Canada 1993

[King of Kensington]

...so many angles in which to look at this.  How would if it have been different if Dave Barrett led the NDP and the Tories had picked Jean Charest instead of Kim Campbell?

[King of Kensington]

For the NDP, Dave Barrett obviously would have taken the "no" side on Charlottetown which couldn't have done any more damage in Ontario but might have flied better in the West.  Maybe they could have gotten 20 across the country at most.  It seems Reform represented more of a protest vote in BC, while in say Saskatchewan it was a real ideological shift to the right: after all traditionally NDP seats eventually went home in BC but became Conservative strongholds in Sask.