West coast or central, or what?

That's very interesting.

Central Ontario.

Too far to drive. 😬

(I don't smoke, lol)

But yeah, that's interesting.

It's such easy money if you want to sell, this dude goes in a camper, loads it up, sells them in a hub town.

I'm not sure how much cigarettes are, but if it's easy money, I'm not surprised that it's a widespread thing.

I remember when I was learning to drive, the guy who was teaching me was like, yeah, let's go through the res.

And there were a bunch of shit houses, and then the chief's very nice house.

Kids playing outside au naturel.

And then like two blocks away, people with BMWs and Mercedes and shit.

The contrast was staggering.

Meanwhile, the chief has a nice new pick-up.

bloc du quebecois is a party that always gains influence whenever quebec hates the fed
so basically, it's a good party
yeah i know french canada shouldn't exist and all that (frankly, they should separate), or "they shouldn't separate becaues fuck them we're keeping them here and they're gonna like it" [edited]
but BQ is an effective party
so western canada needs its own party
a specific focus on western issues sounds like it could explode very readily
gain a few seats in the next election at least
PPC has failed thus far - PPC could gain influence nation wide, but that is a very long game

didn't conservatives used to be separated into western and eastern conservatives?

that division is what caused a lot of liberal victories, so the conservatives had to form coalitions

however, that's why we have the PPC to focus on the long game

or the western block can try to convince others of it's importance, reflect it as a wider canadian right wing issue, and gain influence across the nation that way

if anything it might convince the CPC to reform themselves

landslide liberal victories are something i enjoy, if only because it's a lesson

thing is, canada has been very left wing for a long time

so it doens't matter if we divide the conservatives, so long as we can shift the canadian overton window back

or to the right rather

introducing a right wing version of canadian nationalism

that isn't simply 'love america'

Nobody expected PPC to get elected, I am a huge supporter/donator. What is surprising is the absolute disregard supporters had when voting, in favour of Conservative instead, opting to not split the vote.

That ultimately costed Bernier his seat, and that's depressing.

bernier needs competition

from other right wing parties

like a western canadian bloc for example

bernier can't win if he just focuses on canada at large

he has to focus on specific regions first

canadians at large aren't sold on generic conservative issues that logically appeal to every region

My country is fucked

then let's unfuck it

i will be contacting a PPC member to discuss a few things, maybe invite them to my teamspeak server to chat

Man, There is a sea of blue between my orange province and the rest of our country.

BC is weird.. at the provincial level we have NDP and BC Liberals (which are our conservative party...)

i'm not surprised it's awash in orange at the federal level.

The only thing that surprised me was the surge of Bloc seats... did not see that coming.