General Politics Discussion

[jeffster]

Were trans bathrooms, sex-ed in school, identity politics, vaccines and face masks significant issues in this election? Because if they were, I managed to miss them.

Firearms policies are federal, though, so really not much to do with this election. (And, for what it's worth, legal guns do turn into illegal guns very easily, all it takes is one break-in.)

There was a strong narrative from the NDP and Liberals regarding certain social issues and that Ford was 'not there' for them. The LGBTQ+ itself was very vocal that people that vote PC are evil, wicked people (just browsing social media to see this) and the Ford hates every LGBTQ+ person out there. Just seeing the comments on twitter is sickening, but it is what it is.

On that topic, it should be noted that, as I mentioned before, the "905" play king-makers. The 905 has a lot of "visible" minorities. They are religious and read the Quran. The whole messaging from certain groups don't go over well with them. Those folks are more social conservatives than anything else. And, many are business owners. And many earn less than $50,000/year. So it was the perfect brewing pot for them not to vote NDP (hence their massive decrease in votes earned). Rural Ontario, and to an extent, all cities outside Toronto and Ottawa, are ignored by Liberals, which is another perfect brewing pot for those to vote PC. This is why Liberals had only 1 victory outside Ottawa and Toronto (Kingston, where that nut job that was excommunicated from the PC's, Randy Hillier, comes from).

As crazy as Ford and his party was for the first year in, he calmed down and learned the role after 2020. They had no issues with kicking people out of caucus and having members resign, and if not, they were excommunicated.