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Originally Posted by Yikes
NDP, Liberal, Conservative...it seems that all parties at the Federal level kind of end of migrating to the middle. I believe that the social values of voting populace pushes all in that direction. Provincial parties lean this way as well, I can almost guarantee that all that spews out of Smith's non filtered mouth will be walked back with little or zero change to the programs/policies/laws she attacks. Ditto for all of the talking heads in Ottawa. As mentioned before, any party that makes a concerted effort to unravel significant portions of the Canadian safety net is pretty much committing political suicide.
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Honestly, I don't think that has happened either federally or provincially over the past decade. Instead, governments get elected and tend to have a "we have a mandate" line. The Trudeau Liberals have moved more left, if anything, and the provincial parties in Alberta haven't moved toward the center for their respective parties. I feel like this how people think it should work, but in practice it doesn't seem to be the case.