mr_trudo (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mr_trudo) wrote, |
Re: How Canada's 4th place party will never win
Canada has a left and right but it also has it's "niceness", meaning reaching a compromise between the two as to avoid conflict as much as possible. Conflict being the reason most people are in Canada in the first place. This examples the Liberal Party as an unsual centrist governing party as well as it's strong new Canadian and immigrant base.
The federal NDP seemed to take the equavalent of the British Liberals, never forming government in 45 years but being very influential in keeping the left up and the right down. They have had success provincially hold consecutive governments, official oppositions and balance of power on many occassions. Discounting the NDP would mean ignoring the effect that the Reform Party and the Bloc/PQ, which have and never will form in a federal governemnt, have had on Canada being massive 1990s tax cuts and a lack of federal energy and environment intervention for Reform and two soverignity referenums and it's prodominance often as a national issue for the Bloc. They are a force that competes with the Liberals in votes which would otherwise turn the Liberals more into the US political system of liberal versus conservative parties, two parties that seem completely foreign to the Canadian political landscape on so many issues despite our countries being so similar and beside each other.
As for Canada being very liberal in the European sense of the word, times change and so do countries. There was once a time when Europeans feld war and poverty to live in an equitable and peaceful America. How the tables have turned. In my lifetime (all 22 years), Latin America has gone from a failed statist development system, to a US-style free market, to now trying to model the European social democracy.
Canada has a left and right but it also has it's "niceness", meaning reaching a compromise between the two as to avoid conflict as much as possible. Conflict being the reason most people are in Canada in the first place. This examples the Liberal Party as an unsual centrist governing party as well as it's strong new Canadian and immigrant base.
The federal NDP seemed to take the equavalent of the British Liberals, never forming government in 45 years but being very influential in keeping the left up and the right down. They have had success provincially hold consecutive governments, official oppositions and balance of power on many occassions. Discounting the NDP would mean ignoring the effect that the Reform Party and the Bloc/PQ, which have and never will form in a federal governemnt, have had on Canada being massive 1990s tax cuts and a lack of federal energy and environment intervention for Reform and two soverignity referenums and it's prodominance often as a national issue for the Bloc. They are a force that competes with the Liberals in votes which would otherwise turn the Liberals more into the US political system of liberal versus conservative parties, two parties that seem completely foreign to the Canadian political landscape on so many issues despite our countries being so similar and beside each other.
As for Canada being very liberal in the European sense of the word, times change and so do countries. There was once a time when Europeans feld war and poverty to live in an equitable and peaceful America. How the tables have turned. In my lifetime (all 22 years), Latin America has gone from a failed statist development system, to a US-style free market, to now trying to model the European social democracy.
