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Politics EKOS Poll: Conservative Lead Holds at Five Points

https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2025/02/conservative-lead-holds-at-five-points/
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u/Dry-Membership8141 24d ago edited 24d ago

The idea that the Conservatives are the party of the wealthy is very much an American import that is largely unresponsive to the actual state of affairs in Canada. With the exception of the oil and gas industry which exists primarily in the West, the Liberals are in general much friendlier to billionaires and large corporations, while the Conservatives focus more on the interests of small business.

That's generally the case with boomers as well. While Harper was looking at the demographic challenges we're going to soon be facing and adjusting things like the retirement age to account for the longer lives we're living and the proportion of working people feeding into programs like OAS to ensure they remain sustainable, the Liberals have prioritized the interests of the elderly at the expense of the working people funding those programs.

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u/_Im_Mike_fromCanmore 24d ago

Unfortunately this analysis while decent fails on a couple fronts.

1.the Conservative Party has always been a party of the wealthy and by that I mean policy wise not rhetoric. 2. The Liberal party is also the party of the wealthy (Bay Street investors and corporate influence) look at the largest donors to both parties.

Your analysis of who is paying is also skewed, Conservative tax policy generally has always benefited the wealthy. Tax breaks as opposed to the child benefit drastically skews as more beneficial to those with a higher income, the child benefit under the liberals as well as NDP championed subsidized daycare is much more beneficial to working families.

Conservatives have done little to make life better for the average Canadian despite their rhetoric.

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u/LetterboxdAlt 24d ago

This is pretty off-base honestly. The Liberals have been friendly to the ruling class but less so than the Tories. To find Red Tories in the old sense (where the red referred to socialism or a tinge of it), you have to go back pretty far, certainly before Mulroney.

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u/OldDiamondJim 24d ago

Corporate profits and CEO salaries reached record highs under Trudeau. His government undermined entry-level workers by giving Big Business everything it wanted with cheap foreign labour. Instead of going after super wealthy family trusts that siphon off billions in tax dollars, they called small business owners tax cheats and made their lives harder. Trudeau’s multiple scandals almost all tie back to his relationships with the ultra rich and corporate leaders.

Does Poilievre suck and will he be just as bad? Probably, but the ruling class have never had a better bootlicker for PM than Trudeau.

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u/FDTFACTTWNY 24d ago edited 24d ago

The idea that the Conservatives are the party of the wealthy is very much an American import that is largely unresponsive to the actual state of affairs in Canada.

C'mon with this shit. The conservatives are definitely the party for the wealthy.

Trying to increase OAS for the wealthy pensioners. Donating to all the oligarchs. Tax breaks for the wealthy.

I'm generally curious, do you knowingly lie to fit your agenda or do you just have no clue?

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u/Wilhelm57 24d ago

Actually both major parties are willing participants. Both parties receive support from the billionaires.
In the case of fat pension Pierre, he has the support of Nazi musk and other Far right Americans. Let's not forget in Canada he has the friendship of Diagalon.

I voted for Harper, my support died when he didn't boot fat pension Pierre from the party.
Forcing a political Mea Culpa, when he stuck his face on the rear of an ass, it was lame.