Canada vote 2011
Canada vote 2011
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Canadians aren't stupid but to say they are informed is another matter. The best reason I've heard from conservative voters is that the Cons create jobs and are good for the economy... but really what it means is servicing large corporate and international industries. Its globalism, look what thats done to the third world.
Health care creates jobs and is good for the economy, education creates jobs and is good for the economy, small/medium business creates jobs and is better for the real economy that big companies. Vote left and you are supporting all these things in principle. The Liberals have become way too central for their own good and that is why they've failed.
- Were the Liberals ever really _that_ left-leaning besides Pearson and Trudeau, though?Continuity
- You're partly right, insofar as they became too central; i.e.: didn't stand for anything. They need to stake a position, and stick with it, not try to be everything for everyone.Continuity
- ... not try to be everything for everyone.Continuity
- they were supposed slightly left of central but that has become just centraleieio
- Ironically, if the Cons - over the course of many years - become too centrist, they'll go extinct, too.Continuity
- Liberals have typically been just left of center, and that's why it's good to have the third choice.ETM