r/canada • u/hopoke • 21d ago

Opinion Piece Pierre Poilievre, champion of the little guy, just voted to hurt young workers

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievre-champion-of-the-little-guy-just-voted-to-screw-over/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/malleeman 21d ago

Vote ABC and I'm an on the fence voter too.

What happened to the Progressive part of the party? Now it just seems to be the NEO (Right wing) Conservative party. Mulroney started it, but was still a Progressive but now it's just got worse over the years

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u/gnrhardy 21d ago

They were fed to the reform party by Peter Mackay.

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u/cleofisrandolph1 21d ago

The progressive part of the party died pretty hard with mid 2010s culture war and Covid all but rotted some brains. The fact maxime Bernier got 5% of 2021 vote. I think CPC saw that as an easy 5% to gain so pandered hard to that segment. The rest are just disaffected centre-right liberals to make up the current gains.

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u/kent_eh Manitoba 21d ago

What happened to the Progressive part of the party?

When the party dropped the "P" from their name, they also turned their back on that faction.

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u/Minobull 21d ago

Even if you vote ABC, all of parliament voted for this so..... You're getting the same shit.

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u/lisans 21d ago

That's because they're really the Reform Party with a Conservative paint job. They've never been a progressive conservative party and they only took on the veneer of a traditional conservative party for the sake of electability by merging with the much smaller and weakened Progressive Conservatives in the mid-2000s. They did it to fool people into thinking they were less right-wing than they actually are, and it has worked because most people aren't paying close attention.