The reality is that the vast majority of Candians are socially progressive. On every issue from abortion to gun control to LGBTQ rights to social programs Candians lean left to hard left. As these right wing parties swing harder and harder right they appeal to a smaller and smaller extreme voting block. At some point they squeeze themselves out. Especially, like in Ontario, when it becomes so absolutely and undeniably obvious that all of Doug Ford’s talk of helping the little guy is just a series of schemes to enrich a small group of his wealthy developer friends/donors and when the social policies in places like Alberskatchetoba become so obviously about christofascist virtue signaling at the expense of extremely vulnerable children to appeal to fanatical extremists.

What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)

Is that too much to ask for?