Policy Areas

Insurance, more than most other industries, has become corrupt and lost sight of its primary purpose. No longer is their focus to restore people who have suffered an unexpected loss, but instead they have optimized statistics to produce profit for the few - at the cost of heartbroken victims of circumstance. There is no reason the insurance industry needs to make a profit; for that reason, we will work toward the complete deprivatization of the insurance industry.

The very first finding in a 2019 review of the Canadian criminal justice system[1], was that "the [current] system is archaic and has not kept pace with social change [and] some of its values and principles are outdated, including relying too heavily on punishment and incarceration and not enough on rehabilitation." The RPC believes the justice system should be restorative, proportional, compassionate, ethical, and equitable, not focused on punitive outcomes or corrupted for personal and political gain.

The purpose of our economy is primarily to create and maintain the necessities for society. We are lucky enough to have surplus in our economic production which can also provide for many of our personal wishes and desires, beyond just our needs. Building a strong, resilient economy is critical to ensuring this continues to be the case. An economy is not a playground for the ultrawealthy capitalists to extract surplus value by exploiting labourers.

The government monopoly on the sanctioned use of force has numerous dramatic advantages and inherent problems, the main issue being its tendency to be politicized, manipulated, and corrupted by outside influences.​ A self-reinforcing cycle of asking too much of an impossibly unprepared group and politicizing their successes and failures has resulted in a police force that has lost their original purpose. We want to invest heavily in an entirely modernized police force that prioritizes protecting all human life - including their own lives - over all types of property crime.

Scientific research is the main reason we continue to live longer, healthier lives than our ancestors and science has only increased it's impacts, positive and negative, on humanity over time. Because we believe that evidence-based science creates the foundation upon which many of our policies rely it makes sense that we must also invest in the research and development of all the sciences that give us those insights, including social and theoretical sciences, not just applied sciences.

We are on the verge of an age of space exploration fueled by unprecedented capability of individuals to create and operate private space vehicles. As a result, it's time to catch up - and get ahead - of these changes to prevent repeating in space the same mistakes we've made here on Earth. Hand-in-hand with exploration of space will inevitably come human expansion. In 1967, humanity had the foresight to create the Outer Space Treaty[1] which sought to protect space from unsustainable exploitation and dangerous weaponization. With all that's changed in more than 50 years, it's time to update international treaties governing human expansion into the infinite dark void.