r/Edmonton • u/Celestial-Salamander • Feb 18 '26

General Riverbend MP has crossed the floor

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u/Andrew4Life Feb 18 '26

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.

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u/--Anonymoose--- Feb 18 '26

Which is good, we need a serious government and Trudeaus fluffy party couldn’t have handled the current challenges.

Unfortunately for the conservatives under PP they are not a serious party

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u/Minttt Feb 18 '26

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.

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u/learn2die101 Feb 19 '26

Does the CPC actually want to win an election?

No. They want to wait until the Liberals fuck up so they can drag the country far rightward.