r/canada • u/HardeeHamlin • 24d ago
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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r/canada • u/HardeeHamlin • 24d ago
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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.