I'm a liberal party supporter, having voted for them since 2015, and 4 of the 6 last elections.(2011 was the Bloc and 2019 was a throwaway vote for the PPC in a safe LPC riding)
And I will say this, this is a bad a campaign as I've seen since 2011, at least off the bat. When the writ was dropped, I expected the LPC to run on all the vaccines they got. I expected the LPC to hammer home that we are one of the most highly vaccinated countries on the planet. I expected them to remind Canadians that O'Toole said Canada would be vaccinated in 2030, and show that we are mostly fully vaccinated in 2021, before the September deadline. I expected them to come up with a real plan to show how they were going to deal with the housing crisis, a real problem for millennials that voted for him in 2015.
Instead, mandatory vaccines as a campaign wedge issue? Vaccines were nicely unpolitical for all parties, and now he's making them into a political issue. Its gross. It reeks of what is going on in the states.
He is making abortion a campaign issue? This isn't 2019, and O'Toole, for all his faults, is not Andrew Sheer. He isn't making the daily awkward statements on abortion that can be construed as encroaching on a woman's right to an abortion.
The LPC is making the same mistakes that the CPC did in 2015, running a negative campaign on issues that the public frankly doesn't care about. This is not sunny ways, this is not forward facing, this is a campaign that is banking on people being afraid of a Harper rerun, which is not nearly as relevant 6 years removed from Harpers last term, and definitely irrelevant in a world grappling with covid19 and its fallout.
He said he wanted to have this campaign in the middle of a pandemic to allow Canadians a choice on how to move forward. Fine. Show me something, anything on how the LPC would lead Canada into the future. Focusing on abortion like its 2019 and largely ignoring things like housing is an amazing failure. Making vaccines political is a bad look.
I hope that they adjust and do better, otherwise a minority parliament with the NDP forcing through real progressive legislation via a minority Parliament is far better than this so far aimless campaign being given a majority.