DC Al Fine
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« on: January 18, 2015, 01:11:08 PM » |
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I'll do Canada.
1896: Tories lose their dominance in Quebec over the French schools question.
1921: The Progressive party places 2nd in response to Western alienation over tarrifs, government aid etc.. Two-party system is gone forever.
1935: Social Credit and the CCF emerge as socon and socialist responses to the Great Depression.
1958, 1962: Social Credit begins winning seats in Quebec. The Western/Anglo Socreds replaced by the Tories. The NDP contests their first election in 1962.
1984: Mulroney wins a landslide with a broad base including Western populists, Eastern establishment types and Quebec nationalists
1993: Mulroney coalition implodes as populist and French nationalist wings become Reform and Bloc Quebecois respectively.
2004: Progressive Conservatives and Reform merge. NDP shut out of Sasketchewan indicating that their prairie roots are waning.
2011: NDP sweeps Quebec. Liberal coalition cut down to trendy urban areas, English Montreal, and parts of Atlantic Canada.
I consider Canadian politics to be the most interesting in the Anglosphere.
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