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The PPC won't make headway in the 905: they're not a pocketbook party.
I know this seems weird, but Durham isn't really socially conservative in the way that the PPC is. For one, there's a lot of immigrants there, propping up the housing market, and two, they aren't really concerned about gay or trans rights, at least as long as they don't have to pay for it.
What is scary, though, is that the CPC's social push to the right--to playing footsie with fascism--is going to radicalize places like Durham, York and Halton. The CPC is trying to tie economic conservatism to social conservatism, largely because they remember the 1990s and the Reform/PC split that kicked them out of office for a long time, and they don't want a repeat.