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For context, gun crime and shootings are not problems in Canada, but the ruling parties love to make political hay out of things that happen in the US and use t
by version_five 4y ago
For context, gun crime and shootings are not problems in Canada, but the ruling parties love to make political hay out of things that happen in the US and use them to provoke their opponents. Canada also had some kind of "reaffirm a woman's right to abortion" motion recently, when there is literally zero discussion about changing abortion laws in Canada, because Trudeau/Singh wanted to try and provoke the conservatives.
- jleyank 4y agoWatching the Federal Conservative race and the Ontario election I would say that the various mainstream Conservative parties are self-provoking. And it's interesting to see that they might be attacked from the right so as to split the Right/Centre vote as the NDP and Liberals split the Left/Centre vote. The existence of the NDP is a wonderful thing for the Cons, and it's only fair that the Cons get to fight over "their" votes as well.
- version_five 4y agoDefinitely self provoking, because the conservative party / parties overlap policy-wise with the liberals (and probably NDP). For example Charest would be indistinguishable from the Liberals on a lot of policies, as would Doug Ford. Unfortunately the actual "conservative" elements usually have some other ideological hangups that make them impossible as mainstream choices. But I'd rather support a slightly politically unpalatable further right conservative that won't take power than see all the parties just converge to some sort of centre-left unprincipled thing and have no different voices in the discussion, like in the last federal election.