More evidence that the pact is borne of weakness, rather than strength.
During the 2021 election, Canadians didn’t have the opportunity to vote on a Liberal-NDP Pact.
The parties didn’t talk about it, and they didn’t run on it.
On election day, Canadians made their thoughts on the Liberal government clear, with the Liberal popular vote and raw vote declining. And, for the second time in a row, they lost the popular vote to the Conservatives.
Canadians also made it clear that the Liberals should be denied a majority government.
Of course, we know that the Liberals & NDP formed a pact anyway.
Thus, having been denied the right to vote on whether they wanted a Liberal-NDP government, we have to look at the polls to get a sense of what Canadians think.
And two recent polls show the Conservatives have surged.
According to Mainstreet Research, the Conservatives are up 4 points to 38%, with the Liberals down 1 point to 32%.
The NDP is down a point to 17%.
Nanos has the Conservatives up 4.3 points to 35.6%, while the Liberals are at 30%, a drop of 2.2 points.
The NDP is down 2 points to 19.6%.
While both polls have slightly different numbers, the trend is the same:
Conservatives up, Liberals & NDP down.
A coalition of weakness
Why would the Liberals and NDP form a de facto coalition or pact?
Is it because they feel strong?
Well, if they felt strong, then the Liberals would have kept on going without a pact.
If the NDP felt strong, they would have confidence in their ability to extract concessions from the Liberals or threaten an election.
Instead, both the NDP and Liberals appear increasingly defensive.
The Liberal-NDP pact can best be seen as a pre-emptive move designed to block accountability and entrench the increasingly far-left shift of the government at a time when Canadians are moving in the other direction.
The surge in Conservative support coincides not only with the pact, but with the growing popularity of Pierre Poilievre’s message, a message that is based on a full rebuke of the statist, big-government worldview.
Canadians are experiencing in real-time the failures of statist policy, whether through the ongoing divisive denial of rights and freedoms to unvaccinated people, or inflation that is making everything more and more expensive.
Add to that the clear fear the Liberals & NDP have of being transparent regarding the National Microbiology Lab, and we can see how those parties are desperate to avoid the electorate.
With their failures all the more evident, the Liberals & NDP are reduced to doubling-down on those failed policies, maintaining a stranglehold in the House of Commons, and hoping that things will be different enough in the three years to hold on to some semblance of power.
Those are the actions of politicians who realize they aren’t up to the task of governing and can no longer count on the support of Canadians.
Spencer Fernando
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