Canada’s population is about 50 per cent more than Australia’s, 38 million to our 26 million. Yet get this. The main right-of-centre political party in Canada, the Conservative party (or Tory party), has about 700,000 paid-up party members. Yes, you read that correctly. Meanwhile, here in Australia the Liberal party probably has somewhere between 20 and 30,000 members tops.
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