Pass on the gaslighting, and ignore parties’ petty strategic vote scare tactics

What strategic voting will result in is a U.S.-style, two-party system, where the Liberals and Conservatives benefit from gaslighting Canadians into voting for them.

Both Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, left, spent the Thanksgiving weekend stumping on the dangers of not electing their respective parties to a majority government. But strategic voting isn’t an actual strategy for political change, write Erica Ifill and Amy Kishek. Photographs courtesy of Twitter

Opinion

BY AMY KISHEK, ERICA IFILL

October 16, 2019

OTTAWA—In true Canadian fashion, with just days left in the election, the political calculations of strategic voting are being trotted out. The problem is, strategic voting is as effective as autocorrect: in clutch moments, the prescribed option can become the wrong one. The Liberals are taking o...

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