Unifor, of the largest labour unions in Canada is back Trudeau and blasting Scheer
This is so weird. They're worried about Unifor threatening their objectivity, but not their Tory-friendly management and editorial team? Weird time to show concern, in my mind.
You're right, I forgot about them totally. My HS history teacher was big on Tommy Douglas, he considered him the greatest Canadian in history even. I remember that Douglas brought Canada Universal Healthcare and that his NDP dominated Saskatchewan, so it's kinda sad that the CPC are so dominant there nowadays. I understand PETs energy policy pissed AB/SK off, but I wouldn't expect a formerly heavy NDP area to go so right wing lol
I'd like for the Federal NDP to be dominant there, since it seems like LPC are a no go there.
It absolutely is possible in Saskatchewan's urban centres. Were all Liberal voters to vote NDP in the last election, the NDP would have picked up several additional seats from Tories,
including Scheer's own seat. This simple fact that Liberals here in SK don't seem to engage in ABC voting principles is part of why I'm always wary about ABC voting sometimes being used by unscrupulous people to mean "vote Liberal or else". Perhaps that's not fair of me, and I don't feel good about thinking it, but... really, why would someone even bother voting Liberal here if they're not in Goodale's riding?
Children are ideologues, idealistic and lack pragmatism, lack long term vision, easily pandered with candy
Children shouldn't vote
You've basically just described at least half of CPC voters, so if it's not an issue exclusive to the young, what does it matter, at this point?
This is a really peculiar take, especially when you consider that:
- 18-25yo voters turning out to vote are a huge part of what gave the Liberals their current majority, making your take entirely antithetical to your desired outcome in the election
- young voters only ADD votes, not take them away, which means nothing of value is lost by allowing a bigger voting pool
- young voters are at least 75% likely to vote for a left-leaning party, and that includes the LPC, despite your inference to the contrary, which puts several swing ridings as being much more likely to elect LPC MPs, meaning if anything is lost by allowing young people to vote, it's Tories having a chance of being elected in swing ridings
Who here is going to argue that as a bad thing?