How can Bernier attract the moderate left?

[Machjo]

The main claim of the left is its desire to help the poor. The dairy cartel  benefits farmers at the expense of poor consumers. I don't see how any principled leftist can support the dairy cartel.

Free trade helps poor Canadian consumers and poor foreign workers. How can the principled left oppose free trade?

The left generally supports more open immigration to help the poor, but how does spending millions of poor working-class people's hard-earned taxes help the poor? Now let's say Bernier made it easier for a foreign national to visit, study, work, or do business in Canada but more difficult for that person to collect social assistance in Canada, that would still present the argument of giving poor foreigners more opportunities without burdening poor Canadians so much, and so helping the poor all around.

I think if he adapts his policies to show Canadians how these policies can benefit the world's poor, he might stand a chance to win over at least some moderate left voters.

Edited August 24, 2018 by Machjo

[Michael Hardner]

The left and right have no logic to what they support and don't support... it's not consistent for either group.

[SpankyMcFarland]

I presume you're asking rhetorical questions there because you should know full well how toxic these policies are on the left if you've talked to any lefties. Divide politics into quadrants: Bernier is a low tax nativist while most left wingers are high tax multiculturalists. So the answer is he can't attract them for policy reasons and probably not many right of centre voters for various other good reasons, including that his defection looks like a matter of petulance as much as principle. 

Edited August 24, 2018 by SpankyMcFarland