Political Parties In Canada

Canadian Political parties are not strictly or permanently based on the political ideologies they are sometime names after. It is true that some begin with the idea of representing a specific ideology, but over time the influence of outside forces and the need to stay relevant in the eyes of the voting population and large organizations, among other things can and often does cause changes and these changes lead to an overall shift in the political parties policy and the founding ideology. The liberal party of Canada and the conservative party are two of the major parties in the country and they both can be used to a degree as examples of how parties shift away from foundations in Canada. The liberal party of Canada is the current leading …show more content…
The Green Party of Canada is a fairly clear example of this. This party’s foundation as much to do with, as the name would suggest, issues of particular relation to environmental issues such as climate change policies. The Green Party of Canada, are a very environmentally conscious party that focuses on more of the far future and the present environment problems. Their strength is that they plan for a big investment for our future such as stopping the export of CANDU reactors, conserving energy, and planning for our children. Their biggest weakness may be that they are lacking in ideology, too far fetched and that citizens think it is not necessary to think too far ahead, because there are more problems to deal with now than the future.
Moving on from the individual parties, we come to the subject of how parties in Canada function and how they polarize over time. Political polarization refers to the difference in political attitude to ideological limits. Polarization can also refer to divergences in public suggestions and opinion within a certain group or division. All factors of politics require polarization in the democratic and political parties centered at directing the government. When polarization happens to befall a country, reasonable voices usually loose powers and …show more content…
It is asserted by some scholars that elite polarization galvanized the participation of politicians by the crowd because of the high voting, innovation of participants and also through greater involvement in the in investments in strategized campaigns. Much of their research proposes that moving on the negative line encourages controversial of wisdom which stimulates the voter’s appetite into matters that bring complains (Sinclair,