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Lessons Canada’s Liberals Refuse To Learn From US Politics
Why emulate strategies that helped the Democrats lose?
The 2024 US federal election was disheartening for much of the world. Here in Canada, it marked a frightening shift. Canada and America have long been widely intertwined. Watching our boisterous next door neighbour plummet into full throttle hostile fascism is a rude shock. Or, for those who have paid more attention in recent decades, a long predicted inevitable continuation of ugly visible trends. The Overton window’s been relentlessly ratcheted to the right by venal billionaires in control of media and social media since long before Trump considered politics. The same escalating disinformation that plagues US politics firmly has its grubby fingers in Canada’s landscape as well. Chatham Management Group, a consortium of Republican hedge fund billionaires in New Jersey, control Postmedia, a collection of more than 120 formerly Canadian news media organizations that currently exist to provide >20 million Canadians terminally slanted coverage on every topic and direct them to vote for the right in every single election. This puts parties that frame themselves as progressive at a disadvantage.
Although Canada has more political parties than the USA, both countries seesaw back and forth between rule by only two of them. Rather than…
