Its not even close to a resounding rejection. Not when you look at the whole country.
Canada is almost evenly divided
I'd probably be writing the same thing if the results were flipped, but this is straight copium. Canada has 2 right wing parties, 1 centrist, and 3 left wing parties.
Roughly
Green - NDP - Bloc - Liberal - Conservative - PPC
Vote share for left leaning parties was 57%. Right - leaning was 42%. There are easily 10 ridings where the NDP and Liberal vote overwhelmed the conservative vote, but the conservative won with ~35%.
The Conservative - Reform alliance is a blessing and a curse: It allows the conservatives to stay competitive, but limits their reach because centrists can't stomach the hard line reformers.
PP Comes from the Reform branch, and we've seen the limits of his appeal to the general public.
Also this: People vote, land doesn't. Everything not dark blue is a progressive seat. Even Doug Ford has figured out that you can't win elections on social conservatism.
The bulk of the Conservative's support is Sask and Alberta. They are a regional grievance party in line with the Bloc. They are just riding the corpse of Mulroney's PC's for another few elections until the 905/705 figures out their shit.
