I am very excited Trudeau has been given another mandate.
Should the Liberals focus on staying the course or trying to enact change or innovation?
What is the winning formula for the Conservatives: The more moderate approach of O'Toole or the populism of Maxime Bernier or their traditional position??
How can Jagmeet Singh translate his popularity as a leader to electoral success for his party??
Trudeau has to govern even further left now. He cannot threaten another election and scare the NDP and Bloc Québécois into giving into Liberal demands. They will call his bluff and force him to enact some of their leftist policies.
Staying moderate and waiting until voters are tired of the Liberals. It's a 70% centre-left country and they only vote out the Liberals, they never vote in Conservatives. They don't need to listen to their right wing base; they never do.
He and his party will never win. Canadians don't support socialists; only university students and poor people do. His own Sikh community rejected him (as always) as they almost entirely vote Liberal. Social democrats are lazy bums for the most part.
Trudeau has to govern even further left now. He cannot threaten another election and scare the NDP and Bloc Québécois into giving into Liberal demands. They will call his bluff and force him to enact some of their leftist policies.
Staying moderate and waiting until voters are tired of the Liberals. It's a 70% centre-left country and they only vote out the Liberals, they never vote in Conservatives. They don't need to listen to their right wing base; they never do.
He and his party will never win. Canadians don't support socialists; only university students and poor people do. His own Sikh community rejected him (as always) as they almost entirely vote Liberal. Social democrats are lazy bums for the most part and are not respectable people.
Both incorrect.I think Trudeau governing further left will extend his political lifespan as he was initially elected as the leader of change and new ideas. Recently, it has been more "if you don't vote for me, we will lose all the progress we made" rather than plans for further progress.
Canada is an interesting nation. As I said on other threads, it's practically a one-party state with the Liberals only losing because they f*cked up rather than the Conservatives being any better.
As for Jagmeet, you are probably right. Canada is a centre-left country, with no real appetite for conservatism or social democracy beyond what the Liberals offer.
also don’t forget that in 2011 was probably the worst ever year for Liberals where they completely lost in Ontario, their stronghold, and had less seats than even NDP!Both incorrect.
The Conservatives have as much hold on Canada as the Liberals.
Currently the Liberals have won a majority government in 2015 and 2 minorities in 2019 and 2021. This matches what the Conservatives did with Stephen Harper as the prime minister where they won 2 minority governments in 2006 and 2008 and a majority government where they were in power for 4 years from 2011-2015.
Idk how you can forget that for 8 years straight we had a conservative government. The fact that liberals won a majority in 2015 but perform worse and worse in the 2019 and 2021 elections show that Canada will bounce back to conservatives.
Just like the US, Canada isn’t immune to the right-wing left-wing oscillation of government.