Well, the almost complete absence of religion from Canadian political debate (despite the vigorous efforts of the current PM and his Yankee-lovin' lickspittles) does make for a considerable difference.
Regional rivalries are much more important at the federal level than social/religious ones. Each region has its own idiosyncracies, though in most provinces the significant urban/rural divide does have a large impact on provincial politics. In some regions, class plays a much more important role in Canadian politics than it does in the US.
But generally speaking the large majority of Canadians would be floating somewhere in that large dark grey area labelled Democrat in the diagram above. There would be some regional idiosyncracies (Alberta would skew very much to the top half of the diagram, but they're very much more like Americans than the rest of Canadians), but we do tend to be more centrist on economic policy and liberal on social policy. We have our loony left and loony right-wings, but I think that's true of everywhere.
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Date: 2008-09-20 03:51 pm (UTC)Regional rivalries are much more important at the federal level than social/religious ones. Each region has its own idiosyncracies, though in most provinces the significant urban/rural divide does have a large impact on provincial politics. In some regions, class plays a much more important role in Canadian politics than it does in the US.
But generally speaking the large majority of Canadians would be floating somewhere in that large dark grey area labelled Democrat in the diagram above. There would be some regional idiosyncracies (Alberta would skew very much to the top half of the diagram, but they're very much more like Americans than the rest of Canadians), but we do tend to be more centrist on economic policy and liberal on social policy. We have our loony left and loony right-wings, but I think that's true of everywhere.