🇨🇦Canadian here, AMA! 🧞♂️
🇨🇦Canadian here, AMA! 🧞♂️
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How realistic do you think it would be for the right-wing to gain control of Canada?
Pretty much inevitable at this point. The Liberal party has been in power for a while now, and Canadians start to get antsy and vote out the incumbent party after a while. The only real question is how conservative is the Conservative party going to be when they get in.
Yea this is a question of damage control. My wife is worried about them attempting to remove abortion access in lock step, and now she isn't wrong to be afraid. Populism is toxic.
Also, all of the disinformation campaigns that worked to destabilize the US were vindicated by this election result, so you can expect similar interference in the Canadian election next year.
Learn a little French and move to Quebec, were Canada a California on most social issues.
I wonder whether the Trump win down South might make folks more reluctant to have all Conservative
- Canadian Federal government
- Several Provincial governments
- US gov
All at the same time.
I mean for the kind of voter who is interchangeable between conservative and liberal (not people who are bona fide right-wing or left-wing voters because a principled person with an actual political orientation doesn't flip so frivolously or unpredictably and they sure as hell vote reliably)
A certainty.
Liberals have been in power for a decade at this point (5th-6th longest term in history depending on when exactly the election happens), and have picked up a ton of baggage, from corruption scandals (some more manufactured than others) , oil pipeline flubs that left everyone mad, blackface scandal, political interference, broken promises of electoral reform, even a divorce. They currently hang on to an extremely weak minority with the NDP. The only reason there hasn't already been an election is that the NDP is too broke to put up a real fight.
Anyone right of centre will literally foam at the mouth at the mention of Trudeau, anyone left of centre is disappointed and disinterested. The NDP is likely to pick up seats, but they have never held power and the current leader is seen as pretty weak, they don't stand a good chance of gaining power.
the conservative party is polling with a 20point lead right now, look at this map. Furthermore they have been taking a hard right turn over the last few years to avoid losing out to a far-right party that has emerged, the new leader poilievre is a populist and the furthest right I have ever seen a viable Canadian candidate. He's also french speaking, which has traditionally been a strength of the liberals and weakness of the CPC. He is actively campaigning on reducing trans folks (and especially trans children) access to healthcare, ending the carbon tax, reducing immigration and has been dog whistling hard about restricting abortion.
The question is not If he takes power, but rather how quickly we can rebuild left wing power and how much can we mitigate the damage. Personally I hope Greens pick up a few seats, liberals get their shit together within a year and no-confidence Mr.PP. He mostly won't be winning because he's popular but rather his opponents are politically radioactive.
Hopefully we can limit PP to a minority government so he can't do too much damage.
that'd be a huge pull, but if it were to happen we'd probably end up with a very exciting 5-way split which would be quite exciting (and probably extremely unstable). if ABC voters can heavily coordinate AND PP says a bunch of quiet stuff out loud then it could happen.
Oh, it’s all over. By the end of his 4 years, he will just choose to stay and elect his replacement. Voting is done.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "voting is done" but I think our parliamentary system is somewhat more resistant to systemic fuckery than the US system.
I don't mean we are invincible, but 1 conservative term is not going to end democracy in Canada.
Frighteningly
Liberal party is centre-right already. Liberalism opposes humanism to the degree that it favours capital over human needs.