What’s fascinating about yesterday’s public spat is that it demonstrates that the federal Conservatives are willing to jump into bed with urban progressive local politicians in their quest to win over younger urban voters. [...] The common enemy for Poilievre’s Conservatives and the urban progressive councillors is … a bunch of conservative (and sometimes Conservative) Calgary City Councillors. Calgary is the spiritual home of the Canadian conservative movement, and suddenly the city councillors who were holding the line against ‘progressive silliness’ are being taken to task by their federal comrades.
It is a gamble, but Calgary being such an overwhelming CPC stronghold, they can probably afford to shed some votes in order to pick up demographics that otherwise would not vote for them. I'm genuinely curious to see if it pays off—not out of any personal investment in the CPC, but it would be a very interesting shift in Canadian politics. The NDP and Liberals have owned the youth vote for such a long time. Recently, it seems like it is flipping, where the LPC hangs onto the 55+ vote and the CPC are chasing the 18-35 year-old demographic.