To be clear, I’m not agreeing with or endorsing the take.
If pp had won, my kids would have already been reciting the pledge of allegiance in the morning.
The reason I know you’re right is because I went to a religious private school where my first homeroom teacher made us sing the national anthem and recite a (Canadian?) pledge of allegiance. I can’t remember how often but it was regular enough that one time I warned a new kid he’d get detention at recess for having his hands in his pockets during recital.
The culture of subservience to America has a heartbeat.
I am so sick of people trying to act like everyone who voted LPC defensively didn’t know what they were voting for.
Meanwhile how is a gridlocked CPC minority government helpful? I disagree with the assertion that a minority CPC wouldn’t attract floor crossers; especially in the context of a gridlocked legislature.
No.
If the Grits are known for “virtue signalling”, the Tories love what I’ll call “vice signalling”, making flagrant displays of intentional bigotry and cruelty to show how tough they are against the ills of society. They’d do that constantly if they can even wield the smallest semblance of controlling power. You see it all the time from Washington DC, and with PP in charge it wouldn’t be at arms length anymore.
I laid out about a month ago why minority C was not necessarily the only alternative outcome in the 2025 election, and why I disagreed with a very similar opinion that minority C would be worse than small majority L.
No a very very ver loud and resounding no.
Counterpoint:
Carney effectively enacting a conservative agenda would get lefties to uncompromisingly vote NDP and probably shift a part of the centre-left in the same direction. An effect similar to what’s happening to the UK Labour vote going to the UK Greens.
IMO NDP did not leverage their deal with the LPC enough to undo the PR damage of propping up the LPC. Yes they accomplished some good health improvements for our social safety net, but those benefits don’t apply to the majority of Canadians. As such they gained minimally from it.
I’m sorry to have to say this but given the record levels of racism towards south asians, having a visibly sikh party leader probably didn’t help.
Like ultimately the NDP failed because it catered too much to LPC voters IMO. Hopefully Avi Lewis can get the party back on track.
Definitely Sikh party leader did not help. If Avi Lewis had been leader, the wouldn’t have fallen as far down as they have this past election. Avi has been very positive, for me, at least.
