Noticing an interesting right wing bias in Canadian election coverage.

@Callmewhatyouwill Liberal and left wing are not the same thing. Both the Tories and the Liberals are variations on right wing politics. This has been true since the founding of the country regardless of virtue signaling under Trudeau.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow not Canadian, I'm using the American meanings when I say that. I'm just choosing to talk about Canadian politics because I don't know enough about it to make strong opinions on it and I'm so sock of talking about American politics.

Here right wing politics is supposedly more financially conservative,,lower taxes, more religious, more military minded, doesn't favor social welfare programs, supposedly smaller federal govt, etc.

Liberals are more about higher taxes, social welfare and leans more to equality of results than equality of opportunity. Pro abortion, and so on... Here Trudeau would be considered a liberal democrat in the same vein as Obama.

That was for clarity, and are obviously generalizations.

@Callmewhatyouwill Good to know. In Canada the Tories or Conservatives are from the monarchist tradition so basically old money. The Liberals are Liberals in the 19th century meaning which would be "Libertarian" in American. Basically the party of the business class aka new money.

Trudeau is just one of the new flavor of centre right types that knows how to use speeches and virtue signaling to get votes kind of like Obama actually so that is a good comparison.

We still have a left wing party the NDP which is close-ish to the UK Labour Party.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow What Do you think of Pierre Trudeau Justin Trudeaus Father

@JohnOinger I am not that old. lol. I was 2 when he left office.

As near as I can tell much like his son he was a mixed bag and he was known for being heavy handed at times. Much moreso than Justin.