Failure to launch: Why Canada Avoided a Populist Turn

Luke Laframboise
Nov 5 · 7 min read
Maxime Bernier, Leader of the People’s Party of Canada trying, and failing, to turn a nation.

So, as we are quickly trying to forget, we finished up our most recent election here in Canada a few weeks ago. It went about as well as you can expect for a race that saw the ruling party knocked down from commanding majority to a weak minority. This is despite their main competition being embodied by an outdated conservative stereotype in a cheap suit. As better writers than I have noted ad

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Luke Laframboise

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A wayward Canadian with a Master’s in Political Science with a more opinions than is perhaps good for anyone.

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