I can has unsurprised.

[kennahijja]

First of all,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, melusinahp!
*hugs hard and snuggles*


And secondly, filched from coffe_n_cocoa, the Politics Meme:

You are a Social Liberal (91% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (8% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test It took me a moment to figure out that, in an US context, 'economic liberal' may not be an in-your-face insult ;).

Comments

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Which made me realise I know nothing about the Canadian political spectrum - is it comparable to the US (within limits, she hastens to add...).

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

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.