Could it? Yes, absolutely, Americanizing politics is definitely happening (though not nearly to the degree of the US clusterfuck). Will it? Depends on a lot of things. Parties collapse, splinter, reform and shift fairly regularly in Canada at the provincial and federal level.
The Wild Rose was a party in Alberta that had 25% of the seats …
Could it? Yes, absolutely, Americanizing politics is definitely happening (though not nearly to the degree of the US clusterfuck). Will it? Depends on a lot of things. Parties collapse, splinter, reform and shift fairly regularly in Canada at the provincial and federal level.
The Wild Rose was a party in Alberta that had 25% of the seats provincially in 2015, but now it doesn’t exist. The centre-right party BC Liberals, changed their name to BC United in 2023 and BC Conservatives in 2024. Federally the PPC party didn’t exist in 2015, formed in 2018 (think MAGA) and got 5% of the vote (but 0 seats) in 2019. It’s way more fluid in Canada than any set partisan loyalty.
But the main reason the other left party vote (NDP, Green, BQ) vote has collapsed this election is to stop Poilievre from becoming prime minister and to give Carney a strong mandate to take on the bully in the White House. Strategic voting is extremely common and those voters change their preferences from election to election.
Could it? Yes, absolutely, Americanizing politics is definitely happening (though not nearly to the degree of the US clusterfuck). Will it? Depends on a lot of things. Parties collapse, splinter, reform and shift fairly regularly in Canada at the provincial and federal level.
The Wild Rose was a party in Alberta that had 25% of the seats provincially in 2015, but now it doesn’t exist. The centre-right party BC Liberals, changed their name to BC United in 2023 and BC Conservatives in 2024. Federally the PPC party didn’t exist in 2015, formed in 2018 (think MAGA) and got 5% of the vote (but 0 seats) in 2019. It’s way more fluid in Canada than any set partisan loyalty.
But the main reason the other left party vote (NDP, Green, BQ) vote has collapsed this election is to stop Poilievre from becoming prime minister and to give Carney a strong mandate to take on the bully in the White House. Strategic voting is extremely common and those voters change their preferences from election to election.