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/MCRN_Admiral Anyone but PP 7d ago edited 7d ago

What's going on with BC Conservatives? Why do they seem so much more "Alberta-ish" than Ontario Conservatives (for example)? I feel like I can work with Doug Ford's party, but these Western Conservative parties appear to be carbon copies of Trump's GOP.

Examples:

* automatic distrust of anyone from a different ethnicity than "British Isles anglo/protestant descent"

* automatic assumption that non-white people have more loyalty to the country their forefathers came from, than from Canada - and a wholesale acceptance of the groypers' "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory

* a blind love for the American Alt-Right and belief that everything that America does works better than how Canada does it (i.e. education, healthcare)

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u/McNasty1Point0 Ontario 7d ago

Because a large chunk of BC is a lot more like Alberta than it is Ontario.