The donor group is made up mostly of Canadian Muslim professionals, such as lawyers and doctors. Formed in December 2014, the group helped Justin Trudeau to his first election victory in 2015.
The group says it has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Liberal Party annually since December 2014. One member of the group — whose donation records CBC News verified with Elections Canada — has contributed nearly $19,000 to the Liberals since the group’s foundation.
I don’t think this will have any bearing on the election — it isn’t as if they’re going to support the Conservatives.
They could. It’s happening in the states, where people once labeled as rapists by the Commander in Cheese now support his re-election, simply because no one is reminding them that Biden quietly did a bunch a things, and they’ve been hoodwinked to voting “anyone but crooked old Biden”.
We are no better.
Possible, but assuming they’ve been following the news, they’ve probably noticed Conservatives have been at least as pro-Israel as Liberals. It’d be interesting if they backed the NDP, but I would be surprised if they did.
Muslim groups have backed the NDP at the local level before
There’s not much point in backing them nation-wide since they just don’t have enough broad support to form a government
On most issues, Muslims would naturally back conservative agendas, but immigration and other minority issues draw them left at the polls
If there’s one interesting point to the Israel/Palestine conflict, it’s that it’s badly shaken up the political consensus that took most of the 2010s to build:
I’m not sure how this is going to shake out, but if I were to bet, I’d say it’ll fracture on haves/have-nots and powerful/disenfranchised.
So situation normal?