🇨🇦 Liberals Attracting Floor-Crossers as the Big Red Tent Swallows the Opposition

Carney's Liberals are now pulling in support from across party lines, with politicians who were never Liberals suddenly discovering their inner progressive now that the polling looks comfortable. CBC frames this as a sign of the party's broadening appeal, as though opportunism and ideological consolidation are the same thing. They are not. What's happening is the predictable collapse of a fractured centre-right into the gravitational pull of a government that controls the money, the narrative, and the media subsidies.

This is not pluralism. This is consolidation. When ambitious politicians start migrating toward power regardless of platform, what you get is not a big tent — you get a one-party state with better PR. Canadians who voted for alternatives to Liberal governance are now watching their representatives defect in real time. The question of who actually holds power in this country, and what ideology drives it, is becoming less ambiguous by the week.

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