A Conservative landslide: … the first Nova Scotia premier in nearly half a century to increase his majority in a second term.
A Conservative landslide: … the first Nova Scotia premier in nearly half a century to increase his majority in a second term.
And the rightward slide continues.
The Liberals are facing an existential threat. They have little provincial presence except in NFLD, and their federal party is in melt down.
The liberals just won a majority in New Brunswick. But they’re not known for their smarts.
That’s what I get for using out-of-date sources of information.
Thanks! DM, Fredericton, NB.
What is considered a “conservative” political position in Nova Scotia, BTW? Just curious.
And why can’t some of those provincial organizations get that damed word “progressive” our of their name? The term “progressive-conservative”, like the term “serviette” or “hydro” meaning electricity, makes me cringe!
Eric – A Progressive Conservative is kind of like a Ford Dodge.
It doesn’t exist! A PC always goes Progressive.
The Conservative component is always destined for the back shelf
Robert Conquests second law states: ‘Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.’
I read how that dumb name came to be.
In 1942 the Conservative party of Canada was desperately looking for a leader, seems they had no-one that could fill the position. So they offered it to Progressive party leader Premier John Bracken of Manitoba. He agreed, on the condition that they add “Progressive” to the name of the party. Thus we have the Progressive Conservative party, a ridiculous name. (The go-stop party. The forward-backward party. You can come up with more.)
Well despite having him as leader, they lost the election anyway and he resigned as leader. You would think they would then drop the contradictory word from the name but nope, 80+ years later they haven’t clued in.
Thanks Dirtman, I did not know that! What buffoons
Harper had the good sense to ditch the “progressive” nomenclature!
In her memoirs Maggie Thatcher said “Brian Mulroney was a “progressive-conservative’ who put too much emphasis on the adjective and not enough emphasis on the noun.” Good one Maggie!
Well, the Progressive Party was one of the most successful parties in Canadian history. Bracken’s government of Manitoba was a model of transparent competence.
The Progressives were a part of the socialist revolution that took place in the West after WW1. In Alberta and Saskatchewan, the economically dominant social class organised itself and took power, in the form of the United Farmers. Manitoba was too urban for this; Bracken put together a coalition of urban interests that could co-operate with farm interests without serious conflict. Don’t you wish somebody would do that today.
Knock me down with a god damned feather…I honestly thought the East was a lost cause.
Well done.
Then again you have the retards in New Brunswick.
Hey Burton, the east still is, and will remain a lost cause. They’re Progressive’s thru and thru.
PC’s are liberal lite.
Just look at what’s going on in Ontario.
Still, I’d prefer Liberal lite than the real thing, so I don’t know what in tarnation Nu Brunswick was thinking.
The New Brunswick election can be explained in two words. Ribbit Ribbit!
What is with all the votes for the NDP are they expecting freebies
oh my, and how long will it take these CONservatists to fix things enough for marinadetimers to figures ‘its ok to vote liberal again things are back on track’?
Good for them.
#Libranos lost 24 seats? lol…
14 seat loss from 2021 election 24 seats loss from 2017 election
#Libranos
I have a question. What’s that ‘Other’ party winning a seat? Is that just one of those crazy aunts with 87 cats that nobody talks about?
Probably an independent. That’d be my guess. Don’t really think it’s worth the time to look it up.
That’s not a tsunami that’s the wave a dinosaur killer asteroid makes!
my intro to Conservatism.
twas grade 7, 1963. ‘dief the chief’ days (what a FAILURE that one was; uber indecisive and like my Pa complained ALWAYS favour ‘the prairie farmers’ (is that why to this day ottawa gives the prairie provinces the short shrift?)
elementary school, the principal, a religious man who beat up l estimate around 100 kids and made sure the intimidation maxed out by displaying his weapons on his orifice wall so that the kids had a liiiiiiitle reminder who was ‘boss’.
he allowed the grade 7 ‘gifted’ kids to organize a junior conservative club.
they were all a bunch of effete SNOTS ‘holier than thou’ types, talked down looked down at little old moi, VERY superioristic attitudes l noticed and recalled long after.
there was never a junior liberal party of ye gawds a junior ccf party in that place.
the thing l MOST recollect was the endemic superioristic attitudes.
l think lm gonna call the school board ask them if THAT kind of thing is still allowed.
Your description of the unfortunate events and how you attribute those to conservative thought is what keeps me reading your comments. It’s a glimpse into how people are so incredibly different
‘Progres0sive’ is a euphamism for ‘Socialist’. Has been for years.
Here’s hoping these new Provincial conservative voters will contact their Federal Liberal MP’s with instructions to cause a Federal Election before they and their leader do any more harm to this country.
It is their second kick at the cat. I would like to see what wonderful changes they made last term and how they cut Nova Scotia’s cost and intrusion of government in people’s daily lives. I haven’t been involved in NS politics since the 1980s so I don’t pay a lot of attention to the day to day political bafflegab.
I guess they must have done something right to gain such a majority.
This outcome was expected. The PCs have been polling well ahead of the others for some time and job satisfaction numbers were also high. Read nothing into this; these PCs, like virtually all Atlantic Tories, are Red Tories, through and through.
I will give this government credit for trying to improve the wretched health care system; they’ve pumped something like a billion dollars of additional funding into it the past 3.5 years. Absolutely no inkling of privatizing any of it of course, because such free market thinking when it comes to health care remains politically toxic in this country. These guys were every bit as harsh with Covid measures as the feds so no points there. The lone independent who won her seat is, IIRC, a former Conservative who got booted from caucus quite some time ago though I can’t recall why.
I’ve lived in NS long enough now to experience NDP, Liberal and PC governments. This one may be the least bad so far, but that ain’t saying much. The Liberal one was easily the worst, led by an arrogant SOB who had contempt for anyone who dared to criticize him (sound familiar?).
Bang on buttercup, bang on. It’s as if we have three parties and they’re basically the same.
I had one hellva time finding out where to go to vote, the Provincial site wouldn’t work and their phone number didn’t either. Once we found out where to vote we went to vote, the place was vacant -12 workers and only two of us voting. I think they had very low turn out.