Inside Canada’s Conservative identity crisis

5 hours ago by Sunshine to c/canada

As Carney's Liberals adopt a raft of right-wing policies, the country’s largest Conservative gathering shows the party’s activists are turning to more reactionary approaches on culture, identity, and national belonging

Reannlegge 13 points 5 hours ago

I would really like to see the conservatives split into 2 parties again! Then I would like to see voter election reform.

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Sunshine 8 points 4 hours ago

But you see they understand that consolidating under one party under first-past-the-post wins them more elections.

The elites would rather not have their members split into Libertarian, United, Centrist, Future, CHP and PPC factions.

They don’t want conservatives to have real choice under proportional representation and save taxes preventing cancelled projects when the government changes. It’s either stinking Pierre Poilievre or the highway.

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Reannlegge 5 points 4 hours ago

With any luck once Trump is out of office some of the Liberals will see that Carney is a conservative in a liberal suit and cross to the NDP, or more likely fracture and start a new party. Once the liberals do not have a majority any more I see the conservatives who do not like PP will see Carney for what he is and jump ship. I really hope to see some change in our government, especially with how close we are getting to the EU.

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Sunshine 4 points 4 hours ago

It would be nice to see liberals with a conscience split from Carney’s liberal party.

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Sunshine 7 points 5 hours ago

What are the distinct policies Conservatives are fighting for that clearly distinguish them from Carney’s Liberals?

Again, in his keynote speech, Poilievre argued that Conservatives “have won these debates so thoroughly that Liberals have stopped debating us altogether and started plagiarizing.” Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole recently struck a similar note, writing to Carney on his Substack: “keep it up on all of these issues.”

Carney’s current agenda on the environment, immigration, government spending, foreign policy, defence, and technology is already being pursued in a manner similar to, if not directly aligned with, longstanding Conservative priorities. Carney is moving forward with new pipelines, aggressive deregulation, disregarding Indigenous sovereignty, cutting immigration and ramping up deportations, gutting the federal public service, inflating our defence (war-making) capabilities, getting tougher on crime, selling off public assets, undermining labour unions, doing away with pharmacare, and doubling down on AI technologies and data centres.

While some key differences regarding social policies, cultural politics, and geostrategic relations with China and the United States remain, in broad policy strokes, they are fairly analogous to many existing Conservative policy platforms

https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/icymi-june-15-21

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veeesix 7 points 5 hours ago