Haunting the Left: Conservatives Conquering October Provincial Elections.
Going to the Polls: Canadian Provincial Elections October 2024
Backdated, Friday September 27 2024
The Canadian political scene is getting interesting. On September 25th, the NDP and Bloc Quebecois joined the Liberals in defeating Poilievre’s non-confidence motion by a vote of 211 to 120. At the provincial level, there are three elections scheduled for October.
Battle For British Columbia: EBY VS. RUSTAD
The B.C. provincial general election is scheduled for October 19th. There are 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia - 47 seats are needed for a majority. The BC NDP won 57 seats, 47.70% of the British Columbia popular vote in the last election. BC Conservatives won 0 seats, and only 1.91% while the BC Greens won 2 seats and 15.08% of the popular vote. Writ day, when the campaign period officially begins September 21, 2024.
David Eby and John Rustad will battle it out as the main two competitors for premier since Kevin Falcon has announced that BC United is suspending its campaign and endorsing John Rustad’s BC conservatives. This comes after John Rustad was kicked out of BC United for questioning climate change science August 18, 2022. Since then, the BC conservatives have risen from 6% to 45% in the polls.
John Rustad’s courage to challenge Kevin Falcon on the consequences of climate policy for British Columbia energy and economy has largely contributed to his rise in popularity. Job losses, higher costs of living, and favoring the globalist agenda over Canada’s national interests will be the main factors at play for Eby to hold on to power.
Battle for Saskatchewan: MOE VS BECK
The 2024 Saskatchewan general election will be held on or before October 28th. There are 61 seats in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan - 31 seats are needed for a majority. Premier and leader of the Saskatchewan Party, Scott Moe won 48 seats, 60.67% of the Saskatchewan popular vote last election. Carla Beck won 13 seats, 31.82% of the Saskatchewan popular vote last election.
Moe has been in the hot seat for his freedom oriented stance during the pandemic and his parental rights stance on school pronoun policy. Moe’s Parents’ Bill of Rights released last year invokes the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to ensure parents must provide consent if a child wants to change their gender identification in school.
Battle for New Brunswick: HIGGS VS HOLT
The New Brunswick general election will be held on October 21st with all 49 seats up for grabs. Premier and Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs is facing stiff competition from Susan Holt’s New Brunswick Liberals. Last election, the Progressive Conservatives won 27 seats, 39.34% of the New Brunswick popular vote last election while the Liberals won 17 seats, 34.35% of the New Brunswick popular vote. David Coon won 3 seats, 15.24% of the New Brunswick popular vote last election. Rick DeSaulniers won 2 seats, 9.19% of the New Brunswick popular vote last election.
Blaine Higgs was the first premier to legislate on school pronoun policy back on May 13 with Policy 713. Policy 713 states, “Formal use of preferred first name for transgender or non-binary students under the
age of 16 will require parental consent.”
Will Social Conservative Policy Make a Comeback?
Despite the federal Liberals best efforts, there could be a social conservative wave across the country. From contraceptive funding, to parental rights, to immigration, most of the province's future premiers could consider embracing certain social conservative stances. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade pushing abortion legislation decisions to the state level, it makes me wonder, will there be a resurgent social conservative movement in Canadian provincial politics?
The left will be using thiese elections as an opportunity To slander the social conservative movement. if Higgs and Moe lose, leftist messaging will blame their pro parental rights stances as the cause of their defeat. This isn't necessarily a fair conclusion because Higgs and Moe only made these decisions to stop the lunacy of woke ideology infecting schools after a significant amount of polling showed that this is what parents wanted in those provinces.
Canada’s provincial political landscape could change drastically in just one month. Keep your eyes on politicians as voters go to the polls!