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Justin Trudeau has been elected Canadian prime minister for the third time. But he failed to win the majority he wanted.
None of the three major political parties ran good campaigns this election. But the Liberals are on track to win again due to COVID-19, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the PPC’s improving fortunes.
There is no easy path to power for any political party without the support of women. Has the CPC narrowed the gender gap with Liberals this election? It’s unlikely.
Canadians are faced with an unwanted election that’s placed climate progress at unnecessary risk.
Important differences mark the gun control policies of the Conservative and Liberal parties, in particular.
Labour unions and other progressive organizations in Canada have increasingly embraced strategic voting as a preferred strategy to defeat Conservative politicians. But does the tactic really work?
The political muscle of unions that helped to launch the NDP in was never that strong in the first place. Even worse for the party, it’s atrophied considerably over the course of the last 60 years.
Why are women and people of colour under-represented in politics? Part of the problem is strategic discrimination, or concern about other people’s biases.
The progressive left should not content itself with being a junior partner in Liberal minority governments. In the next election, they should seek to propose a principled, realistic alternative.
The election results could mean a national pharmacare program will happen, albeit slowly. Canadians can also expect more safe injection sites and money invested in the opioid crisis.
The urgent issues facing Canada during the election are not less urgent now that the election is over. The prime minister is going to have to reinvent himself and commit to some important compromises.
For international observers, it may be stunning to see Justin Trudeau’s government reduced to a minority after his meteoric rise to power in 2015. It happened because he disappointed his progressive base.
We’re stuck with first-past-the-post electoral system in Canada, but that doesn’t mean we have to use our vote as nothing more than a veto of the worst possible option.
Canada’s first serious attempt, and potentially last opportunity, to implement a national climate strategy hangs in the balance on Oct. 21. The Trudeau government is to blame for its precarity.
If Canadians want to advance financially, few policy innovations would offer the same boon to voters’ bank accounts than a public child-care program. So why doesn’t it drive votes?
If Canadians are to address the continuing significance of racism, we had better make up our minds to do so head on.
The federal NDP is missing an opportunity to put workers’ rights firmly on the agenda during this election campaign.
This election will have a major impact on Canada’s efforts to combat climate change. But how best to approach the available choices on the ballot remains a serious dilemma for Canadian voters.
Rather than just bribing us with our own money, politicians on the campaign trail should propose structural changes to the way government works and budgets itself.
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Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Professor, Political Studies; Director, Canadian Opinion Research Archive, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Associate professor and Founding Fellow, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, Dalhousie University
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Research fellow, University of Leeds
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Adjunct Professor in School of Communication and Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Research Assistant, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British Columbia
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba
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Research Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Brock University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University
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PhD Candidate, Western University
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Post-Doctoral Visitor, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
