If, as the cliché goes, political electability is about who voters want to sit down to have a beer with, then it is also about who they don’t want to sit down to have a beer with. And if we believe recent polling, it appears that voters really, really don’t want to sit down for a cold one with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Nor, it seems, do they want to share a $10 bottle of Kombucha with him. According to data from late last year, millennials are nearly twice as likely to vote for the federal Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre than they are the Trudeau Liberals. What’s weirder is that Gen Z — a demographic that lists climate change as a primary reason for not bearing children — appears more likely to vote Conservative in the next federal election. Overall, the vast majority of Canadians want Trudeau to step down as Liberal leader.
What exactly is going on here? Why are the age cohorts that include young parents and queer college kids turning on the political party that banned conversion therapy and gave them $10-a-day child care?
I’m going to go out on a very short limb and guess the reason is: a) these groups are struggling profoundly to earn money and find adequate housing and b) irrespective of any sound policy on the part of Justin Trudeau, people are just plain sick of the guy.
Yep.
Justin is not only merely annoying af; he also tends to promise things that he cannot deliver - like low cost loans for rentals in British Columbia or despoiling Banff's natural beauty to put up housing for the numerous unvetted migrants marching into the country - because he hasn't the money for them, has not thought the plan through, or is just plain lying.
What is missing from this equation, however, is the demand for political reform.
Assuming that the Chinese don't come through with some electoral fraud or intimidation of dissidents far and near and anyone but Justin wins the next "election", what is to stop anyone from running ad nauseum? When does Justin truly answer for his numerous scandals and wrong-doings?
Political reform, is my point.
Term limits.
No appointees.
Remove pensions for serious violations.
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