how does a progressive country like Canada end up with a conservative federal government?

it seems like Canada gives the image of progress and acceptance. like an incredibly high tolerance towards liberalism like homosexuality or marijuana. but somehow the conservative party is in power of the fed. gov. with opposite ideology than its population?

2013-02-12T12:46:47Z

an example is how the same day Washington and colorado state legalized the recreational use of marijuana, the Canadian gov. approved a bill to penalize canadians in the same subject. a step away from what the population wants.

No Bozos2013-02-12T15:44:57Z

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Because socialism doesn't work in the long term and eventually "you run out of other people's money" like Margaret Thatcher once said.
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Edit: Marijuana is not necessarily a liberal/conservative issue. I know plenty of "liberals" that are against its legalization and I know plenty of "conservatives" that are for it.

?2013-02-12T12:51:55Z

Prorogue parliament
( Lock the door) when the opposition parties attempt to form a coalition on a non-confidence vote
then call a 6 week election when people are on holidays utilizing robo-calling sending voters to the wrong polling stations

and a final vote count of 24% of the voting population counts as majority party.

berggren2016-12-05T19:34:44Z

i certainly don't understand what has replaced lots indoors the GOP celebration the two. They replaced into as quickly as conservatives. John McCain isn't that interior the time of any understand in my innovations...better like a center of the line Democrat. i think of of varied why people do no longer 'settle for' Ron Paul's recommendations is that persons regularly (the few who additionally be attentive to who he's) won't stand interior the back of the dropping team. elementary as that. NFL soccer is a remarkable celebration of this. followers shop on with the prevailing communities. on a similar time as replaced into the merely genuine time you considered somebody wearing a 49ers jacket? on a similar time as they have been prevailing Superbowls, each and each physique appeared as though it could have one. the persons shop on with what's 'in', and do what the television tells them to. i think of of that optimum each and each physique is merely too lazy to study, or understand who their balloting for. they think of of that this guy McCain could desire to prefer to truly have some subject going for him as a results of fact he's everyday, and the Republicans all picked him for president. no longer so, yet they are actually not getting it. no longer some thing like having media propeganda preserving up your platform. If the MSM hadn't buried Ron Paul's message, then I do have self assurance this could be a thoroughly diverse election. yet like I heard on the Boise community television on the instantaneous... ABC merely provided UPN in this industry. ABC additionally owns 6 radio stations genuine right here. How do you get any message out on a similar time as the media facilitates an schedule, and has administration over each and each subject you pay interest as quickly as you turn on the television, or radio? they won't enable yet yet another Ross Perot to happen. many people i be attentive to comprise scared that if all Republicans do no longer all fall in line interior the back of McCain, then Obama will win, and that they are probably precise. I chosen the lesser evil 2 cases with Bush, and that i'm now no longer going to vote for a candidate as a results of fact he's ideal of the worst. we've 2 of those worst ones back.

Anonymous2013-02-12T12:40:27Z

"Conservative" does not mean the same thing in Canada as it does in the U.S.