Harper kept social issues out of his government and Scheer has made it clear he will do the same. That won't stop the leftwing career undergrads coming out with warnings about parallels to Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and Mike Pence... The Conservatives support a strong economy while the Liberals support career protesters and bloated public sector unions. Trudeau and Notley are making "real" gains among the (Tides-funded) professional protesters when it comes to pipelines - the narrative about a "social license" independent of the rule of law is paying off huge "goodwill" dividends in BC in Quebec after Trudeau's plan for a carbon tax... It's not as if the "social license" was simply an unachievable ruse that can be amended and changed on a whim in order to sabotage resource development, indefinitely if possible. It's not as if the professional protesters oppose all development outright based on ignorant short-sighted idealism and a contempt for the rule of law...