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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
I'd say they're more approaching unicorn status, being fiscal conservatives and social liberals. Virtually everyone I've talked to over the last 20 years have said that's the platform they'd want from any federal government, so if Carney can follow through on it he might be looking at some record approval levels. If he can somehow get rid of that stupid gun buyback money pit he'll be nearly untouchable
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Apparently we are told by some of the more fringe posters here that fiscal conservatives while socially liberal cannot exist. That the radical center is a myth. People wishing for such to occur (from any party) are really just MAGA hat wearers because they didn't accept the trainwreck from a Trudeau-Singh led coalition.
A year ago we had a finance minister quit due to a PM that wouldn't listen (while herself claiming Canadians are experiencing a "vibecession" no less and it's all in their heads), a GST holiday while running crippling deficits, a carbon tax that was set to rise to 95$ per tonne despite a cost of living crisis.
Yet here we are, a year after, and you have activist lunatics like Guillbault ragequit over a memorandum signed with Alberta. Carbon tax is gone. Provinces singing harmoniously together where a PM is actively listening versus telling them how to run their province. Bill C-69 may be significantly altered or removed. Infrastructure spending plan (versus being told we no longer need new roads). Austerity measures with a budget that doesn't treat Canadians like children. Significant cutting of public service. All of this without ideologically pandering and preaching while doing it and telling Canadians how they should feel.
If you were to ask me that we get all of this a year ago in the future, especially considering what's happening down south, I'd be ecstatic. And I am ecstatic today.
That we ended up getting it from Carney / Liberals instead of the CPC doesn't matter to me, especially knowing that had the CPC win under Poilievre, we would have gotten some really boneheaded grifts along with several of these. Heck, Carney seems to be disenchanted with the waste that is the ideotic gun buyback program, and I expect it will die a quiet death sometime soon.
And that folks come in the thread to point and laugh about this frankly salvaged situation for most Canadians while their own party that best matches their views and support is down to 6% in the polls and fall into complete obscurity and relevance is the icing on the cake.