• @Thrillhouse@lemmy.world
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    955 months ago

    Canada’s about to elect our own right wing version of Trump. So if you’re looking to escape that by moving here… don’t be too optimistic.

    BC almost went conservative provincially in the last election. Alberta and Saskatchewan are batshit insane conservative. Manitoba used to be but they’ve gone centre left. Ontario conservative corporate. Quebec… I’m not going to touch that one. And then the east which I don’t have a ton of feedback on personally.

    • Pasta Dental
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      255 months ago

      Québec: the only province expected to NOT vote conservative in the next federal elections. Also the province expected to vote for a center-left government for the next provincial elections. But go on I guess…

      • idunnololz
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        35 months ago

        I like Quebec but it is preferred to learn French (I am horrible at spoken languages, I’m having enough trouble with English let alone another language) and I don’t like their secession movement.

    • @jasep@lemmy.world
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      195 months ago

      The east coast has some very affordable housing especially compared to Ontario and BC. For example, there are suburbs or small towns within 30 minutes or less from Moncton and Halifax. Gives access to city resources without having to live in the city.

    • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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      145 months ago

      That Pierre Poilievre is such a walking red flag. The way he talks down to journalists is very telling of his personality. Dude rolls his sleeves up and smiles in ads but he’s unhinged

    • DominusOfMegadeusOP
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      105 months ago

      Interestingly, all of my heritage on my mother’s side is French Canadian. Unfortunately, the last one born there, according to the family history I could find was prior to 1900, so that probably doesn’t really help me much at all.

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        85 months ago

        There was a huge exodus at the time with French education becoming illegal in some provinces and French Canadians not being allowed to work (similar to what happened to the Irish), my grandfather learned he was born in the USA when he got his passport at 65 y.o., his parents just came back while he was an infant and they never talked about the years they had spent in the USA to work.

    • DominusOfMegadeusOP
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      75 months ago

      There’s right wing and then there’s MAGA. Have you read up on Project 2025? Is abortion legal in Canada?

      • @rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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        125 months ago

        Pollievre is a snivelling rat man, but anyone who claims he’s equivalent to Trump needs to turn off their screens

        • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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          85 months ago

          He is, but the same forces that are pushing project2025 and are puppetering Trump are also active in the CPC.

        • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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          55 months ago

          You’re talking about the guy who said he’d use the notwithstanding clause? Sure, maybe you like the idea of longer sentences for criminals, but I would still question whether you should love that more than respecting the constitution.

      • @Thrillhouse@lemmy.world
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        Hah for now it is….

        You also have Danielle Smith (Alberta Premier) cozying up to Tucker Carlson, Poilievre (National Conservative Party leader) and the convoy, India and Russia.

        And GOP operatives who coincidentally, I’m sure, also supported the convoy.

        Canadian right wing influencers caught up in the Russian payment scandal.

        I don’t believe for a second that Pierre and elements of the federal conservative party wouldn’t want to get rid of our rights in Canada. It’s just unpopular to say that part out loud.

        • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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          45 months ago

          I mean, Pierre already said he’s going after porn, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

      • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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        25 months ago

        Accessible abortion rights will almost certainly be back on the chopping block next election.

        I don’t think we’ll have it nearly as bad as America because our political system works a bit differently but the conservative leader/party definitely have the hallmarks of trumpism with white nationalism, climate change denying, anti-women and anti-trans issues. They’re going to play the same “we’re better for the economy” game as well.

    • @Chronic_AllTheThings@lemmy.ca
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      15 months ago

      Manitoba always gets political whiplash every few election cycles. Fortunately, we just entered the NDP cycle after almost a decade of PC horrors.

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      Quebec… I’m not going to touch that one.

      Yeah you should have just not mentioned it and not replied a second time instead of telling lies.