1. Electoral reform, at all levels. Start with municipal governments by offering tax dollars to help with the transition and to educate citizens. Once a municipality has successfully held their first election under the new system, they get some more money to continue their education plans, then move up to provincial, federal, etc.

2. Boost healthcare. The state of all healthcare systems is shameful. Bonus transfer payments for strengthening the healthcare system with higher wages and benefits, lower wait times, more equal access to care, and fewer people without family doctors.

3. Get serious on the environment. Nothing else matters once you can't drink the water and breathe the air. Stop subsidizing carbon, collect carbon taxes, and direct the collected money back to individuals. Big rebates for energy efficiency projects, electric cars & charging.

4. Kickstart housing. It's not rocket surgery that cities and suburbs need higher density housing, with accessible public transit nearby.

That's just off the top of my head...

The NDP already represent a lot of what the majority of Canadians want, but fearmongering about sOciALiSm, and the party having to move more towards the center to try and meet the Liberals halfway has diluted their brand.

The people who would never vote for them anyways think that they're too far left, and the people who used to support them see them as too-eager-to-please to the current Liberal government.

If you could magically snap away people's preconcieved notions and team mentality towards politics, and had them read party policies carte blanche, I think a large portion of Canadians would go NDP, especially if they went back to their traditional policies and mindset.

What does a brand new political party platform look like to appeal to an overwhelming majority of Canadians?

Empty set. The overwhelming majority of Canadians (and voters in general around the world) don't follow policy that closely, which is why spin, kissing babies and brand loyalty is such a huge part of politics.

• Legalized drug possession, criminalize selling without permits and authorization.

• Electoral Reform, I don't know which but anything is better than we have

• Healthcare which includes dental and eyes, pharmacare, mental health care

• Higher corporate tax rates

• Higher taxes on the ultra wealthy

• Higher property taxes for those who own more than 2 properties

• Lower taxes for Low to Middle income

• Increase universities that have medical and nursing programs.

• Allow scary looking guns, increase border security to prevent illegal guns from entering the country in the first place.

• Increase defense spending to meet NATO standards, invest in self sustainability and being able to build and repair our navy.

• a bunch of other shit I can't think of right now

A labor or workers' party that unifies anyone who works for a living, whether as an employee or a small business owner. The platform should focus on shifting the balance of power from capital to labor via clearly social democratic policies with strong emphasis on workers rights and reunionization. This party should go out of its way to advertise and educate the public on why and how these policies benefit the majority. Lon-term future policies might revolve around reforming corporate ownership structures or promoting alternative worker ownership structures, among other things.

I'd love to see an Electoral Reform Party.

They have only two pillars once elected:

1. They will only vote "Yes" to legislation to switch Canada to Single Transferable Vote for the next election, with details to be determined by Elections Canada.
2. They will then vote as a block in complete solidarity with the party that introduced the legislation until the next election, when the party will disband.

Then, more generally, they campaign about how broken FPTP is and how completely compatible STV is to Canadian politics:

1. Keep geographic representation as required by the Constitution.
2. Roughly proportional government, without allowing tiny fringe parties from derailing our political systems.
3. No more "safe seats" for incumbents, so everyone is truly accountable to their constituents.
4. Very good chance that you will have a local MP that aligns with your political views to represent you.
5. Can vote for parties or for individuals within the parties, so it can be simple to vote, but can also scale to political knowledge level and interest.

I could go on. Like that it's been a successful system in Ireland for over a century.

Whatever system it is ... it has to be more socially minded to helping individual common people across the country of all backgrounds, races, cultures and genders

You also have to figure out how to disconnect it from wealth and corporate influence. Once its allowed to have too much money affecting it ... whatever changes you want will just devolve down to what we already have. Money corrupts and money will corrupt every system no matter how socially or equitably minded we want it to be.

Culpability party. The whole point is to enact laws that make people culpable for the things they say. If a member of parliament accuse something, and it's found not to be true, they get some sort of penalty. If they promise something during elections and it doesn't happen after they get elected, they and their party gets a punishment.

And not just some sort of slap on the wrist, but something substantial enough that repeat offences can be career ending within the field of politics. Politicians need to be responsible for what they say, as words are their weapons of choice, and with the level of power they have, they should also carry that level of responsibility.

While there is something to be said about saying something wrong due to ignorance, it's another matter to say something with authority on a subject one is ignorant about. You can't just say something like abortions should be outlawed because women can just turn off their fertility (yes, a politician actually said that).

I would create the evidence party.

It has the stated objective of maximizing quality of life for all Canadians.

It doesn’t care what people think is the best way to do that, it looks at research to determine what is the actual best way to do that and commission’s research to determine the most effective policies when existing evidence doesn’t exist.

It flip-flops on any issue when new research supports a different policy.

Centre Ice Canadians are building the "Our Canadian Future Party" (real name TBD pending elections Canada approval) -- target audience is centrist, with largely reasonable statements so far. In particular, they're heavily pro nuclear, which is a huge selling point for me...

It's hard to say what an "overwhelming majority" platform would look like. With the recent elections it was minority government. You have to cherry pick the most popular policies from each party and hope they don't overlap with the least popular from the same. For one person great social programs are a priority and then another a strong private sector.

Super interested to see what more politically inclined folks have to say!

I've always been for creating a series of hills across Canada so we can take our bikes and coast from coast to coast...

But, as someone who lives abroad I would love to be able to vote again. Has that rule changed?

Maybe election reform someday would be appealing to a majority of Canadians, and also teaching about elections in school a little more.

My mother is getting old and she feels like old people have a shit deal, so we need to do something about that. Student loan debt needs to be sorted out.

I want more emphasis on the environment. When I move back to Canada, I would pay carbon taxes if there were also carbon freebates (or whatever they want to call them). I would be all for 4-day workweeks or even universal income. Yes, I am a dirty socialist eco-friendly freak. Leave the trees alone, stop maplewashing everything, we have the space to rewild areas, invest in trains and stop charging so much for them (don't know how that would work), and make sure people can have a retirement to look forward to. Minimum wage should be higher, teachers should earn more, new parents should have MONTHS of paid parental leave, childcare needs to be covered...

Healthcare needs an overhaul: why was my mother on a 9-month waitlist to confirm she had lymphoma? Why is my 72-year-old father still working 16-hour days even though he is sick? Why can't either of them see their GP?

Canadians are more divided than ever, I don't think you'll be able to find a platform that appeals to the overwhelming majority

No house parties! Once the election is over, people are seated randomly and every vote is a free vote.That way there is an organizational structure for the creation of platforms, but proposed legislation has to legitimately convince a majority of sitting members.

None of the above! This becomes a formal option on the ballot. If NOTB wins a constituency, there is an automatic by-election and none of the people on that ballot can run again. If NOTB is elected to the ruling party, well, that's a pretty big do over that comes with a pretty strong signal that every party and every candidate is out of touch with reality.

Abolish FPTP! There are some legitimate arguments over the pros and cons of various electoral systems, but every honest person knows that FPTP is fatally flawed.

Citizens' committees! I fail to see how a large enough collection of randomly selected people could possibly do worse than our current crop. We might never have true sortition and maybe true sortition is a bad idea, but a randomly selected citizens' committee would let us test the waters and experiment with different amounts of "power to the people". At the very least, a parallel structure with no party alignments might come up with different ideas than we have now.

The old Conservative Party, the current one is just the reform party

want what's best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country.

Okay, so caring for one another is in and the blue party is out.

Saving money through consolidation and single-payer services? Again, blue's out. Orange has it here but can't get into power without vote reform and the courage it gives us to vote our hearts.

One's obligation to friends, family, and the country, directly proportional to one's income, so our most at-risk can focus on improvement? Blues still out. This seems to be a red thing.

I don't know whether there's enough there to get a new party. Who's convinced you that one of the existing ones are no good; and tell us which blue it was too.