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Originally Posted by La Flames Fan

A few folks in here talking about how on earth they could want Trudeau, the conservative platform doesn’t align with 60% to 65% of the country. Liberals, NDP, Greens, Bloc...all Left or Centre Left.



Andrew Coyne put it pretty well I think, if the conservatives don’t start looking past its base, it will have a hard time winning. Alberta is a shoe-in, Sask is a shoe in, but to win you need to start appealing to more than just the base. There’s a bubble in Alberta, outside of it nobody really cares about the oil patch.



People care about climate change, LGTBQ rights, abortion rights, fair taxes for the middle class, less tax breaks for big business, yet the conservative platform cling to those ideas. That’s not going to fly with the left/Centre left, so you won’t get those votes.

If the conservatives came out with a platform that did something about climate change, unequivocally supported LGBTQ and practiced responsible spending AND taxation (because they are a necessary evil) they would win. But they don’t.