The Liberal Party of Canada is imploding in real time

[ever_reaching]

See my letter to the Prime Minister below // Veuillez trouver ma lettre au Premier ministre ci-dessous pic.twitter.com/NMMMcXUh7A
- Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) December 16, 2024
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's resignation letter.Did cancelling your Disney+ subscription not balance the books quite like you'd hoped? Are you also one of those

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[anterrabre]

I'm not Canadian and unsure what your Liberal Party is like but A+ at this writeup OP; I was entertained!

[yami_no_hoshi]

they've been in power for 9 years, they're very centrist

[ever_reaching]

😂 thank you, bb! I was trying to make it understandable/interesting for non-Canadians as well. We have three main parties in Canada: the Liberals, the Conservatives, and the New Democrats (NDP). On paper, the Liberals are our mainstream left party (in contrast to the NDP, which is our quasi-socialist party/party to the left of the Liberals); in practice, however, the Liberals are really just to the left of the Conservatives, meaning they actually end up in the centre most of the time, rather than on the actual left.

TL;DR - on paper:

NDP - Liberals - CENTRE - Conservatives

In practice, however, you get situations like this:

NDP - CENTRE - Liberals - Conservatives

[hallyujah]

It's more like:

Conservatives - Right/increasingly Far-Right (becoming more GOP-like by the day)

Liberals - Centre-Left/Centre Establishment Dems (think Biden/Obama)

NDP - Left/Social Democrats (think Bernie/AOC)

Bloc - Quebec separatists (left on most issues mixed with a shit ton of xenophobia. Officially secularist but use that as an excuse to discriminate against religious minorities from wearing their garb meanwhile Quebec's national assembly is chock full of Catholic imagery lol)

Green - irrelevant leftist party, kinda weird in how they're run/organized. Environmental focus but have full party platform. Despite focus, sometimes the NDP have better climate change policies so idk.

[afeelingunacted]

I was waiting till the roundup to talk about this, I can't believe someone just made a post about it.

Laughing to stop from crying. Trudeau is fucked. I admire Chrystia Freeland brazenly shanking Trudeau in the face on the way out. I always thought she would be a future PM and this shows she could do it. They were so closely aligned only a split like this would secure her future.

Literally I don't care about a party imploding except we all know the Conservatives will win and Pierre Polievre is a deranged nitwit who cozies up to Nazis.

Also I'm sad we're not getting our bribe cheques. The only thing stupider than announcing them is announcing them and then yanking them back.

[ashtrayrock]

Not enough people on the other side like her unfortunately. She's got the balls to tackle the job, but wouldn't sway voters from other parties. I don't think anyone really could in the current liberal party.

[fauxkaren]

the Conservatives will win and Pierre Polievre is a deranged nitwit who cozies up to Nazis.

Sounds like he and Trump are a match made in heaven! The US/Canada relationship will be stronger than ever, I guess. lmao.

Good lord, everything is terrible.

[better2beloved]

This was our worst case scenario, Trump winning in the US and Pierre’s inevitable win here soon. Both of them are fascist. It’s going to be very chaotic

[ashtrayrock]

I can't believe we're going to be stuck with Pierre fucking Poilievre, probably sooner rather than later.

Also can't believe Doug Ford is actually speaking logic with wanting to push back against tariffs, and not surprised at all at Danielle Smith just rolling over and taking it. She'd sell us off to Trump if she could.

[afeelingunacted]

When Trudeau goes Ford will be among the longest standing provincial Premiers, and one of the ones who governed through the Trump years.

We can't count on him to be a leader though, he'll sell us out too.

[ashtrayrock]

What a sad state we're in that Ford is the long term one lol.

Canada is sorely lacking in any real leadership at any level though let's be real.

[iznanassi]

[afeelingunacted]

Also if anyone is happy about this current polling says Cons would win a massive majority, Libs would still be in second and bloc (not even NDP!!!) would be third.

Between Trump and Polievre North America is about to enter a conservative hellscape.

[hallyujah]

I mean NDP usually finish behind the Bloc in seat count so that's not surprising. The real question is if the Liberals can even hold onto the Official Opposition. If the Bloc win close to 60 seats in Quebec and the Libs can't even win ridings like my former one (Toronto-St. Paul's) while being basically shut out in the west they could return to 3rd party status once again.

[vanilla_09]

The Bloc and NPD are actually pretty close in QC so I don't think Bloc is going to do all of that. I really think if the NPD plays their cards right in Qc they might do a better job since they've been slowly gaining more seats in the last few years. It's the Conservatives that are freaking me out because there are a lot of Anglos who are pro Trump, anti-francophone, anti-immigrant etc, etc. and very connected financially.

[hallyujah]

I'm a little confused because they're not close in Quebec polling at all? The last poll had the Bloc at 32%, the NDP at 11% (IPSOS). Leger, the best Canadian polling firm, had the Bloc at 35% to the NDP's 11%.

Also they haven't been gaining seats in QC lately. They went from 59 seats in 2011 to 16 in 2015 to 1 in 2019 and 1 in 2021. I think Boulerice is still their only Quebec MP. Maybe they've been doing better in Federal by-elections there but that's owing more to Liberal weakness and they still haven't been winning. Idk 11-14% in the polling is not optimistic. They'll never vote for a kirpan-wearing leader in Singh.

[fernandocolunga]

Omg Jordan Peterson was right! Poor baby I’m glad he made it to the totally functional US of A before this shitstorm went down thots n prayers