I’m so happy the liberal’s power has shrunken. A Quebecois Bloc MP is better!
Hopefully we will have some liberal/conservative mps go independent to stand up for their constituents more.
Well, they’ll need NDP/Bloc MPs to pass anything as it is. Does it matter much whether the gap is 3 or 4 MPs?
It does weaken their bargaining power a little bit.
Why is a separatist party winning another seat a good thing for Canada?
BQ represents QC’s interests and it seems to be doing it well. It improves the lives of Canadians living in QC, therefore keeping them content with being a part of Canada. As an Ontarian I think that’s a good thing.
In fact I wouldn’t be mad if there was a BO that represented Ontario more closely than a pan-Canadian federal party. If we have more of these we could avoid some provinces getting underserved by the federal government. I think it would increase the effectiveness of our democracy. 🥹
The only reason the Bloc is ever elected is because they push the narrative that somehow the French language is under attack, the Feds are trying to erase their culture, and Quebec should be a sovereign nation. None of what they do is for the benefit of any other Canadians, which is backasswards for a federal party.
Separatists have no place in federal politics where the goal is to run a country and not break it into pieces.
-mom, can we have a Block Quebecoise?
-we have a Block Quebecoise at home
(the Block Quebecoise at home) The Wild Rose Party
Would be nice if we got a Wildrose federal party. The CPC would never be in a position to form a majority government again, and whoever forms a government might be unable to ignore Alberta as easily. Albertans would feel more represented. Also Wildrose would have to play ball with the rest of Canada to get what they want for Alberta. Given how the CPC leadership is the former Reform leader, the CPC is a bit of a Wildrose themselves, but run candidates across all of Canada.
For example, Alberta wants a pipeline through Quebec. Their strategy today is to get a CPC majority government elected and use whatever federal powers are needed to beat QC into doing it. In a world where AB can’t get a federal majority government under their control, they’d have to negotiate with QC, share the royalties, likely get forced to extract more royalties from the oil&gas companies that would benefit from the pipelines too.
