Groundbreaking wrote:
Vote for me because I'm not the Liberals seems to be the best they've got.
This works a treat on Canadian voters and they all know it, many examples most recently by T2 over Harper. Trudeau won on a platform made up of 90% horseshit, buzzy silly crap like election reform and weed. All he had to do was to invent a fake counterpoint to "The Old Guys" to capture people's imaginations, it didn't need to be doable or valuable or even desirable. It worked, people loved it, and he would never have been elected without it.
Fordsie won't have anything too surprising to say anyway, actual conservatism is fairly predictable and boring. Also they don't want to go tipping their hand unnecessarily or early, for fear of spooking the buyer like Whatshisface did in 2014. Ford will "reveal" his platform only if questions become louder, only if he thinks it will cost him a majority. Otherwise surf's up, no worries! Scheer will have a harder time defeating T2 though, but I can't wait to see him try.