Karl on Parl: CCPA Alternative Budget dares Liberals to think big. Will they?

Karl on Parl writes of the CCPA's Alternative Federal Budget in light of the Liberal's budget coming up.  Will the Liberals take some of their suggestions to heart?

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2016/03/free-tuition-and-...

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/afb2016

Quote:

There was little chance the Harper government would even read what the CCPA had to say, let alone heed any of its recommendations.

Now, with the new-look, self-described progressive Liberals in power, the CCPA can hope someone in government might at least consider its ideas.

In that light, the CCPA has decided to be bold and unflinching in this year's AFB.

It recommends making undergraduate university education free of charge (echoes of Bernie Sanders); including pharmacare, long-term care and home care in Canada's universal health-care system; increasing parental leave and bringing in a national daycare plan; and instituting what it calls a "comprehensive federal poverty reduction plan."

We now have a government that at the very least talks the talk the CCPA has been talking for many years.

On budget day, March 22, we will see how the current group of Liberals, now in power, walk the walk.