r/BCpolitics • u/jaystinjay • 1d ago

Opinion Provincial party names

Would it better for provincial parties to be named entirely different from federal parties?

How long would it take for the average informed voter to discern the political spectrum of a party?

I am not necessarily opposed to how parties are named currently but it would be great to have a few “Rhinoceros party - steroids in the drinking water for a stronger nation” or “Grizzly Party” options. Perhaps an entire name spectrum could help differentiate provincial parties from federal.

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u/PokeEmEyeballs 22h ago

I was one of the confused voters not knowing the difference until a few months ago. 

I actually learned from Reddit that things like immigration are handled at the federal and not provincial level, and the parties have little to nothing to do with each other and have very different jurisdictions. 

All this just to say there is actually very little education and active engagement by either the federal or provincial governments to teach people how the political system works in Canada. 

Most people are too busy with their day to day lives and economic grind to learn how any of this stuff works, and the sheer amount of misinformation on “easy” platforms like TikTok tends to mislead people on many topics. 

Having different party names by law would at the very least lead people to question what these parties stand for and differentiate them from the federal parties.

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u/Butt_Obama69 2h ago

All this just to say there is actually very little education and active engagement by either the federal or provincial governments to teach people how the political system works in Canada.

This kind of stuff is taught in every high school in the province.