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Originally Posted by biguc
Funny how the UK has a conservative government that--and this is going to surprise a lot of people here--doesn't include Trudeau but they have basically all the same problems. I've already set myself a reminder for two years from now, when the large language model trained on Twitter's most toxic right-wing accounts will have been Canada's PM for a while. Nothing will have changed for the better.
I get that many of you are mad, but projecting your own ideas onto a man who exists purely to own the libs isn't going to make him become anything more than that. Today's problems will still exist, plus hardcore austerity, plus social conservatism. Look for PP to pick up where Harper left off: attempting to pass law after law that violates our charter rights. The difference is, the more he fails, the more vindictive and cruel he'll get.
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I think you're getting a bit too caught up in framing this as a partisan, left/right culture wars issue. And for some, it certainly is - but the prevailing criticism both here and across the country right now seems to moreso be one of basic government competence: something which knows no particular ideology - and something that both the British Tories and Canadian Liberals currently lack.
I think for most people, competence & good governance trumps ideology or partisanship when it comes to supporting (or not) a government. Will the Conservatives be any better on this front? I doubt it. But in a democracy, the only way to affect change is to vote out then incumbent - the Conservatives in this case are just the most viable alternative.
If the NDP hadn't completely shit the bed, they might have actually had a shot at forming government in this moment. Trudeau's Liberals are reviled and no one is particularly enthusiastic for PP's Conservatives - but alas, Jagmeet & the NDP braintrust have conspired to ensure they remain a perpetual third party. Realistically, our best case scenario is that PP runs an okay-but-not-great government for 4 years, and then a refreshed Liberal Party comes back in 2029 with some improved leadership and actual vision.