them.

Just my 2 cents.

Alberta is right to be angry with equalization. Two decades spent in the oil patch is going to have a very different effect on your body than two decades in a cushy office job. Albertans should keep a much larger percentage of their income than they do.

Also, equalization has done incredible harm to eastern Canada by making these provinces dependent on on transfer payments to pad their bloated budgets. As a result, these provinces have pushed productive workers and businesses out via uncompetitive tax and regulatory policies. Now these once young provinces have fewer private-sector workers than they have retirees. You don't need to have phd in economics to know to that's bad.

Similarly, Quebec/Alberta should have every right to self-determine their own cultures and values without being subjugated to a federal supreme court.

We need a return to the middle way to resolve our problems and find alignment as a nation. The only way to do that is opening the constitution and equalization.

I'd like to see Pierre pushing a "unity through reform" message. I don't believe the old wisdom of "never touch the constitution" still stands. What do you all think?

For reference, Canada has 4x the population of Israel, but CSIS has less than 1/3rd the budget of the Mossad. Obviously, CSIS is very different than other intelligence agencies, and the threats Canada faces are different as well. Is this agency's scope and budget enough to protect it from foreign actors and democratic interference? If not, how would you change it?