Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we’re faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.
Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.
Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we’re faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.
Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.
These are strange times indeed.
This election was so weird in so many ways, I think it will be some time before we fully understand what it all means.
I’m just terrified about the younger generation skewing conservative. I get why, but it doesn’t make me worry any less. Carney better make housing affordable that all I know.
From what I understand, housing has a lot less to do with the federal government and more to do with your municipal and even provincial government. If you are keen on housing improvements, make sure to check with your local mlas and what they have planned for housing. More tangible results will come from there first.
Oh absolutely. But there is plenty the feds can be doing as well. In fact I would argue the financialization of housing is more in the realm of the feds.
Yeah, Carney is on an anti-PP ticket. If he doesn’t do drastic changes that all demographics see, we’re in for whatever hurt the next con leader brings. It’s kinda like the UK election and I hope Carney doesn’t shit the bed like Starmer. If he understands this and is willing to act, he can.
I worry even if he does make changes they’ll get ignored or overly politicized like the carbon tax was.
The LPC needs to be 100x better at communication, that is largely what left room for cheap slogans to crush Trudeau.
Maybe someone should communicate to them that they were elected when they promised electoral reform and they never delivered.
Loudly and aggressively.
He needs to get Canadian news out of Postmedia’s hands.
And regulate Meta into showing and paying for Canadian news. Also somehow unfucking the algo but I doubt they’d succeed into doing much about that.
Oof, yeah. I mean one way to help it is to achieve significant enough results that people see and feel in their lives. Universal dental and pharmacare would be two obvious, short-term low hanging fruits. But yeah, they still need to advertise that they did it. Mid-term everyone is waiting on housing costs.
Those kids are going to get their faces rubbed in USA fascism for the next four years. Every horror they come up with as their country burns they’ll be witness to.
We’ll see if they stay conservative or not.
The definition of conservative needs to change. We’re allowed to be fiscally conservative without being hateful bigots. The problem is, the existing parties keep aligning themselves with the wack-jobs, and the alternatives are… the Liberals.
+1. I am on the left, but I can meet in the middle with a fiscal conservative. Wouldn’t like having one in power, but I can live with it.
Social conservatives though? As a trans person, and looking at what’s going on south of the border and in the UK, I consider social conservatives to be an existential threat.
I wish we had a legitimately multi-party system that didn’t encourage all the conservatives to be under the same umbrella; I would feel a lot safer.
That’s called “liberalism.” In fact, that’s always been called “liberalism.” The only reason more people don’t understand that fact is that extremist right-wing propaganda is incredibly effective.
I think the party splitting back into its Progressive Conservative and Reform components is long overdue. PCs might’ve held their noses and agreed to a merge for the sake of defeating the Liberals, but since then they’ve sat passively allowing the extreme regressives to take the reins.
I always appreciated the old adage about Canadian politics that the outcome will always be the most boring option. This was not that.