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?
Kavdlunait (plural) was the Inuit word for foreigner or European, compare modern Greenlandic qallunaaq (”Dane”), formerly spelled ĸavdlunâĸ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling