- they don't believe in free speech anymore. like, at all. that needs to be corrected and needs to be a dominant priority.
- they prioritize religion over freedom and even take the orwellian phrase "religious freedom" seriously.
- the pandemic. all of it. although it should be pointed out that the conservatives at the provincial level were actually worse.
- they want to control what and how you post on the internet
- they want to take away facebook and tiktok
this is a small subset, but these are issues that get people up off the couch and out to vote and there's a long list of ways that the liberals (mostly under trudeau) went out of their way to control and dominate, which isn't what liberals or the left are supposed to do, it's what conservatives are supposed to do.
if you were to test them on issues, you would see canadian kids are probably even more left-wing than kids elsewhere, but what they're reacting to is the fact that the conservatives are running to the left of the liberals on social issues because the liberals have swung so ridiculously far to the right on them that it's allowed them to do that.
this is in fact actually happening in the united states, too. it's why donald trump is in power. on scores of cultural and social issues that actually matter to voters, the republicans are running well to the left of the democrats, nowadays. the republicans, however, also have a series of issues where they threaten peoples' rights, like abortion, that prevents them from really swinging out to the left of the democrats the way that the conservatives are swinging out to the left of the liberals.
the ndp voting base is currently up for grabs. a lot of it has already swung to the conservatives, and a lot of them are young people. they could complete the transition of the conservatives into the canadian left, as the liberals continue to consolidate the canadian right.