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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suffered a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat, his party reduced to a single-digit seat count.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Thanks for finally doing the right thing, Jagmeet! It only took your complete and utter defeat and losing official party status... but I guess it's better late than never. (Please elect a socialist leader now.)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (7 children)

first past the post will kill you as easily as it killed Estats Unis

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

On Jan 1st, the 3 major canada-wide parties were:

  • Liberal, headed by Justin Trudeau out of Papineau
  • Conservative headed by Pierre Poilievre out of Carleton
  • NDP headed by Jagmeet Singh out of Burnaby South

On May 1st the 3 major parties will be:

  • Liberal, headed by Mark Carney out of Nepean
  • Conservative headed by Pierre Poilievre(?) out of ?
  • NDP headed by ? out of ?
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Liberal, Conservative, Bloc, other.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

That's why I carefully worded it "canada-wide parties". If it were just big parties by vote, you'd definitely be right. In fact, Bloc is the only big party that came through the last few months with their leader intact.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NDP aren't even a major party anymore with 7 seats, sadly

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They're not an "official party", but they still got 6% of the vote. But, because of FPTP they only got 2% of the seats. Bloc Quebecois got 6.4% of the vote and 6.7% of the seats. There are still a lot of people out there who would want to vote NDP, but who voted Liberal to achieve "anybody but Conservative". The plan worked, but I think they'd like some electoral reform.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4jd39g8y1o

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pierre Poilievre likely to stay as party leader since he's very popular with the base. Unless someone like Doug Ford decides to fight him for the position.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pierre is very not popular - when Trudeau quit he had a higher approval rating than Pierre. People this time were voting for the party, not for Pierre.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He's not popular overall, but he's very popular with the conversative base.

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

The election results (and polling on leader specifically) do not back that claim up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm talking about apples you are talking about oranges. Look at polling for conversative support for Pierre Poilievre or party leader elections where he got 68.15%.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, wasn't aware.

I usually post CBC, but they break metadata embedding on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here friend! Some of the Non Canadian owned new outlets and the Canadian owned when reading getting your information.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where do Globe & Mail and Toronto Star sit?

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

Globe & Mail and Toronto Star are currently, Canadian owned, but can be acquired (by foreign interest).

P.s. none of the Canadian owned news outlets in the infographic can be acquired.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What makes those two different from the rest? Why can they be acquired?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Not surprised he is stepping down. A very tough night.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

While I agree that change is necessary, I feel like NDP as a whole needs to change strategy. It's like every single promise they make is about throwing shade on another party, or saying they will fix something liberals did, but rarely any actual constructive or original ideas. They need to come up with their own identity instead of basing it on the opposite of another.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I feel sad for the guy because he really did care and worked hard. He was a good dude.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He had his time and he did delivered some good things, but it's defintely time for new ideas and more charismatic leaders. He was the most unpopular leader in this election cycle.

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