TORONTO — With the leadership debates now in the rear-view mirror and polls showing a close race between the Liberals and Conservatives, the issue of vote-splitting is becoming increasingly significant ahead of the Sept. 20 federal election, according to pollster Nik Nanos.
“If you’re [Conservative Leader] Erin O’Toole and play fantasy politics, you’d say ‘what would the world look like without Maxime Bernier?’” Nanos said on Friday’s edition of CTV’s Trend Line podcast. “On the other side of that we’ve got the NDP. I imagine there’s quite a few ridings where Justin Trudeau might be sweating, considering NDP support.”
Vote splitting can only happen between similarly aligned parties. In Canada the CPC and LPC are not much different from one another and the NDP is simply their weird cousin.
There is no vote splitting between the CPC and the PPC, the CPC is liberal the PPC conservative.
