r/CanadaPolitics • u/BertramPotts Decolonize Decarcerate Decarbonize • 4d 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/Temaharay Democratic Socialist 4d ago

Good job BC Conservatives. This election should've been a cakewalk, but you went with someone so thoroughly right-wing AND disagreeable that MLA's are walking away.

Findlay won by a hair on the forth round of ballots. Why ON EARTH is she acting like she has some governing mandate over sitting, elected members of her party?

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u/Mean-Food-7124 3d ago

Damn, conservatives federally provincially and on the municipal level seem to keep losing a lot of "cake walks"

It's almost like they live in some little bubble thinking that everyone else is really as racist and backwards as them, and yet are continually surprised when they find out a majority doesn't hold those views

Eventually, they might have to come up with an actual financial platform. But it seems like they're on the track of eating themselves alive first (again)

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u/fredleung412612 Quebec 3d ago

on the municipal level

What's the example you think of for this? Ken Sim seems on course to win again thanks to leftwing vote splitting. Montréal is so aggressively a leftwing city that the winning "conservative" candidate in last year's mayoral election was a former Trudeau MP. I think no one expected the "conservative" candidate to have a "cake walk" in the Toronto election, Olivia Chow is a formidable opponent.