urbanclient
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PM Mark Carney's Canada
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adma
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Not quite. It reelected the Libs' Roger Gallaway in '04; and when Gallaway was defeated in '06 it was seen as something of an upset. And up to that time it was seen as a Peterborough-style bellwether (and provincially, it elected the Libs in *1999*--but likewise somewhat contrarily fell to the Tories in '07, and has remained in that camp ever since.)
While there's definitely an ancestral Conservative-cum-Bible Belt element within the riding (particularly in the rural parts), the real key to subsequent Conservative dominance is their tapping into a certain urban "petrochemical populism" sentiment, and the local Liberal infrastructure collapsing completely following their joint federal and provincial defeats, *and* the fact that the opposition's been split by the NDP deciding to quixotically target Sarnia (the Dippers were either 2nd or at least a quarter of the vote in every parliamentary election, federally and provincially, btw/Galloway's defeat and the '25 federal disaster). So yes, the riding's been consistently Con over the past 2 decades, but it's a rather quirky kind of Conservative...
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I’m not at all shocked that it was Evan Solomon who worked this kooky konservative to cross the floor. I remain angry that this was the tool the LPC appointed to Toronto Centre, which is also the heart of Canada’s LGBT community.
apart from a few, this is what it has always been about.
UtakataNoAnnex
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Gives a new meaning to "Big Tent" Liberals... /s
picard102
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Great for the NDP. Neither the Libs or Cons can be seen as progressive parties now.
Towered
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Political opportunism, obviously
UtakataNoAnnex
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...it's certainly their Marjorie Taylor Greene moment. Maybe they should also ask her run for them when they have another by-election. /sigh
nfitz
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That's always existed. I don't recall anything on this scale before. We seen opposition parties have support slip without this many leaving the ship.Political opportunism, obviously
There's a huge schism in the Conservative party - and particularly between a lot of the MPs and PP. I'd assume much of it was from PP's and Scheer's social conservatism. But I'm not sure that is so much of the case for the member for Sarnia.
Maybe it's more a reaction from MPs to the control-freak nature of the party, where MPs can't event do local media interviews.