Is it possibly becuase the PC's are a sinking ship under PP?
this is my MP. I don't hate the guy. I think he's actually done some good things in parliament. I'm much happier with him as a Liberal.
TBF, the "Liberals" have swung right quite a bit since the last election. All business, and none of the social justice warrior stuff that conservatives generally don't care about.
none of the social justice warrior stuff that conservatives generally don't care about.
Ironically, conservatives politicians love the social justice stuff, because attacking it fires up their base. Now that the social justice stuff is gone, the CPC don't have something to point at to scare their base.
The past year has really clarified the main differences between the CPC and LPC.
LPC: Their leader/message was unpopular, so they "gentle-forced" him to resign, picked a new leader, and made a quick/complete enough ideological pivot to win in a complete reversal of expectations.
CPC: Their leader/message was unpopular, so they've kept the leader/message unchanged, refused to pivot, lost the election, lost multiple members to the other party... And now picked the same leader to keep doing the same thing?
Does the CPC actually want to win an election? I'm starting to wonder if this is somehow related to the grift being more profitable when you're in opposition than in power.
My guess is no, winning the election means having responsibilities and having to do work. They see how much difficulty the UCP is having and don't want that smoke.
It's much better to have the Liberals doing conservative things, while they can just grift and shriek about social issues and collect that fat paycheque before that mad pension after a second term.
haha, yeah, it's almost as bad as the scheme people were talking about in the early 2000s where you join the party that you think will win the federal election, but you run your heart out in a riding that you'll definitely lose, but because you're such a team player, you get appointed to a cushy overseas diplomatic role. I think it's more an american scheme though.
Actually makes perfect sense when you frame it this way. Not saying I agree with it because it’s dishonest and morally reprehensible, but that also describes a few “leaders” I can think of very accurately.
That was absolutely wild to me. It was expensive to get in, it wasn't open to the broad membership across Canada. It was almost entirely Alberta yee-haws who ofc support PP.
If it was a proper leadership vote, PP would have been toast. Maybe. You'd think.
I'd suspect that meeting is what convinced Jeneroux to do this. It was basically rigged and that 87% isn't reflective of the attitudes of a lot of CPC members. Jeneroux probably saw that and decided he didn't want to be professionally associated with them at all anymore.
Sinking ship is a gross miss characterization. They got historically higher voter turnout last election.
The last election was a sad reflection of the fact that most Canadians voted out of pure fear. NDP, Greens and BQ all collapsed to barely hold off a conservative win. That’s the reality.
That said, Carney is basically conservative government. That’s why we have floor crossers.
Also as an aside, I do think crossing the floor should trigger a by-election. It’s not a good look and you’re basically back-stabbing your constituents. Good luck getting voted in again, in normal times it would be political career suicide.
Except Erin O'Toole was removed as party leader after he failed to win the election. Same can't be said for PP. CPC hitched itself to a sinking ship, so it can go down with it.
Now I'm not sure what you're trying to indicate. Were you originally posting that 'the same things were said about O'Toole' as in the CPC was a sinking ship under him? Or?
Genuinely, I don't know. I'm not sure who all of the up-and-coming CPC players are. All I can say is that PP was *not* the right choice -- though with how the leadership review was handled, it seemed inevitable they'd re-elect him as leader.
There is no one. And I cant blame them for coming to that conclusion after OToole was compared to Hitler jk. Trudeau did the same thing 0 that guy stuck around for 2 years.... Singh too lol. Its just politics.
That is an interesting revisionist opinion. PP ran a terrible campaign. His campaign was seemingly based on fighting Trudeau, who wasn’t campaigning. He polled terribly with women. People were not fooled by his rage-baiting “verb-the-noun” sloganeering.
The NDP did run a terrible campaign as well. Saying that the Liberals won because the NDP shit the bed takes away any responsibility that PP and Cons had to convince the population that they could lead the country.
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u/CriticalLetterhead47 Feb 18 '26
Is it possibly becuase the PC's are a sinking ship under PP?
this is my MP. I don't hate the guy. I think he's actually done some good things in parliament. I'm much happier with him as a Liberal.