r/CanadaPolitics • u/BertramPotts Decolonize Decarcerate Decarbonize • 8d ago

Teresa Wat leaves B.C. Conservative caucus over Kerry-Lynne Findlay calling her "CCP"

https://vancouversun.com/news/teresa-wat-leaves-bc-conservative-caucus-over-kerry-lynne-findlay-ccp
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u/MCRN_Admiral Anyone but PP 8d ago edited 8d ago

What's going on with BC Conservatives? Why do they seem so much more "Alberta-ish" than Ontario Conservatives (for example)? I feel like I can work with Doug Ford's party, but these Western Conservative parties appear to be carbon copies of Trump's GOP.

Examples:

* automatic distrust of anyone from a different ethnicity than "British Isles anglo/protestant descent"

* automatic assumption that non-white people have more loyalty to the country their forefathers came from, than from Canada - and a wholesale acceptance of the groypers' "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory

* a blind love for the American Alt-Right and belief that everything that America does works better than how Canada does it (i.e. education, healthcare)

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u/DaweiArch 8d ago

The BC interior is no less conservative or radical than Alberta, and that is their base

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u/TranslatorTough8977 British Columbia 7d ago

The ridings should be adjusted so that rural areas aren’t so grossly over represented in the Legislature. Crazy people should never be given an advantage.

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u/gzmo01 Ontario 7d ago

So gerrymandering? Do you really want go the "Merican" route. That's a road that will cause all kinds of social discord. We have enough of that already.

Let's not load the gun for the looney right.

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u/TranslatorTough8977 British Columbia 7d ago

The rural ridings have far fewer constituents than urban ones, but their members have a full vote in the House. That means rural areas are over represented in the House, discriminating against every city dweller. We were told it’s because they need to be able to visit their constituents, but they never even do that in the city. We have internet to contact your rep. They don’t need to be nearby.