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CTV News also made the same call.

Majority or minority gov tbd


Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney take in the results in Ottawa. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

You've put a tourniquet on the wound. You won't bleed to death. Now you have to face the grim work of amputating the infected limb.

Use this time to marginalize conservative influence in any way you can. Obstruct every single thing they attempt to do. Keep attacking and never stop. Drive them into the margins of society where they belong. Do not give them a single inch (or centimeter, if you will.)

What is happening in the US should serve as a cautionary tale of what happens when the disease that is conservative culture goes unchecked. You have the advantage. Go on the attack and don't stop until they stay down.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

way to go canada!

australia’s turn next in less than a week and our polls look roughly the same… cross your fingers for us!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

🤞 Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

You bogans got this after canada paved the way the way

Good luck you cunts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

If the Liberal party wins, here come the nonstop claims of election fraud from all the goddamn radical fascist talk show hosts (who should all be hunted down and exterminated like the rabid feral pigs that they are)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much conservative support here for my comfort. For a party to drop a platform as shit as theirs and have governing documents as horribly written and contradicting as theirs to STILL GET ALMOST HALF the votes? What. The. Fuck.

Merci beaucoups de Quebec for saving us all from what could have been a real bad 4 years, but let's not get comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly, as a souverainiste, I'm low-key scared for y'all in the ROC. Unless something major happens, I'll vote yes in a referendum.

I'm sick of seeing the Overton window shifted to the right and feeling like my province has to struggle to avoid full throttle fascism. I want out.

What will the ROC do if Quebec's not here anymore? I hope my worries are unfounded and I'm just being an arrogant prick by thinking this way.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone listen to PP's speech? How is bro still saying he'll stay on as leader after pulling an Atlanta Falcons

Also, this election proved to me that the Quebec hate is so forced. Push comes to shove they know what elbows up means, unlike Alberta and Sask.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

We'll vote BQ in safe elections because minority governments that have to form coalitions is a good counterbalance to FPTP. But in contentious ones, we'll go for the more logical votes. My riding was BQ for the last 2 elections but it was a close race between the libs and cpp

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

1am (EST) and 1 of the 3 major party leaders has lost his seat (Singh). Bruce Fanjoy (LIB) has a 2500 vote lead over Poilievre in Carleton with 68% of the votes counted, so it's looking fairly likely he'll lose too.

I wonder if there has ever been an election where this many parties have changed leaders in such a short span of time. First Trudeau stepping down, then the NDP and Cons both having their leaders lose their seats. The only party leaders who survived the election and kept their seats are Elizabeth May and Yves-François Blanchet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

We needed this badly. It was clear that a few months ago we had no leader that Canadians were happy with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bruce Fanjoy is just a likeable guy too. The best kind to upset starchy pants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

With a name like that he'd have to be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting situation right now at about midnight. 172 needed for a majority, projections say they'll be about 10 short. NDP is projected to get about 10 seats, which might not be enough to bring a Liberal/NDP coalition up to 172. Greens are down to 1 seat, leaving only Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois.

What happens if the Liberals and Conservatives (and Green) can't form a coalition to hit 172. Would the Liberals actually make a coalition with the Bloc Quebecois? What could they agree on? What would the Bloc demand?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A coalition is not the same as a minority government, there has only ever been 2 canadian coalitions. It's pretty unlikely that will happen.

I think a minority supported by BQ will be good for the environment, significant tightening on immigration, probably liberal agenda otherwise. the BQ is much more closely aligned with Libs than CPC, as I think Blanchet made clear in the english debate. A LIB+NDP+Green isn't totally out of the question right now, probably also good for the environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The NDP is set to lose official party status. Do you think any of them will cross the floor to the Libs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I just hope that this time the small parties can push to get rid of FPTP. This election would have looked so different with any other form of voting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What's funny is that the way things are going the Bloc might be the only party willing to work with the Liberals AND that will have enough seats to hold the balance of power. I wonder if we might see the CPC split in two so the progressives can work with the Liberals...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

That would be welcome. After they rejected O'Toole and went for Poilievre it looked like we had lost the rational right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Bet that's what Houston is up to with his pal Dougie. Timmy boy is well known for saying his party is not the same as the federal conservatives. Hint though: they are, just more subtle about it mostly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Awesome!

Still troubling to know how many of my countrymen are conservative filth though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Congrats, Canada! Don't ever let this brain disease that has destroyed our country overtake you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

We still have a lot of work to do. We aren't blameless nor are our political parties. All of them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Been interesting to watch the seats swinging, it's going to definitely be close all night.

I'm curious how Polievre will do in his own riding, he is against a liberal Bruce Fanjoy who has actually done pretty well for himself and the early voting was counted first in that riding which had Bruce up a few votes so it'll be a matter of time to see how it actually goes since the early vote was said to be largely Liberal supporters.

Edit: oh my god he did it, he lost his seat to Bruce.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if, at 45 he has to make a resume and try to find a job for the first time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Unless the knives come out for him as leader, a newly elected MP in a nice, safe western riding will likely step down and trigger a by-election for PP to carpetbag his way in. It still isn't official yet, but is still looking very much like a bunch of federal public servants in his riding didn't trust him not to sack them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

We're gonna lose our little PP in Ottawa.

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