The Great Canadian Reset
The Great Canadian Reset
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.
Conservative is just another word for fascist
What the fuck. Clear your head. No it isn't. But fascists support right wing parties.
Yes it is. Conservatives have shown time and time again that they will vote and cheer for fascism if conditions are bad enough.
You are part of the problem. The normalization of conservative politics leads directly to fascism.
This is the change we voted for. I hope all these fuckers take note, change leadership, and push for PR.
It wouldn't hurt to present future platforms that don't look as
removeddumb as Poilievre's.Preview to entice the lazy - here's text only from the link above (there are several links within this text in the original):
Simple things you can do to grow the PR movement:
Donate to proportional representation advocacy, AisB, or PR supporting parties. Subscribe and post to the !fairvote@lemmy.ca community. Educate: A Simple Guide to Electoral Systems. Follow: List of social media accounts for Canadian Democracy. Consume only Canadian Owned and Operated Media. Vote and encourage others to vote every opportunity you can! Share this list with others!Also see: We must keep advocating for proportional representation. If PR dies, so does Canadian democracy as we know it. FPTP is already pushing us toward a two-party system, just like the USA.
Thanks for sharing. This is exactly the information we need at this time in our history.
As someone who typically votes NDP, I’m fine with the idea. I didn’t especially dislike Singh, but I didn’t especially like him either.
Of course I don’t especially like Carney either but he was the safest choice to block PP and he did.
I want to see an NDP federal government someday, but Singh wasn’t really resonating with many people. Hopefully whoever fills the spot inspires more confidence.
They supported the Liberals when they broke up union strikes, and when they did mass immigration after the cost of living exploded and we finally had wage pressure.
What is the point of the NDP at that point, just to prevent white people from speaking at rallies?
that summarises my feelings. the NDP did a lot of good, but needed to hold the liberals feet to the fire more.
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.
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.
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.
I always appreciated the old adage about Canadian politics that the outcome will always be the most boring option. This was not that.
I was just thinking that BQ still have their leader on, but naur, they’re almost wholly regionalistic that it’s not really worth talking about in terms of a national leadership reset. It would be straight up disastrous for BQ as a whole if Blanchet wasn’t even elected as MP.
That said, PP has a chance at staying on as leader; he may have squandered the last few months leading up to the election, but from the various polls we’ve seen, the gap was closing between the LPC and the CPC, and PP has the historic vote share to pressure the party’s leadership into letting him stay
Jagmeet is unfortunate but his time was far over. You could argue that the NDP was sacrificed for the LPC (f you FPTP), but in many provinces, their seatsand even vote share were somewhat evenly split between the LPC and the CPC, so it’s not purely a consequence of strategic voting; the CPC definitely ate some of their original pie. Not only is this bad news for the NDP (cause it means they’ve really disappointed their supporters), but that some of these disappointments may have led to voters swinging to the other side. We’ll have to wait until we see voter turnout data to give us more hints about what else we should takeaway from this election.
The LPC, well, Carney’s already a new leader, so the reset’s already done there, but the other people aren’t likely to change, at least there hasn’t been an indication of that. They have their work cut out for them this time, and it will be a really tough 4 years ahead, or shorter. If they disappoint, and couldn’t solve at least a few of the crises we’re in right now, they might really get fully wiped out. I hope they actually are aware of that fact, especially given how dangerously close the CPC is to them (vote share, not seats, though they’re arguably pretty close in seats too).
I really hope the LPC actually recognizes that they’re deep in the water right now, and that there are people in the LPC with visions that’ll prioritize the longevity of the Canadian center and left by implementing PR, in case they actually fail to deliver and get wiped off the national stage.
A neighbor from the south would like to send his congratulations. Thank you for not following in our footsteps!
I felt like all of the leaders were haggard and ineffective, so I’m glad.
I hope we can bring in more leaders with an updated idea of how things work and a better focus on communication and policies.
I also want fewer politicians if that makes sense, I want a government that criticizes the liberals and goes “here’s how we could do that better” instead of dumb rhetoric.
Pp did not resign and indicated he would keep going
Resign or not, his career is finished with the conservatives. Every leader before him who failed at an election was removed, asked to step aside or pushed out.
Not necessarily. He did very well on the vote share front. There will be a leadership review, but I could see him getting a second shot once Carneys shine has worn off. Minority governments seldom last very long.
We shall see if the trope about conservatives eating their own is a justified stereotype then. We should, perhaps, look to the former leaders of the PC party who did not win elections to see how their fortunes fared.
A lot of good things happened for the CPC under PP (unfortunately for the rest of us). Trudeau had to step down, the carbon tax is gone, the CPC gained seats and secured a record number of votes and the "far left" has been wrecked. While the liberal narrative is that PP fumbled a huge lead, I think cons see it more as carney resetting all the work PP did to discredit Trudeau, as trump interfering with the election (for his own gain, they think Carney is weak and will fold to trump) and they see the polls tightening as the election got closer (and him out preforming them) as a sign of PP's success. They think Carney will show his true colours soon enough and become as unpopular as Trudeau, allowing PP to win.
O'toole didn't acomplish much of anything during his time, the CPC mainly stayed the same or slightly declined despite liberals being steeped in controversy.
Sheer one his leadership race by a very small margin while the CPC (and right wing politics in general) was having an identity crisis, while they gained ground under him they did not make the strides they expected. Sheer also had that financial scandal.
I think PPs perceived performance is much closer to Harpers first loss. but even that isn't a great comparison IMO we are in new territory, exciting times and all that.
Disclaimer: I voted green, when I talk about good or bad here I'm putting myself in the shoes of a conservative voter, and I'm talking about perception as the right wing sees it, not necessarily fact. Their feelings don't care about your facts :D