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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 121 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The two largest political parties in Canada faced off in a polarizing election (at the expense of the smaller Canadian parties): the Liberals (slightly left of centre), vs. Conservatives (right wing big tent party). Canada's political system works as several simultaneous races for a parliamentary representative for their area, then the political party with the most representatives total selects (or has selected beforehand) a leader who will be the Prime Minister.

Now the Conservatives had been expected to take over due to the previous Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, being blamed for inflation and anything bad by Conservatives, Trudeau not accomplishing much and people being tired of the incumbent. But then, Justin Trudeau steps down and chooses a new leader who calls an election, Trump gets in office and threatens Canada, leading enough people to realize what shit-fuckery Trump style politics in Canada would lead to (not as many as I'd like, but enough).

The Conservatives had a decent vote share, but the leader, Pierre Poilievre who ran on a diet version of populist conservative nationalism, lost his own seat. In the meantime, the province (a sub-national region) of Ontario also held an election. The Progressive Conservative party (right of centre populist) got majority power in the province again due to the party and leader, Doug Ford, campaigning strongly against Trump.

The provincial party had been warning the national one to change tack against Trump, both in private from leaked statements and in public from some current and former campaign managers. The Nova Scotia Premier, (leader of another province, also a Conservative party) also warned them. However, Pierre was too slow to do that, and his campaign style of not letting the press ask questions freely remained, reminiscent of the Trump administration, which partly contributed to Canada's Conservative relative loss of power.

In Trump-style politics, Dear Leader (Pierre who did not get elected in his own election race) can do no wrong, so now that the election is done, it's time for the blame game and the knives are out. The crazies of the Conservative party are going to attack anyone, even if they are politically aligned, if they dared to tell the truth about Poilievre's likeness to Trump leading him to failure.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

The Liberals aren't slightly left of center, it's a center right party that got forced to do left wing stuff to stay in power.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'd say socially they are. Fiscally... only the NDP is consistently really left of center.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 hours ago
[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 13 points 23 hours ago

Great summary! I can't see the Conservatives splitting and giving up their chances of gaining power, but I hope this at least tamps down the PPC elements of the Conservatives.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

!lemmysilver for a great summary.