I'm probably going to lean Liberal/Progressive throughout all levels, just out of sheer pragmatism. I also tend to lean centre-left in general.
Genuine question, for everyone, is: what is it and the widespread anti-Trudeau sentiment in Alberta, across all of the political spectrum?
I get it that he's far from the perfect PM, but putting my outsider hat, from a point of view of someone who's been studying Canadian politics, economy and history as much as I can, he seems to have been fairly competent as far as the national economy goes, not many scandals really worth the title, no major corruption indication...
Is it just a general conservativeness that comes with the territory, even among the more progressive Albertans?
Yeah, good question idk. I mean, I've lived in Toronto and Vancouver and went to the UofA, so I dont think I'm the stereotypical albertan. I also find that its funny how Albertans are viewed as conservative, but when I lived in both Toronto and Vancouver I found that anyone outside the core, similar to edmonton/Calgary, was just as conservative. Like the GTA is not actually that liberal. Tons of small towns that got absorbed, manufacturing industries that produced families with similar values and views as farmers and oil patch workers. Lots of immigrants as well who hold more religious views that are often quite conservative compared to Canada.
So tbh, I've found 3dmonton more progressive than most people I've met in like Hamilton, surrey, Langley, pickering/durham region. But the alberta stereotype prevails.
In terms of Trudeau, I think his character is atrocious. The number of scandals he's been caught up in are embarrassing. Sadly we don't seem to care about character in our political leaders anymore, hence the Trump reality.
Trudeau will win as the center party with little competition. But a strong push by the ndp or pcs with a good leader I think could take on Trudeau. There's just no alternatives.
I'm not anti trudeau, like a F Trudeau bumper stick guy at all ahha. Not that albertan. But I really don't trust anyone who has had multiple ethics investigations and scandals.
I also generally lean fiscally right at a federal level, whereas I lean left for municipal. Tbh, one of the most convincing things one of my urban planning profs sold me on is that canada should move to a government system where municipal is more powerful and federal/provincial are less. And I'm really convinced that would be better. So that leads to a desire for smaller government and less spending federally. (Although in areas like immigration i lean pretty far left, so thats one of those areas where I dont feel well represented by pcs federally. But monetary policy by ndps federally is concerning to me too).