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Originally Posted by SebC
Are the BC Liberals really more conservative than the Alberta conservatives? If so, how?
(As I recently moved to BC, it would be good for me to learn this stuff.)
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Yeah, I think he's got it a bit backwards.
Like someone else said,the Albertan perspective on what is centrist different from the rest of the country.
What separates bc and Alberta conservatives is the social commentary. The bc libs are the same kind political factioning that the ucp just went through, a loose coalition of anyone but NDP, except the BC Libs learned early on that they didn't stand a chance if social conservatism was even perceived to be a component of the party.
Alberta is significantly more tolerant of the kind of social conservative brand but that support is waning considerably and the ucp is likely to find that out in the next election in my opinion.
Things like opposition to GSAs isn't anywhere on the political radar here, but it's treated like a serious issue in Alberta.
The reason centrist parties in Alberta dont really gain much traction is because the people if Alberta don't
really want a centrist option. The NDP have had to adopt the centrist position to get a sniff of power, and now 70% of the province apparently doesn't like their centrist governing.
The Alberta provincial NDP is a pretty centrist government. They are seriously out of step with every other provincial NDP party and diverge substantially from their Federal counterparts as well but because notley and crew actually want to govern they have been forced to adopt policy positions that are often anathema to their NDP peers.
The bc ndp for example are significantly more centrist as a party than they have been in recent years and can barely coexist with their Albertan counter parts.