IN FACT, THAT HANDLE APPLIES TO UPWARD OF 70%.
And now, all of our major federal parties are comfortably positioned there... left of centre.
The last hold-out was our Conservative Party but under its current leader - Erin O'Toole, the party has moved to this 'other side'.
So which party now represents the 30 % or so of us that are right of centre? None of course. Once it was the Conservative Party .. but only 'sort-of', since for as long as I can remember, the Party has backed as many liberal policies as it has conservative ones.
I have mentioned it on numerous occasions but it is worth saying here once again that a true conservative stands for balanced budgets, small governments and free economies. Those goals have become a long forgotten memory.
America used to be a beacon of true conservatism but in recent years it too has been slowly drifting into the progressive morass - (aka)...authoritarianism.
I said in a recent blog that should the Conservatives come out of the current election in a minority position it would actually be a loss for them since, unlike the Liberals...they could not expect the leftist New Democratic Party to support them. I am beginning to think I was wrong in that analysis. Indeed, with O'Toole, the NDP might very well see clear to supporting him and his left wing Conservative Party in order to get their own extreme agenda through parliament.
And I am not alone in seeing the Tories turn from Conservative Blue to Liberal Red since many respected analysts are coming to the same conclusion.
Since being elected in 2015, the Liberals have spent like drunken sailors and in so doing have impoverished future generations of Canadians. The Other Parties now promise to do the very same. All the while, the cost of living is sky-rocketing and for too many, home ownership has become a distant dream. The once fiscally Conservatives are promising to balance the federal budget by the end of 10 years which not only will not happen but by the end of that time who will even remember their promise.
The other amazing thing about the bountiful promises now spewing forth from party leaders is the fact that they mostly relate to matters of Provincial Concern and the Provinces are in such desperate financial straits that they are acquiescing in the face of this full court press by the Feds. The Goliath gets bigger and bigger and more remote from the people... where is David when you need him.
For me - a true conservative it means I will be voting Libertarian assuming our Riding even has such a representative. If not, Sir John 'A' even dead is looking like a good write-in bet.
But permit me to end on a positive note, as the election progresses it looks more likely that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be campaigning for the last time and with that would end the Reign of one of the worst Prime Ministers in Canadian history since his Dad, Pierre Elliott ran in the 70s and 80s.
As I See It...
K.D. Bell
