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Total Catastrophe Was Avoided, But Canada Is Heading Rightward (www.readthemaple.com)

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Without the influence of Trump, we would likely now be instead contending with a Conservative majority government helmed by the party’s most right-wing leader ever.

In fact, the Conservatives made significant gains, despite failing to achieve the electoral outcome they desired. Across the country, the rightward drift is readily apparent, with Conservatives growing their seat count from 119 to 143 and their popular vote share from 33.7 to 41.3 per cent from 2021 to 2025. Moreover, the right secured growth as voter turnout rose by more than 6 percentage points.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 53 points 5 days ago

Nah, just like everywhere else in the world, liberals (both in the Canadian political party sense and general ideological sense) are losing ground because they refuse to address the root causes of things like the housing crisis and spiraling economic inequality. The working class is fed up, and with no real solutions being offered by the center to center-left, they're turning in desperation to lying right-wing demagogues.

[-] small44@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Npd is the only major party adressing to root problem yet people voted for liberals and conservatives

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

NDP voter here, I voted liberal in the last election just because fascism was somehow the alternative. I will return to the NDP once the threat has abated or the NPD poll well enough to be a reasonable vote. (I will of course support them in the polls in pursuit of that goal.)