The election reflects a microcosm of anxieties playing out not only in Canada, but across much of the Western world and beyond
Maybe the prospect of all that outside attention being focused on their peaceful little community worried Prince Edward Islanders enough to hold off on electing the country’s first Green Party government.
Nevertheless, the election bears close inspection, as it reflects a microcosm of anxieties playing out not only in Canada, but across much of the Western world and beyond. Perhaps most of all, the parties, their leaders and their candidates appeared to agree that voters are fed up with the same-old same-old of professional politicians denouncing one another as the spawn of Satan while offering up platforms filled with fairy dust and golden horizons they can’t possibly deliver.
While it’s unlikely that good fellowship and bipartisan fervour is about to sweep the country, the yearning for a retreat from self-serving nastiness is hardly limited to parts of the Atlantic provinces. People have been flailing about for alternatives for some time now. When Rob Ford campaigned for his ill-fated Toronto mayoralty almost a decade ago, it was on the slogan “Stop the gravy train.” Donald Trump became president as a show of utter disgust at the partisan swamp Washington had become.
On a more prosaic level, P.E.I.’s election results carry some shorter-term messages for Canadian leaders. One lies in the fate of outgoing premier Wade MacLauchlan, who failed to win his own seat as the Liberal government fell from 18 seats at the past election to just six, and less than 30 per cent of the vote.
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