EDMONTON — While Alberta is unlikely to separate anytime soon, frustration in western Canada suggests there’s the potential for the rise of a regionally specific political party to represent the West in Ottawa. “This poll finds a hypothetical ‘Western Canada Party’ leading or tied for the lead in vote intention in each of the four western provinces,” the report says. Nobody has yet stepped forward to create an explicitly western political party. Only in Manitoba does this hypothetical party not take the lead — and even then it’s tied at 27 per cent with the Conservative party. Still, the Angus Reid polling found that support for a western party drew intended votes from all other major political parties, the New Democrats, the Liberals and the Conservatives.

Source: National Post February 05, 2019 07:07 UTC