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Originally Posted by Firebot
Canadians thought that an election in the middle of the pandemic was quite possibly the dumbest thing imaginable, and Trudeau ran quite a poor campaign while O'Toole ran a fantastic campaign promising some very centrist policies including a carbon tax policy, without resorting to attacks again Trudeau.
Then...Kenney and the Stampede happened...literally. Alberta was open for the summer despite the rising cases and alarming delta wave. The day after Alberta was forced to shut down hard, O'Toole was forced to answer for the CPC's poor pandemic response.
I visibly remember O'Toole's face as he was forced to answer questions that he had hoped to avoid. The polls shifted dramatically. Sep 3 2021 was the date, I remember it well because it impacted me significantly that weekend.
That was the wedge issue that finally stuck and broke the UCP, with Canadians being 80% vaccinated around that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinio...deral_election
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...t-3-and-oct-14
You can pretty much see the timeline and the change of opinions. |
Perhaps there is some truth to this timeline in the sense that it allowed O'Toole to trip over his own feet, but it's a little funny to claim something like 'Alberta pandemic response debacle tanks the Conservatives'...but said Conservatives won 30/34 seats in Alberta in that election - you know, the province most affected by said debacle.