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Originally Posted by MarchHare
They're a factor because many Canadians who normally would support the Liberals either don't like Dion or aren't comfortable voting for them again so soon after the Chretien-era scandals.
This should have meant an EASY majority for the Conservatives in both this election and the last one, but there's many voters in Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada who won't vote for a re-branded Reform Party. Swing votes that would have gone to the former Progressive Conservative Party are now going to the NDP or the Greens instead of the CPC.
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I understand this, but to me it doesn't make sense. You'd think the Liberals that dislike Dion would be the more right leaning ones, since Dion tends to be pretty left as far as Liberals go. As far as punishing the Liberals, why vote for the party that is most likely to get (back) into bed with them and prop up a Liberal minority government.
Frankly, I think it speaks poorly about the people of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes if they would rather vote for extreme fringe parties than for a party that reflects their views because the leader is Albertan and they merged with the Reform party. Its pretty petty and ignorant, it smacks of the same kind of deplorable POV that Chretien shouldn't have been elected because he looks funny due to a stroke.