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Is the guy in the blue suit reading a book behind that sign or something?
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?
“That’s not an applause line.” lol
The comment about Fanjoy potentially winning! Oooh roasted!
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.
“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?”
PP lost his seat, didn’t he?
He may well have, lol.
Hopefully the joker is out.
Still awake for this.
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!
What a terrible song.
What, you don’t like country-gospel with awkwardly rammed in mood board words?
“We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.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.
That was awesome.
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.
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.
Singh resigns as party leader.
PP’s riding update as of approximately midnight EST:
Image Source: Globalnews
Alternative: National Post > Just the subframe for Carleton
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)
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.
Hopefully it’s in the American regime and we never see him again. Opps…was that out loud
11:50 p.m. EDT: Elections Canada confirms website issues not security-related
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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.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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?
