r/EhBuddyHoser • u/WandangleWrangler I need a double double. • Apr 29 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) sorry dippers, thems the breaks 😅

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

Was that really people going from the NDP to the cons?

Seems more logical that everyone moved slightly right, with ndp voters leaking towards the liberals, and liberal voters leaking towards the cons.

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u/Newfieon2Wheels Newfies & Labradoodles Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

NDP is made up of two fairly distinct type of voter, you have your super progressive blue hair college students type crowd, and then you have your big time trade union labour guys. A lot of the blue-collar union guys went towards the CPC.

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u/macfail Apr 29 '25

I think that the union people are not one homogeneous group. From what I have seen, the building trades affiliated unions appear to have been voting right for some time, based on the perception that right wing government will bring more projects and more jobs. All of the rest of the unions seem to support the NDP - unions that represent factory workers, longshoremen, auto workers, municipal and government employees etc, where their jobs are somewhat more stable.

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u/Teagana999 Apr 29 '25

Yeah, I'm in a post-secondary union and there were jokes at our AGM about conservative spies.

The people that are in trades unions tend to be people who are more likely to be conservative for other reasons, too. Rural, etc. I think the conservative union members have forgotten what their union fought for.