Even on majorly contentious issues, such as what to do about structural racism, Canadians seem to agree more than they differ, this poll shows
On transgender rights, a small majority of women believe that someone who identifies as a woman is in fact a woman, regardless of biological sex. A small majority of men take the alternative view.
One issue that is emerging into prominence as a point of broad agreement is the length of actual prison time served by criminal offenders, particularly multiple murderers, which was the subject of a recent Supreme Court decision. Even at the lower reaches of that spectrum, Canadians think criminals get it easy.
The opposite strategy is not to simply “take” the middle ground in the traditional way, with sound policies and demonstrably good judgment and a catchy slogan, but to “take it back,” to scare people about the other guy, to move the landscape rather than the voters, to reach away from the clustering of fickle and flippable swing voters toward the extremist diehards who think everyone is out to get them.
Conservatives themselves think the common claim of their party’s ideological shift to the right is exaggerated, and in any case, Ashcroft does not see any shift as a deliberate strategy. Canadian Conservative voters appear in this poll to be less ideologically right-wing than their Conservative politicians, but Ashcroft points out this is an eternal pattern in politics, that it’s usually the keeners who seek office.
In a way, this is a view from outside. Although the questions are about how Canadians see themselves, and answered by Canadians, they are framed by a British pollster who used to run the finances of the U.K.’s Conservative Party. They are thus inspired by a decade of international interest in Trudeau.
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