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Originally Posted by Flash Walken

The reality is that they wouldn't govern with that kind of appeal anyway because the socially regressive contingent would abandon the party and you'd be back to the 90s with 2 separate, viable 'conservative' parties.



If national and provincial politics of the last 30 years has taught us anything it's that Canadians will not support economic conservatism or social conservatism with any kind of majority, but if given the choice between the two, will absolutely, overwhelmingly, abandon social conservatism. For either to get representation, they have to amalgamate. Wild Rose and PC, Reform/Alliance.



With climate change an increasingly important social issue, that is going to continue to plague any party that doesn't have a platform to actively address it.



Andrew Scheer didn't go to a pride parade because he's personally offended by the gays,. He didn't go to a pride parade because their own internal polling shows it would be disastrous for turnout momentum and would probably split 50-60 percent of the vote from the party.



Then you'd be back to the bad old days when the country would vote a liberal majority with Joe Clark PCs as their second choice and the lowly prairie bigot party battling it out with union socialists and the bloc.

This is what baffles me, why cater to the far right? Who the hell else are they going to vote for?