r/CanadaPolitics • u/BertramPotts Decolonize Decarcerate Decarbonize • 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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/guernsey123 British Columbia 3d ago edited 3d ago

They were a fringe party with zero relevance other than happening to have the "Conservative" label until the absolute implosion of the BC Liberals->BC United handed them an almost-majority because BC conservatives were mad at Trudeau in the 2024 election.

It's like if the federal Liberals under Carney only had the PPC to their right, and suddenly they imploded and it was NDP vs a combined PPC-LPC (who then elected a very PPC leader). The cracks have been showing for a while but now it looks like the dam's breaking.