In my last blog I mentioned that as we are all well aware, the Liberals were pretty much decimated east of Ontario, that the party had received less than 20% of the popular vote, and that party leader Michael Ignatieff himself went down to defeat and will be leaving to take up a teacher career again.
Again I have to ask the question then … why do we need a Liberal party at all --- and what is it they stand for that people on the center right can’t find a comfortable home with the Conservatives … and those on the center left with the NDP (or a new hybrid called Liberal Democrats)?
In BC, according the CBC, 45.5% of the popular vote went to the Conservatives, which was higher than the national average of 39.6%. The NDP? … well they took 32.5%, which was just up from the national average of 30.6%. The telling story is with the Liberals however who continued their free-fall in the west receiving just 13.4% of the popular vote.
I mean no disrespect but again other than have a rather wide boundary of acceptance, and wide boundaries to political viewpoints, what does 'liberal' mean? When Canada and BC basically had two parties, voters did have a clear choice --- now with multiple parties where do the Liberals fit in??
