It’s not just the far left who are hostile to the Christian faith, there are lots of atheists around who talk in terms of people of faith being “a big problem” and how it will be good when we are all gone (I think they mean through natural attrition as most of us are older). These are not wild-eyed Trots toked up on weed but your ordinary middle class Canadians who vote Liberal because their god already came down to earth.
I think the wild-eyed leftists I mentioned are mostly voting for other parties than the Liberals too, just to be clear, they probably vote NDP or Green, or even for their own kind (the Marxist-Leninist and Communist parties of Canada are not banned from elections and can get as many as two or three hundred votes in some urban ridings). I did an experiment once where I registered as an independent and then didn’t campaign, just to find out how many votes a complete outsider would get presumably from mistakes made at the voting booth, or a name choice at random. My vote total was 44, however, I had attended one all-candidates meeting at the university in town and if I subtracted my votes at that polling station, my total was eight. So from that I concluded that an independent with no platform or name recognition would get a very small number of votes at random. So getting back to the 200-300 vote totals for communists, that seems to indicate the presence of that many communist sympathizers in any given urban population of about 100,000 (that being the average size of a federal riding in Canada). Back in the day Winnipeg was known as a hotbed of radicalism and elected communists to parliament between the world wars.
Entire change of subject, but one wonders what the Indians called the Vikings. Maybe blow-ins? Or would that only be the Irish?