Originally posted by Flubber
Thats quite an assertion. I don't doubt that there are some rascist Conservatives but don't you think your comment is a bit much.
Thats quite an assertion. I don't doubt that there are some rascist Conservatives but don't you think your comment is a bit much.
Western Canadian social conservatism simply will not fly in Ontario or Quebec, and without one of those, you cannot be elected as the Government of Canada. Western Canadians have to accept that they are politically irrelevant. Ontario and Quebec are where it's at, and that is just a fact.
If the Conservatives had moved to embrace the old style PC party (relatively socially liberal and slightly to the right of the Liberals on economic issues), they would probably be in power right now. But they didn't. Instead they have focused on a platform that alienates a majority of Canadians, and have topped this off by having the two worst leaders in recent Canadian political history.
People out west like to howl and moan, but the fact is that Canada as a whole is a socially liberal and relatively economically liberal society. Unless the Conservatives get rid of their social conservatism, they will never be the Government of Canada. They might squeak in as a minority, but that's living on borrowed time.
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