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darkknight109 posted...

However, one of the realities of being a conservative in a left-wing country is that you have to have a sense of pragmatism, which most federal Conservatives have (outside of some wingnuts from staunchly-conservative ridings where they need not fear getting voted out). As such, most of the federal Conservatives don't bother touching things like abortion rights, gay marriage, etc., because even if they ram new legislation through, it would very likely cost them the government come the next election.

This isn't really true. Especially in recent years a lot of conservative politicians (especially safe districts) have been getting louder and louder about being anti-abortion or anti-LGBT - the only reason there isn't more talk against it is widespread public disdain for it, but that's easy to erode. especially for abortions, Canada doesn't have even the protections the States did with Roe v. Wade, so its very possible for a majority conservative government to start hurting your abortion rights very significantly.

And we've learned from both the US, and even local Canadian elections (like Ontario's last provincial election) that people are pretty ****ing quick to forget.

Canada isn't exactly as left-wing as some seem to think - we're just a bit farther behind on the "corporate fascism takeover" that the US is - and if the US goes that way, its very likely we'll follow real quick.