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I know nearly nothing about Canadian politics. Are liberals really better than conservatives? (fedia.io)

submitted 5 days ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

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It's great that Pierre lost and he probably lost to someone better, but were there better candidates for the common people on the ballot? How are liberals as a whole for Canada? Would another party have been better - greens for example?

I've seen a community about better vote counting system, so it seems Canada is still a first past the post country?

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

There was also a dose of homophobia regarding Trudeau that has to be acknowledged. He's a self described feminist, he is LGBT positive and has shown up for all the Pride parades and even Canada's Drag Race, and has been photographed with drag queens, etc etc. He has practiced yoga. He also comes off as sort of foolish at times. So the nastier conservative faction who hate any sense of a man being perceived as effeminate call him homophobic slurs and that's probably a LOT of the reason many of them didn't like him. He's also super good looking, and I think that makes them resentful.