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[–]slushpilot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Canadian Conservatives are weak and ineffectual, same as the US Republican party right now, I think. The same kinds of woke ideological tricks are being used against them to the point that they also have to deny common sense and go along with everything to not be labeled as bigots.

Absolutely zero principles. It probably will take a nutjob like Trump to break through—unfortunately.

The only ones vocally standing up to it within the Conservative party are the more Christian-family-values, more hard-right types like Derek Sloan and fringe parties with other unpalatable views like Maxime Bernier's People's Party that splintered off from the Conservatives. These people are too edgy to be electable and will not make a difference.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The last time I was in Canada it was Alberta and they seemed pretty conservative to me (it was decades ago though) - the Canadians I met there just didn't seem like the type who would worry about political correctness at all. They reminded me of Americans from the US West, by which I mean the Southwest and states like Nevada, Montana and Idaho, not the coastal West.

So these types of "Don't Tread On Me" Canadians have also been silenced by the threat of cancellation? What a shame.

And I agree that it will probably take a brazen loudmouth like Trump for these Canadians to feel comfortable about speaking up again. Again, a shame.