BC Business
As Canada cleaves between left and right, the federal political landscape is coming to resemble BC's.
Next week’s federal election is still about nothing, in terms of issues. But it is shaping up to be about the political landscape of this country, which is becoming more like the B.C. model. As we near the end of this incredibly boring election campaign, it’s suddenly become interesting. Not because there are any substantive issues – it’s been all bromides and attack ads so far – but because, it appears, this country is being divided up between left and right.
As Canada cleaves between left and right, the federal political landscape is coming to resemble BC’s.
As we near the end of this incredibly boring election campaign, it’s suddenly become interesting.
Not because there are any substantive issues – it’s been all bromides and attack ads so far – but because, it appears, this country is being divided up between left and right.
This is, of course, a lousy choice for most Canadians who have always stuck firmly to the middle.
But here in B.C., we’re used to it.
We’ve been living with this kind of centre right-centre left politics for decades. Sometimes it strays too far to one side or the other, and we get all upset and change things. But mostly we just enjoy the fight.
It makes for the kind of fractious politics for which we’re famous. In this province, which coined the term, “socialist hordes are at the gates,” it’s bare-knuckle all the time. And when that doesn’t work, we pull out the knives and guns.
I think the ROC is welcome to it. This kind of interesting politics may be fun for a while, but is generally pretty destructive. It will be interesting to see if they think it’s so great in a few years.