Canadian Federal Election - Page 113

dreambrother808 · #**2241** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Drybrain

I think it's past time to put Trudeau out to pasture but Trudeau derangement is real. People have to calm down.

Yes, it begins to come across as hysterical at a certain point. Some people truly believe everything the Russian bots are telling them online.

casper · #**2242** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

The Green Party just needs to go away at this point. They have completely lost the plot. They stand for nothing.

While I am partial to the Liberals. I live in a ridding where the race each election is between the NDP and the Greens.

For Vancouver Island, the Liberals are not green enough. Perhaps with Carney as leader that will change. The Conservatives are viewed as the political incarnation of the oil and coal industry out here. Obviously, they are not popular.

Gresto · #**2243** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 8:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Marshsparrow

This can be one-upped by the Conservatives promising to establish a "barbaric cultural practices" hotline - that was an epic move on their part to get people ratting on their neighbours and families akin to Nazi Germany.

Ah yes, the "lovely and talented" Kellie Leitch, who, appropriately, moved to Mississippi after the Harper gov. was jettisoned. I thought there was a kernel of worthiness to the idea (viz, let's try to keep extremists of all ilks out of Canada), but it was promulgated by the wrong person and party. In other words, it was nakedly an attack on Muslims.

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Originally Posted by casper

I live in a riding where the race each election is between the NDP and the Greens.

You're lucky. My unaspiring, middle-of-the-road riding alternates federally and provincially between the Cons and the Libs. No NDP or Green has the slightest chance here.

EnvisionSaintJohn · #**2244** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 11:11 PM**

Just like it did with Donald Trump, it really hits different once it’s “Wikipedia Official”

Acajack · #**2245** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Gresto

Ah yes, the "lovely and talented" Kellie Leitch, who, appropriately, moved to Mississippi after the Harper gov. was jettisoned. I thought there was a kernel of worthiness to the idea (viz, let's try to keep extremists of all ilks out of Canada), but it was promulgated by the wrong person and party. In other words, it was nakedly an attack on Muslims.

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Even so, IIRC it wouldn't have kept extremists out of Canada. We would have continued to let them in, but made their lives slightly more complicated once here.

kiwi4353 · #**2246** Posted **Mar 9, 2025, 11:53 PM**

So we can we expect an election to be called?

CanSpice · #**2247** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 12:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by kiwi4353

So we can we expect an election to be called?

So Justin Trudeau needs to visit the Governor General and officially resign, and Mark Carney needs to be officially named by the Governor General as PM, so maybe there'll be a "y'know, while I'm here... do you want to dissolve Parliament?"

Marshsparrow · #**2248** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 12:06 AM**

Suspect they are trying to figure out the fastest way to get that election called... you also have many Conservatives posting about "unelected PM, coronation, undemocratic, Liberal Party picks PM" etc. do they not understand how the system works? Or they think most Canadians are stupid?

SpongeG · #**2249** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 12:24 AM**

they are people mad that PP did not win the election today lol.

MolsonExport · #**2250** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 12:35 AM**

Apple munching intensifies

Djeffery · #**2251** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 12:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

they are people mad that PP did not win the election today lol.

No doubt, Trump is probably one of them lol

casper · #**2252** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Djeffery

No doubt, Trump is probably one of them lol

I wonder if someone has explained the parliamentary system to him yet.

samne · #**2253** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 2:24 AM**

100k online votes selected the next PM for an entire country. We need an election now.

LuluBobo · #**2254** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 2:45 AM**

Sounds like we will get an election called this week. Likely to occur after Easter but before May long weekend.

I think we end up with a weak Liberal minority. Bloc and NDP do poorly.

casper · #**2255** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 2:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by samne

100k online votes selected the next PM for an entire country. We need an election now.

Not quite. If an election is not called before then, the new government will be tested with a confidence vote and 338 MP will decide.

That is how the system works.

samne · #**2256** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 3:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by casper

Not quote. If an election is not called before then, the new government will be tests with a confidence vote and 338 MP will decide.

That is how the system works.

Fact still remains that if Carney is sworn in as PM, it is by way of 100k online clicks and not by a general election.

Sure it is the system, but they are taking advantage of a very big flaw in the system considering the Liberals also prorogued parliament for no valid reason to achieve this.

But whatever, we are here and lets have an election now so Canadians can democratically choose their PM. Unless the Libs are afraid...

CanSpice · #**2257** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 3:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by samne

100k online votes selected the next PM for an entire country. We need an election now.

This'll blow your mind: in 2021 only 22,848 people voted for Justin Trudeau and he became Prime Minister!

Hackslack · #**2258** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 4:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by CanSpice

This'll blow your mind: in 2021 only 22,848 people voted for Justin Trudeau and he became Prime Minister!

Even more mind blowing was 190,781 more Canadians wanted O’toole to be PM than Trudeau.

casper · #**2259** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 4:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by samne

Fact still remains that if Carney is sworn in as PM, it is by way of 100k online clicks and not by a general election.

Sure it is the system, but they are taking advantage of a very big flaw in the system considering the Liberals also prorogued parliament for no valid reason to achieve this.

But whatever, we are here and lets have an election now so Canadians can democratically choose their PM. Unless the Libs are afraid...

Lets see where we are Monday/Tuesday. A pause in the tariff nonsense from the US would be helpful.

The Liberals have announced some measures to provide relief and support during the tariff war. It can probably all be done through order in council. We will see if anything needs parliament to come back for a day or two.

Architype · #**2260** Posted **Mar 10, 2025, 4:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by samne

100k online votes selected the next PM for an entire country. We need an election now.

You are thinking about this incorrectly. It's the proportion of voters, not the quantity of voters who vote for the leader, that counts. How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Now, just think of the Liberal leadership as a light bulb. I imagine it would require a lot more conservatives to do that though.