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The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ
laddicus finch
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« on: July 28, 2020, 02:15:42 AM »

Quebec
Newfoundland
PEI
Nova Scotia
BC
Ontario
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Sask
Alberta

Not even going to bother trying to rank the territories, because their politics are so localized and tbh I know more about the politics of many foreign countries than the territories.
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The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney PC CC GOQ
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2020, 02:23:14 AM »
« Edited: July 28, 2020, 02:30:28 AM by laddicus finch »

Quebec
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland & Labrador
Northwest Territories (?)
British Columbia
Ontario
New Brunswick
Yukon (?)
Nunavut (?)
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan


Mostly unsure about the territories (hence the ?-marks), put them where I guess they seemed like they should be.

Saskatchewan may have more conservative social attitudes due to it being a more rural province, but keep in mind that it is also a big government province. Even though the Sask Party pretty much has a monopoly on provincial politics, they haven't really tried to been able to dismantle the NDP legacy of government agencies/crown corps for everything. As a result, everything from auto insurance to telecom is a government monopoly. I'd argue Alberta is more genuinely right wing, while Saskatchewan still retains some of its prairie populist character.
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2020, 12:12:21 PM »

If Quebec is so left-wing, why does it keep electing right-wing provincial administrations?

I am pretty sure the current CAQ government is the first right wing provincial government of Quebec since like the 1970s or something like that?

Up until now provincial politics were fought between the separatists and the Liberals I believe, both of which are left of center (though of course economics was not really the big battle there but rather separatism)

The Quebec Liberals haven't really been economically left of centre for some time. During the 1960s and 70s, the Quebec Liberals had some of the most aggressively left-wing governments in Canada. But by the 1990s, the Quebec Liberals had become a very neoliberal party, Jean Charest literally got elected under a "small government" platform.
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2020, 01:41:56 PM »

Jean Charest literally got elected under a "small government" platform.

Well there is his Tory past to consider there.

Right, but the fact that the Quebec Liberals had a former Tory cabinet minister as their leader for over a decade says something.

To be fair, the politics of Quebec at the time was very polarized around the sovereignty issue, so the partisan coalitions were very weird from a left/right perspective. If you weren't a separatist, you were a Liberal. Charest was a Tory, but his cabinet included the likes of Tom Mulcair (although he seems to have been quite neoliberal when he was an MNA).
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