we share a lot in Common. We have right, left, middles and the like. Our political system handles it differently, What is different is our electoral system, and how our governments work.
bu at the end of the day, we do share a lot of the same ideologies. Just the numbers of who support each are vasty different. Canada tends to be far more liberal overall.
there's some truth that we "lag" behind the US in what happens politically. Harper, our previous prime minister and the conservative party is very much seen like the Bush administration. And Trudeau is very much the voice of "change" that Obama was supposed to. And we ARE seeing a lot of minority Conservative supporters who are very loud and angry about losing power. They are speaking with emotion that the leadership no longer represents them. What it fails to aknowledge is that Canadian population as a whole is predominantly liberal, and not conservative. Conservatives have very rarely had more than 30% of the popular vote (with some notable and explainable exceptions). The far right "tea party" religious right is even smaller, though louder portion of that group.
I know i've repeated myself, But Conservative supporters (the party, not the mindset) refuse to knowledge that the religious backed doctrines, corporate ties to government, and general right winged politics is not even close to a majority of the population here. in our last election in 2015, Left wing parties accounted for 70% of the popular vote. The sole right wing party was 30%. in an election that saw a significant uptick in voter turnout. But because of the First Past the post electoral system we have, a party can win majority of control of the government without a popular majority (even the current liberals only had 43%)
now, whether or not we chose the best of the left to lead is a different matter. The "Liberal" government of Canada historically is the "de facto" government. They have more leaderships than any other party, so its often considered they get the "default" vote. But unlike Canadian Conservatives, the rest of Canada doesn't look at politics as a YES/NO thing. it's not a zero sum game and there arenot' just two mindsets. this is really where Canada seperates itself. Instead of "left v right" or really in the US case "right v extreme right", we have options accross the whole spectrum. As I said, in the last election there were effectively 4 left wing parties (Liberal, NDP, Green, Bloc) and only One on the right (Conservative).
TLDR: Conservative party supporters are really upset that their party is no longer in control of Canada, and instead of this country now being run by a 50-60 year old, it's being run by a Gen X 43 year old former school teacher, whose policies are significantly more left winged than we've had in the last 15 years. They're upset because they no longer feel represented. And instead of making legitimate arguments WHY, they are taking the mindset that they don't care WHAT Trudeau does, as long as it's against their ideology, all he's doing is taking selfies and being a social media star. It is starting to sound exactly like petulant children throwing hissy fits and often doesn't / can't be backed by facts/ reality. Listen, I hated Harper, and I think he was a disaster for Canada, But because I didn't agree with him, doesn't mean he suddenly didn't do anything.
at the end of the day though, Canada and US do have a lot of differences in popular ideology: some recent polling shows the difference
http://abacusdata.ca/canadians-mora...tly-from-that-of-our-neighbours-to-the-south/
