Why did Canadians vote against the Conservatives?

Question

I've cared about the 2015 Election in Canada because I knew it was going to be a right race and really important. Most of the Canadians I talk to are Orangemen in Ontario who have told me how great Stephen Harper has run things as Prime Minister, seeing that he brought Canada so strongly out of the Recession, he's stood behind the U.S. in the War On Terror, he's made government more efficient by breaking down Liberal corruption, and he's preserved the glorious British Canadian Culture and Protestant Values that the country was built on. He's a likable guy, too, while Pierre Trudeau is a radical Leftist who makes all his fellow Liberals support Abortion in order to get into power, and he lacks the proven leadership that Harper has, plus he also doesn't have good Canadian moral values, shown by how Trudeau, a married man with kids, posed with a topless woman at a homosexual parade, not to mention everything else. All I've seen from Liberals about why they don't like Harper is constant name calling and vitriol, nothing based on evidence or facts, they remind me a lot of the Democrats in America. How could you Canadians who voted for Liberals possibly want Trudeau over your glorious incumbent Stephen Harper, who was in the lead a few weeks ago? And what made Conservatives start to lose the lead they had in the polls?

Answer 1

I like Harper but he is not a populist.Canada had before the image of a peaceful country .Harper sent canadian troops to fight in Kandahar the worse place in Afghanistan.Harper wants to tax family allowances.Trudeau wants to tax more the high incomes ,promised to give more pensions to old people and more family allowances to mothers.Trudeau is young,nice looking, son of a former premier, has carisma.Trudeau is more populist .Also people wanted a change.Also now there are more immigrants and generally they vote liberal.

Answer 2

Depends on the reasons. A lot of people were angry at Stephen Harper s damaging Canadian reputation on the international scene. Others were angry at the Conservative over veteran or handling of domestic issues.



It is clear that people made a vote against Harper by electing the ones that were most likely be in a position to topple the government. I do not think that votes always equaled approval of a party s platform. Remember the a.b.c. Anything but Conservative (led parliament). Many Conservatives supporters did vote against them over several issues. So it was clear that people were upset at the Conservative.

Answer 3

There are two main progressive parties in Canada - The Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP). Many people were tired of the Conservatives and their unpopular leader. In the days leading up to the election, it looked like the Liberals had the best chance at ousting the Conservatives, and many traditional NDP supporters voted strategically by voting Liberal. But Canadians in general were eager for change, which also explains why voter turnout was up 8 percent.

Answer 4

One reason Harper lost was standing behind USA in all its wars whether USA without consulting with Canadians should really go to a country and bomb the hell out of the country just because USA is doing it.Libya, Syria, Serbia and Iraq are good examples of this. Canadians are much more peaceful and peacekeeping nation than USA could ever be.Most Canadians don't like the follow the USA attitude taken by Harper period.

Answer 5

Truthfully, the reason why a lot of us are against the conservatives is because they're shît. In the past 10 years Harper has been Prime Minister, a lot of things he promised to fix (which really do need to addressed) are either still crappy or have just gotten worse. Most would rather take their chance and put hope in someone new rather than give into the conservatives knowing very well nothing is going to change.

Answer 6

Everybody wants to blame Harper for the shortfalls... and plus Canadians want change.



In a few years everyone is going to be cursing g at Trudeau.



Harper may not have made the biggest impacts positively... but that's not a bad thing... he had many good views...



People can blame him for all the debt that was caused... do u think that if the liberals were in charge during his time that the deficit would be lesser? Cmon... it would probably be worse imo.



People are so blinded by what Trudeau wants to change positively... but look what he will take away.



Just wait... the Trudeau hate club will soon be here.

Answer 7

I think you have stated most of the reasons yourself. Harper has done nothing for Canada and has constantly attacked the freedom of Canadians. Terrorism ? Get serious ,no terrorist attacks on Canada since the FLQ , the two claimed terrorist attacks recently were psychotic and possibly drug induced which can in part be traced to defunding mental institutions. Fear is the intent of Terrorism and Harper has been the agent of spreading that fear. We made it through the 2008 recession by means of legislation passed by the Liberals and by blocking legislation of the conservative legislation which followed that of W Bush. We have reduced CO2 emissions by the action of 4 provinces , Ontario being the big one . Harper claimed credit by doing absolutely nothing except criticizing Ontario for it's high cost of electricity and provincial deficit. The man has no foresight, I'm starting to believe he may have a conscience , he seems to be relieved he no longer has his job , I think it became too much for him.

Answer 8

Harper did a lot of damage. He did not get us out of a recession.

He widened the gap between rich and poor by giving larger corporations huge tax breaks.

Several people in his caucaus were also put on trail such as Mike Duffy for over spending and then there was the guy in Harper's caucas who made Homophobic remarks and you just can't say those things. . .then there was a guy who was caught on camera peeing into a cup in someone's home when he was a renovator and these are the people Harper puts into his caucas???? You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

Also, Stephen Harper has done nothing to inquire about an investigation into missing and murdered aboriginal rights. . .When the aboriginal communities were suffering from influenza several years back, they asked the gov't to send them more medication and doctors to help them and instead Harper sent over body bags. He made an issue of the Niqab when only 2% of women have ever asked to wear one during the swearing in ceremony. Harper also put out more attack ads than any other political party. I think that rubbed people the wrong way. He just doesn't have a clear grip on reality now a days. . .In todays age we need equality and respect for all humans and he clearly didn't show respect for Aboriginal people and respect for the middle class since he allowed the middle class to pay for everything. . .He also refused to meet with Liberal premier Kathy Wynne on several occasions when he had met with other premiers. . .so people guessed that he did that either because she was liberal, or she was a she or because she is a lesbian. . .IN either one of those cases, it shows that he doesn't respect equality and hasn't treated people equally. He also had nothing on his agenda about climate change and that is a key issue for young CAnadians especially. He also used terms like "new stock" and "old stock" in reference to Canadians and these are old fashioned terms to describe white supremacy. . .so these are the reasons that Canadians are fed up with him.



As for Justin being for abortions etc. . .well . . .we need a gov't who is for women's rights and therefore the right for a woman to have control over what happens to her own body.

Answer 9

I don't dislike Harper personally and I know next to nothing about Trudeau's policies. I guess they don't really matter since we all know politicians campaign and govern in totally different ways. The Liberal MP for my province said he'd cut our sales tax from 15 to 7%, which is hilarious. But at the end of the day too many of Harper's constituents are xenophobic, narrow-minded, pissed-off and embarrassingly misinformed hardasses and Harper and his allies did far too much to appease them. He failed to provide neutral, balanced leadership or even demeanour... he only cared about being as right as the wing goes, like a Canadian Barry Goldwater. As a recent immigrant, I often felt that my government was on-again, off-again hostile to me and my family. Harper won a majority government in the last election thanks to very low turnout, so I didn't want to be indifferent and then complain abou him for the next four years. I voted Trudeau to change Harper, nothing else.

Answer 10

The Conservatives were doomed after a lot of NDP and left-leaning voters shifted to the Liberals to stop Harper from getting a minority gov't. And the fact that the Conservatives lost many high-profile incumbents cost several safe Tory seats.

Answer 11

A few facts about Harper's economic record:

Harper has added $150B to the national debt. He alone has generated over a fifth of Canada's federal debt. Harper blew an inherited Liberal surplus during economic boom years and created his first deficit months before the recession. When the recession hit he denied any recession was happening or would happen in North America. Although Harper has downloaded more costs to the provinces under the guise of being fiscally prudent, he managed to inflate the debt anyway, largely through egregiously wasteful spending and using the Treasury as the CPC's personal line of credit (with no repayment plan). Gazebos, fake lakes, partisan advertising, panda rentals, jacking his own salary so that he's the sixth highest paid leader in the world, and billions in corporate handouts do add up.

Harper has never met a single budget target, never "balanced a budget" and this election year's attempt is merely a gimmick. Once elected he'll be riding the gravy train again while gutting services to Canadians. He's hoping the cheap beads he's throwing you will distract you from the $36B cut he's planning to health care. Oh sure, you can get more bang for your buck in an RRIF (if you're able to save) but that will be eaten up by the health services you'll be paying for when the govt no longer does.

Harper & Flaherty promoted the same financial deregulation that brought down the world economy.

As of March 2015, Canadian job quality has sunk to a record low, low-paying jobs are becoming the norm and Canada is seeing the slowest job growth in 35 years: http://www.newswire.ca/en/stor...

Canada posts weakest annual job growth since 2009: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/r...

After 8+ years of Harper: "Canada is now among the most vulnerable large economies in the world." http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ma...

The Harper government’s fraudulent attempt to look tough on tax havens: Rules are so poorly designed they’ve been useless in making it harder for Canadians to hide money offshore.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion...

Additional Links:

Generating debt: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...

Denying the recession: http://uk.reuters.com/article/...

Harper's abysmal economic record: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/...

Promoting financial deregulation: http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/1..



Note: Someone posted this comment on a Facebook (Global and Mail or CBC news) post regarding the Federal Elections. Couldn't share her comment so I had to copy

Answer 12

Because Harpers a stick in the mud... and Mulcaire is just an old hairy dude... and nobody votes for the green party or the blic quecois

Answer 13

The old Prime Minister was a scumbag, union busting, corporate suckhole who cow-towed to the corporate plutocrats attack on the working class and unions in Canada allowing foreign workers to be flown in to take Canadians jobs. Good riddance!!

Answer 14

Because conservative ideology is HORRIBLY OUTDATED AND HAS NO PLACE IN THE 21st CENTURY, AND HARPER IS A SOCIOPATHIC ASSHOLE JUST LIKE FUCKABEE, CRUZ, COULTER, FUX NEWS, CARSON, TRUMP, THE DUGGARS, JOSH FUCKERSTEIN, and all other assorted looney tunes who only care about THEMSELVES AND THEIR AGENDAS AND NOT THEIR COUNTRY...Im not totally into Trudeaus ways either as I voted NDP, but at least HARPER IS OUT AND LIBERALS/NDP actually care about our country...

Answer 15

Canadians are rejecting the world-wide neoliberal cabal and are finding their identity again.



The true North strong and free.

Answer 16

It's really annoying talking to anyone about politics when they don't even understand how Iceland has fired all their politicians and heavily restricted their banks and yet there dollar is worth more or just as much as the Canadian dollar...............

Answer 17

Yes

Answer 18

Well from the looks of it I would say greed. That communist guy you guys elected promised to take property from people who had it and worked for it and give it to people who did not have it or work for it. Wanting what others have is greed. Plain and simple. But most people in the US base their vote on greed to. Look who we have as president.

Answer 19

"He's a likable guy"



I think I see the problem: you are clearly talking about someone who is not Stephen Harper.



Also, Pierre Trudeau died some years ago. His son Justin is the new PM-elect.

Answer 20

Because Canada is a liberal socialist country.

Under conservatives....their socialist programs were threatened

and none of them wanted to pay for their own medical coverage.

Answer 21

Voting for politicians is like selecting which STD you want. In the end, liberals was the best of all the "STD's"

Answer 22

Canadians didn't want to see their universal healthcare go away.

Answer 23

Haha ur ghey when you looked at me as I voted

Answer 24

bc harper was horrible. is there a legitimate reason NOT to vote against him?

Answer 25

Canadians are more socialist and the liberal party is more for socialism.

Answer 26

Canadians are rejecting the world-wide neoliberal cabal and are finding their identity again.

Answer 27

FYI: Canada is also Catholic numb nuts or did you forget about our history.

Answer 28

Canada does this in cycles. They put the extreme liberals in. And in

a short period of time. Go through a vote of No confidence. Kick the

bastards out and put someone else in. Wish we had that feature in

our system. Obama would have been history 6 years ago.

Answer 29

Harper was anti-Muslim

Answer 30

conservatives were boring

Answer 31

10 years is enough.

Answer 32

he was not running against Pierre Trudeau.



hope you can see this



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5ckcTSYu8

Answer 33

Not sure if troll or serious.



I'm thinking troll.

Answer 34

2 terms is ENOUGH for any elected PM

Answer 35

coz dey r dumb

Answer 36

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