Innovative Research finds the Conservative Party of Canada has positioned itself as the party of ‘hope’ in much the same way the Liberals ahead of the 2015 election.
Wow, I can barely believe people are so gullible as to look at Pierre, at Conservatism, and see hope. Conservatism has no answer to modern problems because it seeks solely to maintain or restore traditional solutions that have largely lead to the problems of today. The CPC seeks to conserve them, it’s right there in the name.
Sure, they’re very good at observing what’s currently wrong and pinning blame for it, but actual solutions? No.
That last part is why they get votes. Just acknowledging the problem is a huge win for some. I get it, the current government can’t exactly complain that food and housing costs are out of control and need to be addressed. They either do something about it or they don’t. Whatever they’ve done hasn’t been enough, the Conservatives are right to call them out, and Canadians are right to lose confidence.
The issue is that the CPC have no solutions themselves. Poilievre has never once said how he will fix food and housing costs despite talking about it daily. I wish people wouldn’t just vote for someone pointing out problems without suggesting solutions, but I also get why they do.
Just acknowledging the problem is a huge win for some. I get it, the current government can’t exactly complain that food and housing costs are out of control and need to be addressed.
This is pretty much it.
People are hurting. Every trip to the grocery store is a reminder that you aren’t making enough. Rent feels like it’s on an escalator, and many home owners are dreading renewing their mortgage.
The federal government has made some half hearted policy statements about building more homes, and they’ve shoveled some cheques out, but there’s no sense that the affordability crisis is being addressed. Worse, the Federal Liberals don’t look like they care.
Lots of people are going to vote against that.
People aren’t particularly smart. They vote based on emotion.
The current sentiment is unhappiness, so “it can’t get worse” is how people are voting.
It can get worse though… we will see 4 years of the Conservatives eroding social policies and benefits, and still not see any improvement in our day to day lives because as you accurately pointed out, they don’t actually have the answers.
They won’t reduce immigration, because even they realize it’s necessary to keep the economy functional. They won’t get enough housing built to drop prices, because that would hurt homeowners (still a majority of voters) They won’t get food prices down, because that’s not in their control at all. Those are international commodities.
They will remove the carbon tax, and save you a couple hundred dollars a year initially while allowing pollution to build so we end up spending billings more on floods and wildfires in the future. Then they’ll start hurting people, Trans, Gay, Women, Minorities, etc. just because they like to.
Remember women make up only 18% of the elected Conservative members of parliament, by far the lowest party behind the second worse Liberals at 33%, and the NDP/Bloc at 38%. This is not by accident.
I may not like the Liberals, but they’re still better than the Conservatives, and I’m still going to vote NDP unless they do something really stupid.
I sincerely hope Trudeau and Jagmeet would pull some sort of a hail Mary prior to the next election.
Election reform would be a good one.
It’s what I have in mind as well. Even the bare minimum half-ass patch like a ranked ballot would do.
A hail mary consisting of Trudeau handing over the LPC reigns to someone else and declining appointment seems thr most likely to avoid Smol PP.
I feel a leadership change won’t have a sufficient effect. Unless the change is towards some populist proper leftie that doesn’t mince words and actions. I don’t know if the LPC has such people. Nate comes to mind but even he might not be outspoken enough. Especially given how the Ontario Liberal Party leadership vote went.
Unfortunately incumbents have a pretty unshakable advantage in elections, and as far as I can tell anyone who hates Trudeau enough to vote for Pierre also hates the entire liberal party
