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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The party needs a new leader. She's not a lot different from O'Toole and Scheer in that her opponent was practically handing her the election and she just couldn't make herself a compelling enough of an alternative. The NDP has made some ground but I would expect diminishing returns from now on as long as they continue to trot Rachel out as their leader.
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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Canadian political landscape, and O'Toole's speech the other day highlighted why.
For the general voters of Canada to support the conservative party, the conservative party needs to loudly and fundamentally distance itself from the fringe that it has courted since it mated with the alliance. Harper was able to win because he loudly stated that they would focus only on economics, and as soon as the tide turned from within towards more socially regressive policies the party lost. He was only able to even form a minority for the first two attempts.
O'Toole and Scheer both failed to repudiate the flank enough. The general public has largely shown to be willing to deal with corruption or inexperience over socially regressive policy. That's why even now the cons are making such weak gains federally while most of the Lib loss is flowing to NDP.
I do think we will see conservatives form government in the next two federal elections, but I would bet Pollievre isn't the one who's going to do it. It also depends on if the Liberals do an about face and purge some of the obvious corruption. They're always able to buy more favor, it seems.