Perhaps Canada’s biggest political parlor trick of all occurred with the Liberal Party’s appointment of Mark Carney as its leader going into the snap election to be held on April 28. With that move, win or lose, the Liberal Party definitely cut its losses from whatever else might have been expected under Trudeau against a growing Conservative support.
To most on the Right, Carney is seen as being utterly toxic to Canada and while this is undoubtedly true, Carney has recaptured the votes of many disillusioned-by-Trudeau Liberal supporters. Simultaneously, his ‘toxic’ presence has also succeeded in once again persuading relatively principled voters on the Right to abandon their own professed principles.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than with those struggling with the choice of voting for Pierre Poilievre (CPC) or Maxime Bernier (PPC). By voting for Bernier they believe they are ‘wasting their vote’ in the effort to counter Carney, but by voting for Poilievre, they know they are voting for the ‘lesser evil’ between the two leading electoral contenders. And that’s exactly what most do.
Why do they do this? – in order to deal with a ‘crisis’ – the one manufactured by their opponents on the Left. It’s a political parlor trick, and until those on the Right quit falling for it, our political journey will continue to be one headed Leftward, towards the tyranny so idealized by the Left. Continue reading »