Dissecting the Liberals decline

After that dismal loss I think for my own purposes I need to rationalize what happened to the political party that I liked and supported and thought actually had a chance. First of all the Liberals have been bleeding supporters since the days of Trudeau mania and before. The first segment of the Canadian voter to leave was the western vote, and of course the "National Energy Program" introduced in 1980 didn't help. We then have the departure of the Unions to the NDP and big business to the Conservatives, this was all around about the same time period. In the 1980's it was the the French Canadian vote where in 1980 the Liberals held 74 seats in Quebec and in 1984 they only held 17seats there. all along their was a steady decline in the religious vote to the right wing Conservative, probably alot of that was through the acquisition of votes from the Social Credit party and the Co-operative Commonwealth Party. Now in this election the Liberals have seem to have lost the new Canadians or ethnic vote, largely impart to the steady hard work of the Conservatives to secure these votes. What I find interesting is that the Liberals haven't had much if any success in Alberta since the days of Wilfrid Laurier back in 1908. Another thing to note is that up until the 1980's Quebec had always had a Liberal majority, all the way through Canada's history. Anyways I think that it is extremely important to know exactly where you came from in order to get yourself out of what your in, and for the Liberals that is a fall from the greatest national party that seem to be the natural governing party throughout Canada's rich history.
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