BC’s election is Saturday. It looks like the NDP and the resuscitated Conservatives will likely roughly tie in PV but with Canada being Canada it’s hard to say how the actual seat distribution shakes out in such a case. May be looking at another confidence government with Greens. Canadians on another site I frequent think the Cons need m…
BC’s election is Saturday. It looks like the NDP and the resuscitated Conservatives will likely roughly tie in PV but with Canada being Canada it’s hard to say how the actual seat distribution shakes out in such a case. May be looking at another confidence government with Greens. Canadians on another site I frequent think the Cons need much better than a PV tie in the mid-40s to form a minority gov let alone a majority but it’s a tight race. I was in Vancouver over the weekend and tons of ads on TV trying to portray BC Premier Dave Eby as a Trudeau clone, though Eby seems way more competent than JT. Con leader Rustad is a nut job who wouldn’t be out of place in the Idaho GOP so he may be a tough sell to the Lower Mainland’s electorate
And to think that until recently the BC Conservative Party was the BC Liberal Party, although like the Australian Liberal Party they were and are right wing. The question is should the BC NDP lose government would they suddenly rebrand themselves as the BC Liberal Party or would that be counterproductive given the Liberal Party of Canada will lose government next year, barring sudden changes in federal politics?
To make a united from of the Canadian left. Canada like the UK and unlike Australia and New Zealand retains their First Past The Post electoral system at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The big test is will the Liberal Party fall into 3rd party status as it did in 2011 or just a weak second?
BC’s election is Saturday. It looks like the NDP and the resuscitated Conservatives will likely roughly tie in PV but with Canada being Canada it’s hard to say how the actual seat distribution shakes out in such a case. May be looking at another confidence government with Greens. Canadians on another site I frequent think the Cons need much better than a PV tie in the mid-40s to form a minority gov let alone a majority but it’s a tight race. I was in Vancouver over the weekend and tons of ads on TV trying to portray BC Premier Dave Eby as a Trudeau clone, though Eby seems way more competent than JT. Con leader Rustad is a nut job who wouldn’t be out of place in the Idaho GOP so he may be a tough sell to the Lower Mainland’s electorate
And to think that until recently the BC Conservative Party was the BC Liberal Party, although like the Australian Liberal Party they were and are right wing. The question is should the BC NDP lose government would they suddenly rebrand themselves as the BC Liberal Party or would that be counterproductive given the Liberal Party of Canada will lose government next year, barring sudden changes in federal politics?
The latter. Why would they want to do anything except keep the NDP label?
To make a united from of the Canadian left. Canada like the UK and unlike Australia and New Zealand retains their First Past The Post electoral system at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The big test is will the Liberal Party fall into 3rd party status as it did in 2011 or just a weak second?
Did you mean "united front"?
yes I do.
Don't they still have the option to agree on an electoral alliance with the Liberals if that makes political sense?
Technically yes. The question is who would be the senior partner though?
Or whether the Liberals would agree to that. But the same thing would effectively be true for a merger.