We’re All Red Tories

Thomas Walkom, The Toronto Star | Full Story | “The colour of the centre has shifted from red to blue,” think-tank head and former Reform Party chief Preston Manning declared.

His poll appears to jibe with the continued success of Harper’s Conservatives who, although twice unable to capture a majority of Commons seats, have at least won the country’s grudging acceptance.

And its implicit lesson for both the Liberals and the New Democrats seems to be that if they are to succeed, they must move even further to the right.

I say “seems” because the Manning Centre poll, once examined more carefully, doesn’t indicate much that is new about the Canadian electorate.

If anything, it reveals how divorced mainstream Canadians are from the politics of both the Manning Centre itself (which, among other things, wants to gut medicare) and the hard core around Harper. >>

Published 10.03.20 13:05:59 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 10.03.20 | On the Web at: http://saveandrewgarib.com/articles/728 |

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