# Canada Election 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 6, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798 "2019-09-06T16:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/401 "2019-10-21T21:58:34Z")
No problem. I understand. It’s a tough time for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/402 "2019-10-21T22:02:59Z")
I’m impressed how you’ve managed to wrap yourself in indignation and yet apparently feel no need to retract your statement. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/403 "2019-10-21T22:06:50Z")
Graciously accepting an apology is ‘wrapping myself in indignation’? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/404 "2019-10-21T22:17:46Z")
Yes. Obviously. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/405 "2019-10-21T23:19:09Z")
Calm down and cut out the personal sniping. RickJay Moderator ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/406 "2019-10-21T23:23:45Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > As I recall, the election blackout law was put into place because there was serious evidence that releasing vote results before polls are closed in the West will suppress voters - mostly conservative voters - since the votes coming out of the east always favor the liberals. So we could be in a situation again where voters in Alberta and BC will get off work, turn on their car radios, and find out the liberals have a huge lead snd simply say, ‘screw voting then - I’m going home’. Worst case, a winner will be declared before the polls close in the west. > > So It’s not surprising that the Trudeau gov’t would get rid of it - anything to help win, I guess. This would only matter if you could demonstrate 1. That turnout out West actually goes down by a significant amount (presumably, all of it in the last hour or three of voting) if poll reports come out of the East, and 2. That not only did turnout go down, but it specifically goes down only with Conservative voters. Point 1 is unsupported by evidence. Point 2 is unsupported by either evidence or common sense. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/407 "2019-10-22T00:04:22Z")
But fundamentally, the accusation is baseless since the blackout removal took place while Stephen Harper was PM. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/408 "2019-10-22T00:05:33Z")
My recollection of the change to allow reporting was that it was more just recognition of the fact that in days of online everything it was pointless to try to prevent the broadcast of results in parts of the country. That is of course becoming ever more true. How exactly would you prevent a BCer from finding out early results from Nova Scotia online? Also, it’s patronizing as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/409 "2019-10-22T00:14:35Z")
I just got back from voting. Good turnout at the poll. Hereabouts, polls will be open for another hour and twenty minutes, but I’m watching the election returns from the Atlantic Provinces on CTV News. I think **Gorsnak** nailed it–in the days of “online everything,” a blackout wouldn’t do any good. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/410 "2019-10-22T01:22:12Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I just got back from voting. Good turnout at the poll. > > Hereabouts, polls will be open for another hour and twenty minutes, but I’m watching the election returns from the Atlantic Provinces on CTV News. I think **Gorsnak** nailed it–in the days of “online everything,” a blackout wouldn’t do any good. Yeah, that kinda reminds me of the old days where they wouldn’t report Olympic results if they were being held in a time zone far away from North America. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/411 "2019-10-22T01:28:08Z")
Looks like the Liberals are doing well in the Atlantic. No surprise, given they swept in 2015. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/412 "2019-10-22T01:31:28Z")
While I was driving home I saw the Scheer bus drive by, presumably to their local HQ. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/413 "2019-10-22T01:48:09Z")
Liberals were bound to drop by some in the Atlantic provinces. It looks like an NDP and Bloc shift in Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/414 "2019-10-22T01:49:25Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > While I was driving home I saw the Scheer bus drive by, presumably to their local HQ. Did you see if there was anyone underneath it? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/415 "2019-10-22T01:59:57Z")
Some years ago I was so enthusiastic that I voted in the advance poll. But tonight I was sitting around in my bathrobe with a glass of rum and pretty much resigned to not voting because this riding is so solidly conservative that it wouldn’t make a difference. But I’ve always voted before, everywhere I’ve lived, and the guilt kept nagging me until I finally got dressed and went down to the school where the polling stations were set up. I was glad I did. The experience is always so friendly and collegial. There were actually short lines for some of the voting areas (not sure how they’re subdivided) but my voting booth had no one else there, so it was in and out with lots of thank-yous and good-nights. Glad I did my civic duty. The guilt would have nagged me until the next election! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/416 "2019-10-22T02:09:54Z")
It took me three minutes to arrive, vote and leave. Three people greeted me “Hello/Bonjour”, which I always like; but don’t hear very often in these anglophone parts. The preliminaries, which do not fully reflect Conservative Western Canada, imply the NDP has had a tough night, which plays into Liberal hands. People seem to like Singh more than his party? Might even be a scant majority. ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/417 "2019-10-22T02:12:56Z")
Liberals win government. I feel relief from this result. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/418 "2019-10-22T02:17:07Z")
It was friendly and simple as usual to vote here. Always good to see and talk to other voters at the polling stations. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/419 "2019-10-22T02:18:47Z")
Liberals didn’t get hurt much in Maritimes and Quebec, and are doing very well in Ontario. Looks like a Liberal minority unless they can sweep BC and get pickups elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798/420 "2019-10-22T02:22:19Z")
Well, CBC called the election for the Liberals before the polls closed in BC. Looking like a liberal minority. It seems to me that they might have to form a coalition with the Bloc, unless they get close enough to a majority that the NDP can do it for them. That ought to be exciting out west. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-election-2019/839798.md?page=22)