The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.
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“Do you really want to allow the Liberal party to continue implementing radical woke leftists ideology?” said Pierre.
“Yes.” said the residents of Carleton.
This feels like an ugly breakup where one is finger pointing and spiraling into meth addiction while the other has improved themselves and is doing just fine.
Now fucking crush him and find out where his campaign money is being funneled from (hint, it’s Russia and the saudis).
Hey PP, good news! You don’t need to submit to a background check for a security clearance anymore!
Oddly enough I wouldn’t even call it a collapse.
Conservatives walked away with far more seats than they did in 2021.
Yes…it’s a collapse from what they were projected to win before JT stepped down. But more than anything it’s shown that it isn’t necessarily the Cons that we have a problem with, it’s the “Trump-Style” Conservatism that Poppinfresh tried to inject into the narrative. Rhetoric, slogans, hateful dogma, gaslighting the voters to think that everything is broken and that “they’re” the only ones who can fix it, etc…
It’s not a surprise that as soon as JT stepped down voters said “Oh thank god” because they could finally stop holding their nose and not have to vote for the one guy that they hated slightly less than Trudeau.
If Conservatives don’t oust him as leader after it’s plain as day that HE is the hated one, not them, then they’re stupid.
mainly immigration and housing, however, this is mostly conservative spin. they had a heavy hand in causing the whole crisis, by request to the federal government from con premiers (doug ford, pallister, etc) for immigrants specifically during covid. going so far as to fudge numbers of available and projected housing so they could get more money for immigrants from the fed, and use the immigrants to stagnate wages and drive up housing costs for their investment properties and builder buddies. then cons began spinning the fallout as a liberal ploy when people started getting angry about prices going up for everything.
the federal government does not have the power to force immigrants into a specific province, they can coerce them through incentives. which all of these “anti immigration” premiers, gleefully accepted.
he accomplished a lot during his decade. legalized pot, created a lot of jobs, pushed for equal rights, helped indigenous people through funding and infrastructure and social programs. its a long list. he mostly seemed to ignore the attacks from the cons and just kept his head down and focused on policy and political theater when he felt he had to.
he had a few controversies, but its nothing the cons havent done before and got away with in the past. people have short memories however, and they love american social media, and regular media, so it was a matter of time before a lot of young heads turned to the right. thankfully trump made such an ass out of himself and pierre took too many notes from him. so thats the reason he lost mainly. we didnt want kmart trump in power. and so a lot of those heads turned to the left again.
he was a good leader, for the most part. but no leader is without fault or controversy. i agree with his stances, but maybe not all of his methods. hes human.
He also ran on a promise of election reform, which be immediately reneged on basically as his first act after being elected.
“You either die as the hero or you live long enough to become the villain” is honestly more true than anyone realises.
Trudeau had been Prime Minister for a decade. At that length of time, general dissatisfaction and want of change becomes something that opponents can grab onto and start lobbying all kinds of blame at him for. Some warranted, some not.
JT is one of the useless neoliberals like Macron or Biden who is more interested in maintaining the status quo and insisting that everything is working fine. Everyone and their mother can tell that our societies are on the verge of collapse and are ready for fundamental change. Most aren’t too fussy about what that change actually is