A short conversational transcript from a YouTube video where Matan Hazanov and another speaker discuss whether Canada is fundamentally left-wing. The speakers note vote-share patterns (Liberals and NDP around 55–60% vs Conservatives ~40% or less) and argue that traditional left/right labels are breaking down in favour of new voter coalitions shaped by location, economic status, and perceptions of entitlement.
When I look at the demographics of the country, The Liberals and NDP and all the left wing parties tend to get 55 to 60% of the popular vote. The Conservatives are typically 40% or less. Is Canada fundamentally like left wing country?
Take away the left wing, right wing, traditional constructs of, you know, of all of that. Progressive voters versus more conservative voters. Like we have a very different mix of what voter coalitions look like today. So a Conservative Party today has young people, has working class people, has union, private sector union people, which is almost entirely different than what a Harper government or a Harper coalition had. So the lines in the sand are no longer necessarily on the basis of progressive versus Conservative or left wing versus right wing. It's about where you are in this country, what you have, what you think you deserve and how you're going to get it. So I, I, I actually think there's sort of an interesting thing happening in, you know, in the, in the Canadian public and it has a lot to do with, you know, the, as, as Pierre has said it before, really pretty eloquently, the, the have yachts and the have nots.
That's cute.
That's pretty, it's pretty accurate too.
