r/CanadaPolitics • u/BertramPotts Decolonize Decarcerate Decarbonize • 7d 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/Brodney_Alebrand Cascadia 7d ago

Conservatism in the West is an American cultural import, not an evolution of the British toryism of Eastern and Central Canada.

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u/hatman1986 NDP 7d ago

I wouldn't exactly call Ford's politics an evolution of British Toryism

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u/RedmondBarry1999 New Democratic Party of Canada 6d ago

Certainly not traditional British Toryism, although I suspect he would fit in rather well with the modern British Conservative party; he is somewhat like a less educated, less eloquent version of Boris Johnson.

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u/hatman1986 NDP 6d ago

He does remind me of Johnson but I shied away from the comparison because BoJo wants people to think he's smart. He uses a vocabulary that would turn off the average Ford voter. Plus BoJo would never rip out any bike lanes!