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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Sure, but they've formed government in all four western provinces. For such a conservative stronghold, the NDP does quite well. And regularly.
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There are different flavours of conservatism. The prairie populism that spawned the NDP has historically been very anti banks, anti corporate, pro working class. Those values aren’t incompatible with the traditional federal PC platforms of social conservatism and blaming the Eastern Canadian establishment for all the West’s problems.