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I'm curious, what attracted you to the Conservatives prior to the Maple-MAGA movement?
the last 4 elections I'd voted L > C > C > L
Im a moderate. I thought that the Trudeau Liberals had gone too far left back during the Scheer and Otoole days. Come this time around, I just lost any confidence I had in the Conservative party because they built their identity on "we're not the liberals". and failed to convince me they werent just going to kowtow to American Corpo-Fascist interests.
But if you would have asked me about specific policies that irked me to turn Conservative during the past .. its been a long time, I'd probably just point to specific times and incidents over the gun policy, immigration, corruption with the SNC lavalin scandal, and maybe foreign policy. I live in a very ignorant and uneducated town in a NS riding that had been pretty hardcore conservative the last 2-3 elections, and my peers probably played a hand in influencing my issues. I thought our riding was solidly going to remain Conservative, CTV projected Cons won, but several hours later they reversed it and Libs have apparentley won it.
Foreign Policy has always been a major "issue" of mine too, Until 2025 when we were faced with the nonzero possibility of actual aggression and conflict with America, the biggest thing that would influence my vote was how seriously the party was going to take the issue of us being more or less, de-facto at war with Russia, Because the "shadow" World War III is something that in my mind took precedent.
Not the original commentor, but the people I've discussed this with usually say one of 4 things. These aren't necessarily my views, just what I've heard from others:
The left has dropped the ball on crime. Official lefty party lines on crime, of tolerating criminals, doesn't resonate with ordinary people.
The right has created a wedge issue, and exploited it with Twitter trolls and paid shills. We'd be better off doing what Australia did, and ban almost everything.
The right sees it as building more housing, and think it is a simple fix. A small proportion of progressive voices see it as a complex issue of finance and trying to remove corporate ownership of residential stock. The subtle arguments have a hard time being heard.
I've given up mostly, the planet will burn. Our species is too stupid, eventually we'll go extinct. Climate will degrade, wars will escalate, and sooner or latter someone will push The Button.
I completely agree with everything you’ve said.