CanPol Thread: the United Right etc.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Uh, beg pardon, but it sure dont sound like east and west of Canada are one country, now does it?

Canada's about a hundred different countries in one. We laugh at US claims of diversity.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Sounds like the western provinces have a range of views on social issues roughly similar to the States

Only certain parts of it.

Alberta: yes, mostly
BC: the parts that aren't Native American or Vancouver, yes
Bits of Manitoba and Saskatchewan: yes

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Deal.

If the new Conservatives win more seats than the NDP, you wear my choice of avatar, and if the NDP wins more seats than the conservatives, I will wear your choice of avatar. The period will be 10 days starting from the day after the next federal election.

LoTM:

We haven't even gotten to the friendly folks in Quebec of whom 49% voted to secede entirely from Canada.

Ha ha. We really scared the piss out of Ontario with that one.

Too bad you guys don't have the balls to pull a bluff like that.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by cinch
HE'S BAAAAACK!

Yay!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither


I think you are reading too much into hyped up posts from the POV of people who are at the other end of the political spectrum from what was the Reform party, and the Conservatives for that matter.

There are regional issues, that is very true. However, what you quoted from this thread is more a difference of political affiliation than regional squabbling.

What Ben has pointed out partly, is that people did indeed vote for the old Reform East of Manitoba. Part of the problem was that others were voting for the old Tories. Still others would have voted strategically, perhaps for a Liberal if they gathered that the right was unlikely to form a government while fighting amongst themselves and that it might be better to have representation in government.

Of course it is true that some of the socially conservative tones of Reform are a turn off to many Canadians, many Westerners in that number.

In short, there is some chortling being done by supporters of a left wing party at the expense of their nemeses on the right. It's OK, because they are never going to get close to power themselves, so they might as well get their kicks in now while the right is down. Believe me, the right is about as down as it is ever going to get in this country. Eventually, a majority of Canadians are going to want a change of governing parties. When that day comes, it is highly unlikely that conservatives across the country will unite with those in the centre to elect the NDP.

What we need is for somebody like Paul Martin on crack to really piss off the left branch of the Grits. Then we can split them down the centre (or a bit more than the centre?) and run away with an election due to the nice folks in Quebec, eastern Ontario, Vancouver and some of the Maritimes.