Opinion: Mark Carney has shown a confidence in the existence of Canada (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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"All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood."

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[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 months ago

Its hard to believe the polls could do a 180 like that, given the Carney and Pierre are ideologically opposite.

Not difficult to believe at all, once you remember that the average voter makes their decision based on emotions rather than rational thought. There were a whole bunch of people who wanted anyone other than Trudeau as PM. They would have agreed to vote for a pet rock as long as its name wasn't "Justin Trudeau", but they didn't really think much of Poilievre even if they saw him as the only alternative to The Guy They Didn't Want.

Politics in a democracy are more a popularity contest than anything else.