acargitzEchoing Trump, Canada's Conservative Leader Vows to Deport Pro-Palestine Activists
CarlYou don’t need to vote Conservative or Liberal. Just vote for NDP.
This is wrong! Unless you are OK with letting the country become a reactionary vassal state of the US empire, we need to vote strategically. First check whether your riding needs strategic voting (or via smartvoting.ca or www.strategicvoting.ca, and you can cross check with your preferred polling reports – e.g. 338canada.com). If it does not, only then vote for whoever without throwing your vote away.
We need a progressive coalition.
I mean with how hard conservatives are getting trounced (see https://smartvoting.ca/) it seems voting your conscience is viable because a liberal majority is guaranteed anyway.
Worth noting that smartvoting.ca projects a better outcome for greens, NDP, and libs using strategic voting. But I respect your view, and in general I agree that a minority lib government in coalition with the NDP would be preferable. But with what is at stake, it just seems like too big a risk IMO to not be really clearly working the levers of power that are available to progressives.
I would also really encourage us to not spread complacency and an assumption that the polling will foretell outcomes. Polling in the current climate has proven to be really iffy (see scientificamerican.com/…/why-polls-were-mostly-wr…). Demographic shifts, new media and habits, and generally instability make this stuff really unpredictable. We should vote like our country depends on it.