it's not an issue i lose sleep over
i never voted conservative in any of its forms eg (unless you're including the liberals)
my lowest point was voting for the communist party when i was 19 or 20 (chalk it up to dumb things you believe when you're a naive university student)
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Reform was the hard-right option in '97. Charest's PC were practically a centrist option to the Liberals (who were probably at their furthest right, economically) and I thought their foreign policy was more principled (although I can't remember what it was).
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:16 (seven years ago) link
I'd sooner reduce the voting age than raise it.
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
same
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Blah, sorry, brainfart. I don't know why I thought we were talking about voting ages rather than age eligible to run.
― jmm, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/vbbvqj/conservatives-finally-ditching-the-rebel-have-a-lot-to-answer-for
rats leaving the sinking ship over at the rebel.
legit concerned by the preponderance of MAGA chud types on canadian social media and below the line contributions at newspapers. these "mainstream" conservative voices only now deciding to distance themselves from such a vile and extreme publication shows the current state of canadian conservatism, the real depths it will sink to, and the almost imperceptibly infinitesimal distance between tories and the alt-right
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link
i'd rather they distance themselves a little too late than outright embrace it like south of the border.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
that being said, i remain extremely pessimistic as to how Quebec nationalist parties will distance themselves from the increasingly racist and xenophobic sections of the population.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
it might surprise you to learn some of the most important figures in quebec nationalism are pretty fuckin outspoken on this issue:http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/e9020f7c-0021-4659-a972-e2908ac6db6b%7C_0.html
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jean-francois-lisee-racism-immigration-burqas-1.3785382
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 17 August 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
though "systemic racism" aside, of course lisée's still on his party's fuckin anti-burqa tip
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 17 August 2017 00:02 (seven years ago) link
i still think there is a large degree of separation between PQ/Lisée/Drainville and organisations like Atalante Québec and lol La Fédération des Québécois de Souche (Federation of pure-bred Québécois, kid you not). i don't think the PQ are as openly xenophobic as those proper french alt-right organisations, nor do they live in the same sphere of politics. the same way John McCain and the american alt-right are not exactly the same battle. the question now is how influent one will try to be on the other in the coming elections, because yeah, PQ will use the white nationalism card for sure.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:23 (seven years ago) link
I c&p-ed the discussion to the 2017 thread: Canadian Politics 2017: I've Got a Pipeline Straight to the Heart of You
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
thanks sund4r!
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
My union joins in:
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-elementary-teachers-union-calls-for-renaming-john-a-macdonald-schools
I used to supply at one of the (what I take to be many) Sir John A.s occasionally.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
Moved it to the 2017 thread:
Canadian Politics 2017: I've Got a Pipeline Straight to the Heart of You
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 25 August 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link