I voted yesterday and I brought 2 friends with me who have never voted before. But I've been trying to educate them on politics for months now. We all voted Conservative. Then we went for breakfast. We went as soon as the polling station opened and there was no line up, but there was lots of people already there.
I had an interesting discussion with my neighbour on Friday night. (I had a little bonfire in the backyard with friends.) My neighbour, Phil, is about 80 and he has NDP signs on his lawn. He said he has voted Liberal in the past (and sometimes NDP) but he won't vote Lib this time because he feels this gov't totally forgot about and ignored the West for the last 10 years. Phil used to be a nurse and he said the pandemic restrictions went on far too long, long after we knew it was only the very elderly and the very ill who were at any risk. He said it didn't surprise him when the convoy happened because the Liberals were catering to the laptop class for far longer than necessary. The laptop class was able to "stay home, stay safe" while the people they looked down on, the peons, delivered Skip The Dishes to them and delivered groceries. He describes the laptop class as mostly Ontario, while the West has the farmers, the oilfield workers, the ones working to keep the country running and the Liberal gov't shat on all those people.
I asked him how we can get Ontarians to care about the rest of Canada and he said they never will. They never have. He said the only thing we can do is turn off the equalization taps. Stop giving the laptop class the money that the real workers in Canada are forced to fork over.
Even though we are voting differently, I agree with Phil on these things.