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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.
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.
Hopefully it’s in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps…was that out loud
Hopefully we’ve passed an inflection point now, and we’re not doomed to keep following their trajectory.
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.
Update about 10:40 est
264/266 polls reporting
83,756 votes reporting
Bruce Fanjoy LIB 42,374 50.6%
Pierre Poilievre* CON 38,581 46.1%
Beth Prokaska NDP 1,190 1.4%
Same source as previous
Comment: that’s about 80% voter turnout
https://globalnews.ca/news/11153487/canada-election-pierre-poilievre-carleton-riding-results/
Carleton covers suburban parts of Ottawa, which is home to many workers in the federal public service that Poilievre vowed on the campaign trail to cut.
When my special ballot hadn’t shown up the local election office said that there is still a process to vote in person, you have to sign a statement saying you have not voted yet. It showed up the next day but according to them there is a process but they don’t mention it unless it’s really needed. It was last Thursday so I was a bit worried I wouldn’t be able to vote at all.
This liberal guy on CBC is super fucking annoying. He doesn’t need to be campaigning on the results show. JFC
Yeah the blatant campaigning is unnecessary and leaves a bad taste in my mouth
Please don’t put your phone in your mouth, even during election night.
Yeah way too eager, super annoying. The woman beside him is visibly annoyed with him it’s pretty entertaining
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May I ask on what type of electronic device and what location you chose to write your comment?
My daughter is 20 and in her second year of university. She came home to vote in the provincial election and she just voted in the federal election. If you raise your kids right and teach them how important voting is they will vote. She’s very politically engaged.
The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.
If you don’t know who to vote for, I recommend using vote compass to see how closely you align to the parties.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
There’s a “weight your results” button that let’s you indicate how much you care about each question.
I’m usually disappointed by the vote compass. Lately it has been putting me between the Liberals and Cons because I am ambivalent about social issues and left leaning on economic issues. If you think it is non of the government’s business which race/gender you are, that is putting you on the right these days.
They’ve introduced a feature at the end where you can choose to weight your answers, so the social issues you don’t really care about can be weighted
0and get a more accurate result.Ain’t got time for that. I did a few questions and it did change the result dramatically.
I got the same result for the same reason.
I think the parties not releasing their platform until so late makes it incorrect.
It’s a good idea, but not good this election.
Isn’t the right trying to tell people what race and genders are valid…
Yes. I feel like polls such as Vote Compass are hampered by the fact that they take right wing policies at face value rather than what they actually do once in power.
Very much agreed
This is not looking good so far. 🥲
It looks fine
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It’s close, but remember the Conservatives would probably have to win an absolute majority, because nobody else wants to work with them.
If the east coast is representative, they get the most seats but fall short of that.
The NDP had 9 years to press the promise of PR and did nothing. Fuck em. I hope they lose party status.
PR is a non-starter for the liberals, their party would completely disappear if they passed it. That’s why they sabotaged/killed it even though they promised last time.
The NDP couldn’t push it through even if they wanted, all it would have done is forced an election into the Conservatives.
I’m not sold on PP/PR, and I understand RCV to help liberals more, but I disagree that LPC would do poorly under PP.
The Liberals only benefit from various PR type options if we assume that new parties wouldn’t form and only the existing parties are competing.
That wouldn’t be the case.
Doesn’t matter in the end though. I think Liberals have a large enough conservative (status quo) voterbase among WASPy city population that they would always be an at least German SDP level party, forming coalition governments left and right.
And if not, well, they’ve been the “default party of Canada” for long enough.
This. PR is a death knell for the bigger parties and they’ll fight it. Maybe. Mayyyybe that can be pushed for RCV. But I think Mr Singh didn’t have the poker hand for that and needed to play for dental framework instead. Continuing on that would have been great, but he overplayed his hand as it was and set Justin on the election course.
This time, if Mark wins the big bag and runs majority, we’ll see lots of minor improvements but nothing glamorous: his people will keep any big gains in the war chest and/or spent immediately on an independent euro-connected peacekeeper force.
We’re gonna see real estate shenanigans, though, same as cons, with bungalow boondoggles and sprawl for quick cheap housing to satisfy the numbers, and it’ll be a long time before we can claw ourselves farther away from the same Muni economic brink that Detroit fell over with its unsustainable bungalow sprawl. But keep in mind almost no one has a good plan to get good, dense, walkable mixed-use tower housing linked to trains because that’s a project with excellent returns at a pace too slow for the protestors. If Mark does anything foundational for that it’ll be noise amid the effort to placate the short-thinkers and stay in power for a better term next time.
We’re gonna see a lot of younger voters looking for the whizbang change the cons offer, not understanding the whole story, the motivations, and the history of every other time we got onboard there. Harper.
But if we can get steady gains, if we can improve ancillary healthcare coverage like the last term, if we can start the ground work for RCV which is more appealing to the incumbent giants, then we could see that in 5 years as a hard promise.
In those 5 years we need to teach kids what “the whole truth” looked like under Mr Harper and see whether they like the side of the box with the nutrient value - mmm, riboflavin - as much as the front of the box with the splashy graphics the offer of the free prize inside.
It was a mistake (in obvious retrospect) to not settle for RCV. Singh made his weekend speech, “vote strategically to not split for CPC win”, which never has to be said under RCV. You can instead double down on why you should be first or 2nd choice, and voter only needs to agree to help you/party. You don’t get strategic voting instructions from mainstream media. You have to rely on actively searched for leaked polling data that may or may not be true.
That’s what I meant in long form. If they would have held the Libs to account, they could have got it. Instead they backed themselves into a corner and us into a two-party system. Fuck them in the 🐐 🍑 but this is what they get for not being the NDP Canadians needed.
Did they accomplish something? Sure, but not what we most need to avoid the pitfalls of a two-party ticket in the future. And the future is here.
The comment about Fanjoy potentially winning! Oooh roasted!
Well, let’s find out if we delay fascism for 4 years or not.
We best start fighting back regardless of how it turns out.
Oh yeah, to be clear if the libs win delay is absolutely the key word here. They won’t do shit to fight fascism so it’s up to the few that give a fuck to do it.
It’s up to us to demand that they fight it
Hahahahahahahaha.
Like actually though. Make them listen. Organize and withhold labour until we get PR and advances made against online hate speech.
I suspect a lot of pivotal things will happen in the next 4 years. The fascists are at the point where they actually have to put things into practice, and that’s what brought them down the last time around. This election is just the first example.
So, maybe it’s not just a delay? Fingers crossed.
If it’s a minority government, the conservatives are going to be the opposition and they’re going to block everything.
They might still have to make a coalition with the NDP but most importantly, the Bloc québécois.
I really expect the NDP will be up for it. The Bloc might be dicier. ATM they still haven’t called a minority so I have a feeling the NDP will suffice.
Hoping for some kind of Conservative participation is a pipe dream, though, you’re right about that. I haven’t even heard it discussed.
They’ve adopted the republicans’ scummy ways since Harper. And it intensified during this election. We had social media influence to thank as well.
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.
I would honestly love to see Wab Kinew take a run at the federal leadership.
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Regardless of how he may have turned his life around, I don’t think Canada is ready for a federal leader with a previous criminal record.
Yeah, THAT’S the thing standing between them… [At this time Jerkface began rolling their eyes, and had not yet stopped by the time the comment needed to be submitted.]
I genuinely think that would be far more of a problem than him being indigenous, if that’s what you’re implying. If he were running for the CPC then yeah of course racism would be a much bigger issue.
I always liked Singh as a person, but I feel like NDP needs some change. They are a party focused on throwing shade on other parties. They need their own identity.
Implying that the NDP wasn’t elected due to their leader being a visible minority is either disingenuous or very misinformed. There are of course bigots in Canada, but most Canadians aren’t bigots.
Meh, I wouldn’t brush aside this so easily. You don’t have to be a full blown bigot to be affected by bias. Most people have unconscious bias that tilt their opinion one way or another. A white woman would face extra barriers… so you can safely bet a guy from the ethnicity that has some people literally saying that we have “allowed in too much of” will face a hasher hill to climb. Though I also agree that this isn’t the main reason the NDP didn’t go well, it’s probably a minor contributing factor.
How many times have I heard a phrase containing “these brown people” out loud in the last year? Not many. But not zero. And if I could also hear peoples subconscious thoughts, it would probably have been way more than we’d like to admit.
As a visible minority … I’m Indigenous Canadian … most of Canada is still bigoted. It’s not as bad as it was 50 years ago or even 20 years ago but it is still very bigoted and racist towards any visible minorities. The difference in our modern world is that the discrimination is more subtle, hidden and discrete … it’s an attitude that is literally baked in the system and fabric of society. I don’t get treated negatively or with racism in my life but from time to time, those attitudes do appear and I am always aware of them.
I’m in northern Ontario and as much as there are a lot of NDP lovers up here, the majority of them still hold Native people in contempt and with negative attitudes … we’re always seen as either incapable of helping ourselves and worthless, while also being seen as people living with free-for-all social welfare. People want to be us but also despise or ridicule actual full blooded Native people living on their lands. They simultaneously see us as powerless while at the same time having too much control or influence over resource development. We either have no money or not allowed to make money for ourselves. Government still has a very hard time balancing between managing our complaints and allowing us enough control to not disturb their corporate friends … which when you think about it has always been the role of government in Native affairs.
The cities might not show their bigots and intolerance so easily … but in the rural, northern and remote areas, it still very much the same as it was decades ago.
I’m in Southern Ontario and I’m definitely not a minority.
I see the racist rhetoric regularly. People see me, a straight white male, and more than a few times, mistake me for a like-minded individual, and they let their racism spew out like bile.
Makes me sick.
It also makes me sick to think that Canadians could be so cruel to the indigenous peoples. I don’t think any amount of time, reparations, or anything else, could make up for what occurred.
We’re Canadians, if you’re not indigenous, then you’re either an immigrant, or the descendant of an immigrant. We’re all here, equal in the eyes of the law (not law enforcement/police, the letter of the law), and there’s no good excuse to act otherwise. United we stand, divided we fall. One country in particular, wants us to be divided. Don’t let them win.
Vive le Canada!
I think most of these attitudes stem from group mentality … and the powers that be love to spread hate and fear because its so easy to sell and manipulate people with.
When I meet most people … any people of any race, colour or creed … people are very decent human beings. I’ve even travelled to Asia, Europe, Caribbean and parts of northern Africa and in every instance, all I met were good decent human beings.
But get them in any group and poison that group with hatred of any kind and the whole mass just moves like an angry mob. It takes courage for any one person in a group to call everyone else out and its far easier for everyone else to just fall into line. I’m even guilty of this as well … Indigenous people can fall into those hateful racist attitudes as easily as any other person.
But when I hear comments like yours … it gives me hope that the world can change and is on its way to changing to better attitudes and perspectives. Stay well my friend.
I will say, from my own limited experience, instances of racist/bigoted comments have diminished over time.
I’ll be clear, it still happens. But it’s less than it was.
I’m continually hopeful that racism will be eliminated in future generations, and it is my wish that it happens soon.
I’ll also be clear: I don’t keep company with that kind of person. Anyone who can judge another based on their country of origin, the color of their skin, or their creed/motto/whatever alone, isn’t worth my time, nor effort to associate with, know, or have any kind of relationship with at all, for any reason, for any length of time. Those people are not worth my time nor mental effort to accommodate. They’re not even worth the oxygen they consume.
Right there with you man, it’s hard to imagine that any regular looking white dude in Canada could claim in good faith that they’ve never been in a conversation where they witnessed a bunch of similar looking dudes go hardcore mask-off because they thought the coast was clear.
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.
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I like and respect him as a politician, but is he NDP-leaning? He strikes me as more centre.
He’s literally the NDP premiere of Manitoba…
Lol, I’m a dummy. Thanks for the info. I live in a province that has never had an NDP premier, so my brain didn’t think to check.
Yeah, he’s doing great!
I wonder if the election will be over as soon as the polls close in Ontario.
Kind looks like we’ll need to wait all night based on the initial results coming out of the alantic.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only, so no counting machines to make it go faster.
I mean I get it, but the results will take longer than normal.
Honestly for the best, counting machines are potentially vulnerable to foreign interference.
Not really tho. That’s an American thing. Our elections are managed by an independent Elections Canada, not by individual parties. We protect our right to vote pretty well.
But to avoid any ‘argument’ that the Cons might throw up, Elections Canada decided this would be best.
Anything that runs source code can be hacked. I’m not talking about elections canada or one of the parties influencing the votes. I’m talking about foreign state sponsored cyber warfare undermining our election.
If it’s online. The vote counting machines are not.
You can 100% install hardware back doors. Anyone that says something can’t be hacked has never worked on secure products before. There is always a way in. Being disconnected from a network isn’t always enough.
If it’s online. The vote counting machines are not.
Many times a voting machine in America - not ‘online’ - still was reachable on wifi or bluetooth, and was thus very vulnerable.
For more info, talk to the people who secure America’s election, if you can find them after they were fired.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only
More secure.
Fewer chances for PP to use lies to delay his inevitable loss.
Quebec and Ontario
An often noted oddity of the Canadian population is to draw a horizontal line at Windsor Ontario and a vertical line at Huntsville Ontario … everything south and east of that line is 90% of the Canadian population.
I recall in 2015 that when Atlantic Canada went solid red that was enough to show that the Liberals won entirely and the rest was just waiting the night out.
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.
And now he needs to get his resume ready for the first time ever.
In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”
And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.
It was Buddy Cole.
Crap like him always have some cushy job lined up for them. Like Jason Kenney and Atco.
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I hate his fucking guts to the core, and nothing I’m about to say should be viewed as forgiveness, but he does seem to genuinely be a useful shortsighted idiot with a side of abhramic god bigotry mixed in for good measure. Instead of being in on it as a member of Maple MAGA like I used to think.
He’s been consistent denouncing them…even late into his leadership while still in power he was. It’s why he rage quit after winning 51% leading to Smith…
The predictable to everyone but him outcome of Wildrose eating the “united” Progress Conservatives alive from within, seems to be the true story.
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You sure are, but that doesn’t invalidate your fears.
I hold to plenty of negative views that are deeply unpopular if i bring them up just because they’re negative.
The youth moved to the right. That’s scary. But, those kids are getting a front row seat to how fascist country devolves for the next 4 years.
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.
“We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.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.
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.
Well, sure.
But the point was the timing of the statement. After he said that they prevented a Liberal NDP coalition, the NDP, seconds later, gained a seat, allowing a Liberal NDP coalition of 172 seats, if they chose to do so. If they did a coalition now they would have 175.I get that, and it was hilarious, but there was never going to be a coalition government which was my main point. He was using the wrong language intentionally. Essentially he didn’t even almost prevent it because it was never going to happen.
Not quite true. Coalitions are typically starting with the party with the largest vote count to invite others into coalition talks. If they find willing partners that make up a majority and there are enough commonalities between all the coalition partners they enter into a contract. And each party in the coalition participate in the government with ministers and everything.
Interesting, I guess I’m wrong on this one, I thought it was only with the minority parties (as in not the seat leader), but it’s minority parties that would be pretty much forced to do it to make it work.
We’ve never had a federal coalition government, only that almost one when Harper prorogued parliament to avoid it.
edit: I do suspect we may have had one if the Conservatives won a small minority though.
And the BQ wouldn’t form a coalition with the current CPC, they would need to get their house in order and move left a lot for that to happen.
There was a point where the BQ could have been the only party keeping the Liberals in power though, the NDP and Greens didn’t have enough seats to help them pass a vote, but I just woke up and we’re back to the same situation as before the election… Would be funny if the Liberals get 171 and the Greens also hold the balance of power.
I wonder what May would ask for if the NDP refused to support the Liberals in that situation on something and she was the deciding vote.
“So what about those 6 billions trees you guys were supposed to plant?”
Elections Canada website down during peak voting time? Yikes.
Elections Canada website down during peak voting time? Yikes.
I respect the people at Elections Canada, but not their funding. I’m glad we do not use voting machines but instead still count votes by hand with people watching like a hawk.
While i agree, i get the ick from Alberta being soooo blue it’s like Canada’s biggest bruise. I often wonder if cons have goons planted 🤷
Most likely a DDoS. 338Canada got DDoSed over the last 24 hours.
Russia playing games again?
We don’t need Russia to DDoS shit. We have plenty technically able cons in Canada that can do it.
