ELECTION 2021 - Trudeau calls federal election

Now that the dust is settled I can't see why the NDP shouldn't go forward with:

1)Wealth tax on the obscenely rich.

2)Add dental to the Health act

3)NATIONAL Pharmacare.

We started with "tax the rich" and nothing got done, then we went to "tax the very rich", then "tax the extremely rich" and now it's "tax the insanely rich"... why have we been talking about this for years now and nothing's happening. Do they actually want us to dust off the guillotines? Because that's how we get the guillotines dusted.

The Liberals need a win and 10$ daycare ain't it. They need to get all in on the tax the rich and lead the parade rather than be ousted by a mob of pitchforks.

I still blame Toronto for going red, and I blame Quebec for the lunacy that is the Bloc. They shouldn't even be allowed to run federally, and Quebec voters need to use their heads at the polls instead of voting Bloc just because they can.

This is a never ending Canadian mess of epic proportions.

-J.

Metro Toronto will go full-NDP before it ever goes Conservative again. Those days where Toronto would alternate between Liberal and Conservative are comprehensively dead & buried.

The Conservatives are no longer a serious competitor in numerous areas where the old Red vs Blue rivalry prevailed. The Maritimes, Toronto, northern Ontario & Manitoba, and Vancouver don't want the Conservatives anymore, or at least not as they presently are. Maybe those voters would re-consider it if the old Progressive Conservatives would return. But they obviously want nothing to do with a Conservative party dominated by western Reform beliefs. The Conservatives better figure out what to do with themselves because none of those areas are going to go down the same route that Alberta & Saskatchewan did with becoming more right-wing and less moderate.

As much as we bemoan it, there is one thing we are clearly importing from the US and that is the urban/rural cleavage in political voting. The urban centres have become reliably liberal to one extent or another whereas rural Canada is solidly (but uniformly) conservative.

And the rurals are certainly not old progressive or moderate conservatives either. And, once again judging by the UCP example, the hard right is ending up dominating the alliance with the moderates. Calgary, Edmonton, and Regina might be willing to end up in the subordinate position in the alliance and let the rural/small-town element dominate the provincial and federal conservative parties. The problem for them though then becomes that every other major urban center in the country obviously isn't going to do the same thing.

I've given up on conservatives ever understanding that the anger that animates them on the prairies simply doesn't exist to the same extent in the rest of the country. They've deliberately reduced themselves to a perpetual opposition status by not getting it through their heads that the ROC simply doesn't care about what the rural conservatives in AB & SK are pissed off at in any given moment. It'll never change here either because it's developed into as much of a center-of-the-universe mentality as the one that's always existed in Toronto. There's no way out of this sort of impasse either, not when no one bothers to step outside of their own echo-chamber anymore.

The rural/urban split is as old as the hills. I see nothing new here.

What I do see is polarization. There used to be much more give and take and positions have hardened. We have always had this before but there would have been a variety of political pressure points that some serious horse trading could be had in order to get things done. Now, not so much.

This isn't a conservative issue, its a major party issue. The liberal refuse to share the cabinet with the NDP just as much as the pro-lifers and anti-vaxxers refuse to give ground on sanity. It's ideological and you can't reason with that.