In most of Canada, municipal voters are not political party animals. How did that happen?

In most of Canada, municipal voters are not political party animals. How did that happen? It is a truism that Canadian politics is dominated by the major parties—Liberal and Conservative, with the New Democrats picking up some support over the years. But at the municipal level, a different story emerges. In cities across the country, from Halifax to Vancouver, voters tend not to align themselves strongly with any of the traditional political parties. A new report from the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) and the Environics Institute finds that Canadians are far more likely to s…