The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.
It’s almost like young Canadians are tired of seeing useless policies that don’t benefit them be passed into law time and time again by the Liberal government. Good riddance Trudeau.
I don’t know much about Canadian politics, but…
The data shows the Liberals in a distant third place for 18-29 year olds with 15.97 per cent, compared to the Conservatives and the NDP with 39.21 per cent and 30.92 per cent respectively.
It’s a dip for the Liberals, who were at 26.8 per cent at the beginning of August for the same age group. And it’s a boost for the Conservatives, who are up from 29.3 per cent at the beginning of the month.
That large of a swing over the course of a month seems like a red flag for the data. Did something happen that would explain the shift?
From housing affordability to climate change, Trudeau attempted to reach out directly to the demographic that’s helped him win past elections
Really? From the guys who
- Did nothing about housing since 2015
- Won’t do anything about housing that might inconvenience developers and landlords in any way
- Is talking all sorts of “studies” and “consultations” on housing…
- …but bought a five billion dollar oil pipeline without having to go on any such consultative exercises.
Please. The Liberals know what they need to do to fix housing (regulation on investment & speculation, massive and direct public housing) and they know that it’ll help the youth vote. They don’t want to do it, though, because their donor class would scream and they–the Liberals–are allergic to direct public spending.
Until they can find a “market-based solution” they won’t do a damn thing.
And anyone who looks to the conservatives when they’re feeling “economically anxious” hasn’t paid attention to the complete trainwreck that austerity policy is. Think things suck now? Wait until the conservatives get in and do the exact same thing, only with more service cuts and tax breaks for the very rich.
Anyone who would put the Conservatives ahead of the Liberals on anything hasn’t been paying attention.
I wish we had better options. The NDP could have this in the bag if they actually tried.
Ndp needs a stronger leader, not some clown who cries racism or similar every time he’s backed into a corner
Just imagine where we’d be if Jack Layton was still with us
Honestly, we’d be in a better spot if Tom Mulcair was still in charge. Or, if Charlie Angus had won instead.
Singh is okay, if you’re campaigning in the heady days of 2015-2019. He’s not the person you want now; you want an empathic economic populist–the Canadian equivalent to Sanders, if you will.
Singh isn’t that. Layton wasn’t, either. Layton did well because the Bloc and Liberals both collapsed and Harper had a natural vote ceiling.
Jagmeet has run out the clock too. The NDP should be making moves. The time is right. As usual they will not. Conservatives will fall ass backwards into power.
