censorship is something that conservatives are supposed to believe in, in order to protect the youth from ideas it considers to be dangerous. that is practically the definition of conservatism, and if you believe in any sort of censorship, i will label you right-wing and call you a conservative. this idea of left-wing censorship is a contradiction in terms. if some supposed left-wing group tries to censor you, what they're demonstrating to you is that they aren't left wing at all, they're conservatives.
conversely, liberals reject censorship and believe in free expression, perhaps subject to stringent rules that can be modified in extreme circumstances. i believe in almost total free speech, except where there's an existing power imbalance. institutions with power that would advance dangerous ideas need to be restricted from doing so. functionally, that means that i believe and promote virtually any type of free expression, except for religion. i strongly oppose the idea of religious freedom, and rather argue very aggressively that religion needs to be severely restricted in it's operating ability by a secular state. an ideal society would dispense of religion altogether, and the question in front of secularists, humanists, progressives, socialists, liberals and other leftists is how to discard of and eliminate religion in an enlightened fashion that minimizes the required oppression in that goal to what is necessary to get to that end.
supposed leftists that argue in favour of religious tolerance are in fact really conservatives.
this is a political spectrum based on what the words conservative and liberal actually mean, and it is what i enforce when i write.
by those definitions, mark carney, justin trudeau and joe biden are all conservatives, as was barack obama. donald trump, on the other hand, is more or less a liberal. michael ignatieff was a conservative, whereas stephane dion was the last liberal leader of the liberal party in canada. bill clinton and both george bushes were both broadly categorized as liberals, as was ronald reagan and jimmy carter. stephen harper was a conservative, but brian mulroney was a liberal.
i could go on for a while but you get the point.
i'm not interested in party affiliation, i'm interested in what the parties actually say and where they actually exist on the spectrum.
it's relatively clear that pierre polievre and mark carney are both conservatives, but carney is far more conservative than polievre. carney is distinctly and firmly on the right, whereas polievre is more of a centre-right, which is about where trudeau was.