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Singh just stepped down and hopefully the change will mean more potential for the NDP in the next election.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I fully wish that we could have a country and a political environment where we could support and stand by a visible minority to represent a major political party. But I have to temper that with the knowledge that our country is not fully ready for that kind of person. As much as we would like to believe that we could become a more progressive, open and accepting culture, we are still not there and it will be a few more decades or lifetimes before that can become a reality.
It would be more possible if we actually had an election system that was more representative of our people’s wishes … Proportional Representation would make it more possible to have major political leaders and politicians who represented visible minorities.
Wab Kinew seems to be doing well. But I don’t know if MB would give him up.
That smile of his creeps me out.
No way. His smile is contagious. It just seems odd because its so rare to see a politician with a genuine smile and not a carefully crafted one.
I would honestly love to see Wab Kinew take a run at the federal leadership.
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“We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.It’s not even a coalition.
Coallitons are when the party with the most seats (but not a majority) doesn’t form government because the other parties all work together to form government.
When the party with the most seats (but not majority) forms government with the help of another party on non confidence votes , it’s just a minority government.
They just try to scare people with the coalition talk to try and make it seem nefarious, such as when it almost happened to Harper, but it’s a legitimate part of how our government works.
There was a point while votes were being counted tonight, we could have theoretically had a con+bq coalition government.
Edit: and even as of right now, the cons+bq+ndp could form a coalition, but I can’t imagine those 3 parties ever working together other than to trigger an election via vote of no confidence.
That was awesome.
Yeah. The staying on as leader thing can be put down to the “close loss” speech being written ahead of time. Not sure why he didn’t change that part, though.
He could still get his seat, technically.
“That’s not an applause line.” lol
The comment about Fanjoy potentially winning! Oooh roasted!
The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.
now only 3.5% apart at 225/266 polls. Could we skunk Mr Polyester?
PP lost his seat, didn’t he?
He may well have, lol.
Hopefully the joker is out.
Still awake for this.
In all seriousness, even if he loses his seat he’ll get elected in another riding. They’ll push a con to resign in a safe riding and PP will run there. It could happen quickly too. The question is whether the party is going to kick him out or not.
I’m literally too excited to sleep haha! We’re gonna have a productive government that will catch up to the most advanced countries in the world. We will keep and expand upon dentalcare and pharmacare.
I hope so 🙏 Good work and goodnight!
Sleep well friend! Let us dream for the future!
“He’s earned his right to stay as leader.”
Dude it’s not even guaranteed that he’s keeping his seat.Justin Trudeau glances at Pierre Poilievre and asks “First time?”
Singh resigns as party leader.
I appreciate Jason Kenney calling out maga North and The People’s Party.
Though I’m pretty sure that MAGA north pivoted to the CPC the same way the NDP broke for the Liberals.
PP’s riding update as of approximately midnight EST:
Image Source: Globalnews
Alternative: National Post > Just the subframe for Carleton
This might be the most interesting thing so far, actually, with the orange-blue swing votes in second place.
Poilievre could leave this as a freshly minted lobbyist: His first normal job.
Hopefully it’s in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps…was that out loud
Iirc he’s got a 5 yr wait before he can register as a lobbyist.
That would make sense. Hmm. A desk job at Harper & Associates I guess, then.
Update about 00:35 EST
110/266polls reporting28,327votes reporting
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 14,52951.3%Pierre Poilievre* CON 12,81745.2%(source Globalnews)
Update about 01:05 EST
- 180/266 polls reporting
- 43,999 votes reporting
PP pulls up 0.5%
Name Party votes Share Bruce Fanjoy LIB 24,248Pierre Poilievre* CON 21,68845.6%Beth Prokaska NDP 7091.5%(source Globalnews)
Comment: Thy have counted 6709 votes in the past 30 minutes or so. This is the riding with 1 meter long ballots. What the fuck.
NDP needs to drop Singh. Conservatives need to drop PP.
Singh just announced he is stepping down as party leader.
I dont believe the hype. I think he’d have been great.
I don’t dislike Singh but I don’t think he was a good leader.
I don’t think he saw his own failures coming, but I’ve been saying for a while this would happen.
I don’t think he did a good enough job getting the message out to the working class, and that needs to be the NDP foundation. Unless it’s a worker party, what actually separates it from the greens?
I actually do like most of their platform, and the platform is bold. I Also like that he did push for dental and pharma, but as released those programs are a huge frustration to me.
I think he performed well in the debates. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NDP has trouble filling his shoes. Though they may be able to by picking someone who is more ‘demographically palatable’ to the average Canadian.
Seeing as they voth lost there seat pretty sure that choice has been made for them
Yup. Here’s hoping the selection process goes slow so the Cons can’t cause trouble for a bit.
I don’t think he’ll want to continue after this tbh
Just stepped down.
It sucks but it’s the right move. The London Fanshawe riding is devastating. We were an NDP stronghold for almost 20 years
Lmao PP’s on his way to lose his own riding
Imagine if he came in 91st. It’d be a heritage moment up there with balcony guy
Hahahaha that’d be incredible
Watching the CBC feed on YouTube. It says only 10 of 266 polls reported, but Fanjoy (what an apt name) is ahead by over 50%. That’s pretty incredible.
Also wtf? 91 candidates? In a country with FPTP‽
It’s a joke/protest setup by the Longest Ballot Committee ironically in opposition to FPTP and definitely isn’t the norm haha
Oh that’s brilliant! I love it!
Go Bruce Fanjoy! Stop that demagogue!
the article I read about him said that he left his job to raise his children fulltime while his wife worked. then goes on to say his children are well into their post-secodary degrees so he’s been renovating his house and talking everyone’s ear off about how great it is because of its greenness. One of the things he’d like to do as MP is help other people renovate their houses the same way he did.
Losing to Carney, a serious member of the financial class is one thing. But losing to full time parent of 2 adults, who loves eco-friendly home renos is another thing. It’s interesting that neither men has held a conventional job in 20 years. Not to mention the dynamics (esp gender) of one of them having spent the time being a homemaker and the other being a brainwrecker.
Demagogue in a Milhouse suit who let the internet bully him out of wearing glasses. Pathetic.
I may as well get to bed, but I wish I would know before if the NDP will have enough seats to prop up an LPC minority. I’d hate to see the LPC+NDP be one or two seats short, leaving the CPC/BQ with enough votes to stymie everything. Right now it’s sitting at 170 combined, need 172 or more to make it work.
Why the assumption that BQ can’t be worked with?
LPC+NDP could be 171 and be ok on current numbers, with the 1 GRN projected reaching a majority without needing BQ. Still…they’re 1 short of that.
We’ve still got those advance polls keeping things in flux, though. A Liberal majority hasn’t even been ruled out.
Have there been estimates of how many advance polls there have been, as a percentage of estimated overall turnout?
I’m going to bed pretty quick, but CBC just said that it’s about a 2,000 voter jump for the left when that advanced poll comes in, based on the ridings that are done. So, about 1.6% in a 125,000 person riding, or actually more because voting isn’t mandatory.
As a percentage of turnout, not off the top of my head. It was 7.2 million advance voters in a nation of 41.7 million, though. So, a lot.
1 short may as well be 2 short, because the house will elect a liberal speaker and reduce the vote number one more. But, whatever will happen is set in stone, waiting to be counted. I don’t know why I engage with this as if its a story unfolding, like I can influence it by watching.
because the house will elect a liberal speaker and reduce the vote number one more
Oh, is that not built-in to the 172 requirement? In Australia we always talk about a requirement of 76 seats to win an election, because 75 after the speaker is selected is able to have control of Parliament. I assumed the CBC and others were doing the same here.
edit: actually, just ran the numbers. 343 seats total, minus one for speaker, halved is 171. Assuming Canadian speakers follow Speaker Denison’s Rule, exactly half isn’t enough, so you need 172. So it looks like it is built in.
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
His concession had a lot of poise and savvy. He’ll never win me over but I was impressed with his cooperative tone. But I know he hasn’t changed, and I know it is not in his nature to cooperate.
