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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
If I was running the Conservatives federally I would make this the last election where you don't have a real climate change policy. That might work with Alberta/Saskatchewan but it won't play in the big population centres in Ontario/Quebec.
I think they misread that Doug Ford won in Ontario because people just wanted the Liberals out, not because of his anti-carbon tax/climate plan rhetoric.
Climate change is going to quickly become another abortion/gay marriage issue where the Conservatives will need to buy in and at least give some semblance of plan.
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I visited Toronto recently, while the climate strike was going on. School was closed to have kids out with signs all over the city, with all cars honking. People in cities are extremely passionate about climate change, and whether rightly or wrongly, oil has been the easy target.
Ontario as a province also has a tendency to vote out parties as soon as they are unpopular and are very reactionary. From PC Davis / Miller to Liberals under Petterson to NDP Bob Ray, to PC Harris, to Liberal McGuinty / Wynne to PC Doug Ford.
Conservatives need to wake up and drop anything even remotely looking like morality and religious social ideas. Liberals of today are far more left than Chretien's Liberals, but the Conservative went further right with Scheer. Conservatives need to back to the Harper center right, and even go a bit more left than they may be used to. I am definitely fiscally conservative, but I cannot stand the social side of the party.
Climate change should not be about destroying Canada's economy and industries without real alternatives (that both the NDP and Green party want to do), but there are still things that can be done. Conservative should jump on this and build a plan and not just dismiss the whole premise of climate change (and I have my views on it), it's just not a winning strategy in today's environment.