Politicians are taken from the general public; the general public in Canada is reflexively leftist. We've been indoctrinated for over 50 years (arguably since Pearson was PM) that "government is good". You are not going to get elected if you stray toooooo far from what the general public likes/wants.
So, ya.
All you are going to get in the House of Commons is "leftist leftists" (NDP), "leftists" (LPC), and "right-leaning leftists" (CPC) because that is all the voters will tolerate. Oh, there are other parties (PPC, Libertarian, CHP, etc.) but they don't get enough backing to get elected.
The problem is culture. Politics is downstream of culture. It took decades to get to this point; it will take decades of working within the culture to get back out of it.
It's deeper than that.
Politicians are taken from the general public; the general public in Canada is reflexively leftist. We've been indoctrinated for over 50 years (arguably since Pearson was PM) that "government is good". You are not going to get elected if you stray toooooo far from what the general public likes/wants.
So, ya.
All you are going to get in the House of Commons is "leftist leftists" (NDP), "leftists" (LPC), and "right-leaning leftists" (CPC) because that is all the voters will tolerate. Oh, there are other parties (PPC, Libertarian, CHP, etc.) but they don't get enough backing to get elected.
The problem is culture. Politics is downstream of culture. It took decades to get to this point; it will take decades of working within the culture to get back out of it.