Hello everyone. Here’s Allan with a long awaited update. As you are likely aware, Andrew Scheer has resigned and Erin O’Toole in the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, CPC. When he first started, he wasn’t very well known, especially in Quebec. His popularity in that Province was about 3.0%. Then it jumped to 60.5%. That’s a lot of work. A lot of campaigning for people to vote for a new Conservative Leader. I don’t think Justin Trudeau has that much to do. Of course he is from Papineau, Quebec.
Erin O’Toole an MP from Ontario, convinced that Canada was moving in the wrong direction under Justin Trudeau and these liberals, did not speak very good French very well at the beginning, but he sure can now, and I always thought that should be a requirement for every political leader, including Erin O’Toole. I don’t speak french very well, but I would expect that of myself.
There was a couple of things that the O’Toole campaign did to become the next leader. They won the most voters in Quebec who wanted him to be the next Leader. 60.5%; they also put out a campaign that promised only those in Quebec to recognize certain things. Such as: Border Security, Reinforcing the recognition of the Quebecois nation (I’m not sure if I’d go for that one), and local sales taxes on things like video streaming platforms. Immigration is also important to the people of Quebec. And by the way,
My Canada does include Quebec as a Province.
This was just for Quebec. Not the rest of Canada. But, it made a difference because he won over Peter MacKay and the others. And now he has to win again, this time in a general election, over Justin Trudeau and the liberals. Not an easy task. Maybe he won’t do it in the next election (whenever that is), but he should win sometime in the future. We hope. I’ll be volunteering again in the next election. These are the promises that I hope will be fulfilled. Immigration, Sales Tax, etc. This is so Quebec will stay in Canada and we will be a STRONG, prosperous Nation. By strong I mean a Military Defense that can defend this big huge Country. We should expect nothing less. An Army that can be ready to deploy anywhere in 24 hours or less, a Navy with a Carrier fleet at both ends of the Country, and an Air Force with the latest technology. And a Tank Division to boot.
Erin O’Toole is still relatively unknown in Quebec. So they have some work to do. But I’m confident that him and his team in Quebec, as well as all Conservative MP’s in Quebec will work together to change all that when the election finally comes. You’ll see it in their upcoming brochures and the promises that are mentioned. I personally do not want something that mentions Quebec sovereignty.
There’s one more thing. Conservatives think that a majority of their votes are with the Bloq. And so when the election comes, they will be targeting those voters. Listen to this quote:
…the rise of post-sovereignty nationalism in Quebec over recent years has created significant crossover between Conservative and Bloc Quebecois voters in the province. Carl Vallee.
In other words, Conservatives have to start taking away voters from the Bloq, not liberals, who voted for them in 2019. The Conservatives lost the election in 2015 to Justin Trudeau and the liberals, but there was some good news in Quebec where they increased their seat total from six seats to twelve. But ever since they took about 25% of the total vote in 2006 under Stephen Harper, their hold on Quebec has softened. Hopefully that will change. Soon.
“I do believe that the Bloc Quebecois and the federal Conservatives share the same electorate.” Carl Vallee.
I agree with that too. Because I remember in 2006 Gilles Duceppe, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois was campaigning of course in Quebec and for the first few weeks, his biggest complaint was against Paul Martin and the liberals and of course the Sponsorship Scandal. But when Stephen Harper and the Conservatives started to make inroads to Quebec, well that changed his strategy and he stopped talking about anything to do with Sponsorship and everything about how bad the Conservatives were. It changed overnight and I noticed it.
The Conservatives were ranking as high as 27% in Quebec.
The biggest most significant result I’ve ever seen in Quebec with a Conservative Government was in 1988 with Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservatives. It was a huge win in Quebec. But, part of the reason for their success in Quebec was that Brian Mulroney was from Quebec. Since then, there hasn’t been a Conservative leader from that Province. But I believe they can still win and beat the liberals, and the Bloc Quebecois combined if they put some work into it. They have some key people in that Province that can help them win. So here is the latest in Erin O’Toole and the Conservative Party of Canada.
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