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I wish I had a Liberal MP to hold feet to the fire.
Alas, being in Alberta, I have a Poilievre-loving knee-jerk sycophant Conservative who is scared of his constituents. (Len Webber)
Since my vote matters NOT AT ALL (Thanks to the complete lack of promised electoral reform), I suspect I'll be voting Green in the next election.
The only way I'll ever vote Liberal is if my riding is in a tight race between the Liberal and Conservative candidates.
I've always voted Green or NDP, depending on who's fielding the better candidate in my area, and will continue to do so. The Libs lost any chance at my support after immediately backpedaling on "2015 will be the last federal election under first-past-the-post" the second they got into office.
None of this changes the fact the for many of us it s a binary choice: elect the bad party or accept the worst. Neither the orange nor the green has a chance, although orange does very well with a minority.
Liberals promise everything and deliver a quarter. Conservatives promise everything and keep it for themselves. Canada should see what the NDP can do.
100% me too. I'm lucky enough to live in an NDP vs Green riding so I've never had to vote for a status quo bullshit party, but that election promise reneg went straight into the Big Book of Grudges.
Do you know about Fairvote Canada?
I hope the Greens make a comeback. They were the "can't vote for any of these other charlatans" party of my youth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As MPs prepare to return to their ridings for the summer, some Liberals are acknowledging that they may be facing unhappy constituents, while others insist they aren't focused on the party's grim poll numbers.
Ipsos, Angus Reid and Abacus all released surveys this week that suggest the opposition Conservatives have a 20-point lead over the governing party.
When asked what the Liberals could do to turn their polling numbers around over the summer, House leader Steve MacKinnon offered a gardening metaphor.
Quebec MP Anthony Housefather considered leaving the party earlier this spring over the caucus's support for an NDP motion on Palestinian statehood.
In an exclusive interview with CBC News Network's Power and Politics on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the polls shouldn't matter until an election campaign starts.
Polling expert Philippe Fournier of 338Canada told Power & Politics earlier this month that despite the Liberals' strong results in 2021 — when Bennett won over half of the vote — there is a risk they might lose the riding in the byelection.
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