Washington Post: Canada’s Conservative Party is in shambles
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This article says the next election is in 2023?
Was there one planned for this fall?
Not officially... not yet.
There are a lot of rumours Trudeau is planning one for this fall, but it has not been announced.
Trudeau does appear to be going around the country and making major financing announcements for various programs (mass transit, green energy etc). These likely are intended to sway votes his way in a forthcoming election - but they can't make these announcements, or spend the people's money, if the election is announced as parliament stops till the election occurs.
Trudeau's workaround seems to be to do the financing announcements first, then presumably call an election soon.
Of course - he could always change his mind about the election call, but I expect there will be one in the fall.
The solution is and always has been to win over the centre without alienating your conservative base. This is nothing new. Those were always the rules and that's how every Conservative election victory in Canadian history was won. O'Toole's problem is he has no real electoral experience and doesn't understand the game. He doesn't know how to find the delicate balance between courting the centre while not alienating your base, so he makes the wrong concessions like firing Sloan, embracing carbon taxes, demoting PP etc etc. He's not qualified to play this game and he should never have run for leader. MacKay likely would be doing a lot better right now, if for no other reason than he had to learnt that "Don't alienate your base" lesson the hard way. with his "stinking albatross" gaffe.
How long have you been paying attention to politics if you don't mind me asking? Relatively recently? Like in the last ten years I mean?
Because it's been like that since literally forever. How the fuck else do you think previous conservative campaigns got elected, if not by winning over the centre? Like you do realize whoever wins the centre wins the election, and you can't win the centre if you swing out to the hard-right, yes? If you want to see how many votes there are for parties that swing hard right, just check the PPC's latest polling numbers.
ROFL if the CPC ever want advice on how to finish with zero seats and <2% of the vote, I'm sure they'll give you a call.
Harper won because he won over Quebec.
Trudeau lost a lot of seats in Qc last election, CPC needs to pander to Quebec like Harper did.
Don't need to pander to centrists, pander to Quebec, they are very conservative over there but their mind frames is Quebec first.
Trudeau knows he gets most of the votes if he keeps the West and the East divided. Stop the pipe line, make Albertans hate Qc which results in Qc hating Albertans again and not wanting to vote CPC.
Quebec is where the votes are.
I know most of Canada doesn't care about Quebec, a lot of shit happens in Qc on the news and no one cares or knows about it in the rest of Canada, but people really need to start focusing on what's happening there.
To be fair, which party leader doesn't have a punchable face right now?