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[–] androgynouscloudmoon@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm in Texas and have been looking into Manitoba, and can assure you based on their parties alone that it's "only right-wing in the context of Canada" 100%.

I have no idea what adding Minnesota would do though, it would completely change politics in the area even if it was its own province, never mind the US actually allowing that to happen.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Hmm. Manitoba is run by Wab Kinew/the NDP…socialists.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, they support universal healthcare and abortion. The Manitoba PC is kind of a mix.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf the only reason the PCs support abortion is because of our Supreme Court struck down the laws that criminalized it.

In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Morgentaler that the existing law was unconstitutional, and struck down the 1969 Act. The ruling found that the 1969 abortion law violated a woman's right to "life, liberty and security of the person" guaranteed under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms established in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada

Former PM Stephen Harper then put the last nail in the coffin when he announced the federal PCs would not challenge the ruling. This is because although abortion is considered legal here there is no law on the books that makes it so. If the PCs were to challenge the SCoC's ruling they would likely force the feds to make a law the enshrined abortion care as legal.

Oh don't worry, I'm under no delusion it's some sort of leftist utopia, it's just that Manitoba could be FAR worse. Please keep fighting for those rights regardless of whatever laws are in place, don't just assume it's all settled.