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get that as well-known as you can, people..
it's IMPORTANT, now..
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Mark Carney will run for election in the Ottawa riding of Nepean
I don't understand this sentence
They amalgamated Nepean into Ottawa, some years ago: they're not separate cities, I don't think, anymore..
helps?
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In a general election, you vote for your local representative to represent you in parliament.
Ridings are what Canada call their electoral districts. An area in which a member of parliament stands for election.
Nepean is a location in Ottawa. Mark is running for election there.
Like a single representative? Is it like a small district?
MPs are the (single) representatives of Canada's Electoral Districts - generally members of parliament all have seats they win through the general (or interim) elections representing fixed regions. Whichever party wins a majority of seats makes up the government, and when a minority is formed generally some form of coalition is formed.
The party nominates a leader for their party - it is not mandatory for the leader to have a seat (even as PM), but you can imagine the media frenzy if that were the case. We don't pick the leader (unless you're a registered Lib/Con/etc), although it certainly has a major impact on Canadian politics in our FPTP system (as most people don't even really know who their MPs are, as they're generally voting for the party itself and inferring their candidate will act in accordance).
So they're really just saying which seat Carney will be participating in for the general election, usually a safe riding.
Yeah what I meant is: we have a similar system but it's on a national level (like many other places), so the proportion of votes results in the number of MPs for each list that was voted, with a minimum threshold for winning any seat at all.
Instead in your case, every district elects a single MP, then? Meaning your representation is not proportional to the population but to the majorities of each single district?
All the best to Mark Carney.
Knowing nothing about the way Canadian elections are run, "Nepean riding" sounds like the third novel in a decalogy about teenagers isekai'd to a Narnia-like type of Universe.
Remember when Trump said that Trudeau was going to use the tariff crisis to cling to power and not have an election this year... Long after Trudeau had already announced that he was going to step down as soon as a replacement is chosen?
That was not even a month ago.
Donold has mushbrains.
These 3 months have been the longest three years of my life
It's a full time job keeping track of all of Trump's lies.
And not one that is good for the 'ol mental health.
https://lemmy.world/post/27271077
All you need to know about PeePee:
Straight from one of his traitors mouths.
I really don't know how this hasn't been screamed loud and clear across the country. A vote for pp is a vote for Trump.
It's kinda hilarious the 180 he's been forced to do, and despite already appearing disingenuous before, he's now such a joke that I'm surprised he shows his face. Doug Ford had a far better chance of success than he does.
Fucking hell.
So this means that the Edmonton center riding is open. Edmonton's mayor is also going to run for a seat, probably SE Edmonton, as that's where he's held city counsel posts before being the mayor.
The conservatives had a gazillion point lead 2 years before an election being called!
Where's the smug redneck bigoted fuck trudeau' maplemaga crowd now?
They're currently trying to paint Carney as a pedophile because he met Ghislaine Maxwell at a social event one time.
And yet Trump was Ep's bestie.
His most frequent flyer