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Matthew Christley's avatar

At what point will the establishment/moderate wing of the supposed centre-right recognise that the successes of Trump, Meloni and (hopefully, IMO) Restore, evidence that fence-sitting and trying to appease the legacy media is just going to guarantee more failures at the ballot boxe and more empowerment of the radical Left?

Adam Bibby's avatar

To what extent do you blame Trump's offensive comments in relation to Canadian nationhood for your loss? In both Canada and Australia perceived alignment to Trump ended up derailing promising right wing electoral campaigns.

TheBlues's avatar
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Like many I was surprised when Carney edged the election, and also like many believe Trudeau changed the face of Canada for ever. Carney seems to be edging towards a relationship with an out of touch and soon to be out the door "old Europe" via Brussels. When the resurgent right manifests power in Europe, especially vis-a-vis "remigration", where do you see Canada's direction?

curious2plus2's avatar

Simple one: what are you going to do differently now?

PAUL MARSHALL's avatar

Hi Pierre, when Trump is gone who will the left blame? will they ever stop the suicidal empathy and policies that are at best just bad ideas and at worst hostile to the population?

Zayphar's avatar

What are the structural problems with the voting system or districting that hurts the center-right and helps the left? I have heard this mentioned in passing but I am unclear on the details.

Bruce's avatar

Particularly in the period between the mid 1960s and 70s the powers that be were referred to by the long haired malcontent youths as The Establishment.

The Establishment was very conservative, battered into shape by the Depression and the War, in favor of censoring everything and making fun illegal.

It seems like the tables started turning in the late 1960s as the progessive political cause started gaining traction and things in many ways got better.

Unfortunately after achieving most of the sensible objectives the progressives couldn’t leave it there - they started on the batshit crazy stuff.

Ironically enough we now have a new woke establishment which in many ways resembles the old Establishment.

Arguably the 1960s Establishment was clobbered by the demographic dominance of the Baby Boomers.

That doesn’t apply this time round.

How is the rescue of our society from the destructive trajectory of wokeness going to happen - assuming it is going to happen?

Rebecca's avatar

What is one thing the world can learn from Canada and what is one political idea you would like to see brought to Canada from elsewhere?

Susan's avatar

Canadian listener here, Conservative voter. How will you deal with voters who have embraced "elbows up" and define being Canadian simply in opposition to the US?

Evan Riggs's avatar

What is the Canadian Conservative party's plan to stop the brain drain of all high skilled Canadians from fleeing to the US? The joke already is that Silicon Valley is just a wrapper for the University of Waterloo - so what benefit does Canada get when it spends capital educating its youngest generation only for them to move south for better opportunities and quality of life? How will the Canadian Conservative Party entice these individuals to return and build up the Canadian economy?

Tired Moderate's avatar

Trump's running commentary obviously angered a lot of Canadians. How much anti-American sentiment do you think will subside with a more diplomatic, post-Trump PM and how much is locked in until people die?