The “Conservative” Party is now in the low 40’s in support, and the People’s Party has about ~3 percent.
People are not happy, and want drastically reduced immigration, lower taxes, less green garbage, less trans garbage, an end to slack policing etc...
But they don’t want any unpleasantness or nastiness. They don’t personally want to sign on to “controversial” or “unpopular” reforms. They don’t want to publically support the type of politicians who might do any of that. They don’t want to risk social or elite disapproval, possible problems at work, and they don’t want to publically support “low status” opinions.
And they also don’t believe any reform will ever happen. They know from past experience that politicians who hint at change on these things just lie and break their promises, or the Courts will block it.
So people don’t believe it will ever change. So they don’t want to expose themselves in support of something that will never happen.
So they just keep voting for the fake “Conservatives”, or they will vote for the Liberals again after Trudeau is replaced. Or they just don’t vote.
This situation is not unique to Canada. It is the same in Britain, the other European countries, and in the United States.
The USA is somewhat unique that Trump does campaign on some of these issues, he did get elected, and he did do some of it, and certainly tried.
But Trump is a unique figure. And has no successor. You just look at the Senate candidates, and the other people that ran against him, and the behaviour of the Republican Senators and Members of Congress, and it is clear that after Trump goes, it will be back to business as usual and nothing will ever happen on these issues.
Yep that about sums it up. Pretty bleak actually.