How electable would the GOP be in your country?

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"what are the disagreements between the Canadian Conservative party and the Democarts?"

Well, Phillip, it's not very cut and dry, sadly. The Conservatives have a more economically conservative policy than the Democrats do; especially when it comes to free trade. Conservatives in Canada tend to be like economic conservatives in the U.S.: big on free trade, low defeceits, cutback on social spending, regressive or flat taxation, etc. When the the tories were the government in Canada when Reagan was President in the U.S. relations were never better.

Socially the map in Canada is just too different from the U.S. Canada has to deal with the french/english issue in a way that no party in the U.S. does (with anything comparable). Although economics are tied into it, the rhetoric around it makes it sound like a social issue. Consequently, the Conservatives seem more socially liberal than the Democrats, but in reality their virtually indistinguishable.

One observation I've made is that the Canadian Conservative Party has the same problem as the Democrats in terms of including their fringe elements. Democrats in the states seem to get judged by their most extreme elements (anti-war protesters, militant anti-establisment protesters, etc.) In Canada, the Conservatives have trouble selling themselves as anything but the fringe right-wing party defined by gun-crazy, anti-immigrant, anti-minority Albertans.

I will say for the sake of decency, that neither generalization is anywhere near the truth.

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