I think our waits are normally about 5 minutes. I was shocked when we walked in and were told a 2 hour wait.
Yep. He’s done what I’ve been telling the CPC to do for almost 20 years now. If this election were being held 30 years ago, does anyone really think Carney would run as anything but an old-school Progressive Conservative?
That the modern CPC is trying to paint him as some kind of loony liberal tax-and-spend clone of Justin Trudeau is just laughable. They might as well go full Trump and tell us he’s eating people’s cats, it would be just as credible.
The fact that so many of the current CPC supporters can’t see this, and keep parroting this nonsense, just tells me again they have no interest in winning back my vote.
Reports in Ottawa were 45 minutes to an hour earlier in the day. My sister stood in line for an hour. I just got back from voting, and it was literally just walk in and vote, no line at all, but one guy said the wait had been about 40 minutes earlier in the day.
Compared to the recent Ontario election, I think this means turnout is going to be much higher. I heard no reports of any significant wait times then. My own vote took maybe 5 minutes.
Also true when I was in the Forces… under a Tory government.
My 45 minute wait was at the Overbrook Community Centre in the east end of Ottawa.
I thought Pierre sounded surprisingly calm and cogent during the debate. Notwithstanding some of his views.
Damn, we’re practically neighbors! I voted at Gloucester High.
Well, 25 years ago we lived in Beaconwood, at the corner of Ogilvie and Montreal roads.
And last year we attended the Canada Day celebrations at Loyola Park. Now we’re not far from St Laurent Shopping Centre. We should meet for coffee sometime.
I watched the entire debate and I can’t imagine it changed any minds. They all acquitted themselves well and I think Paiken did a good job.
In other news, the wife and I just walked to our local Catholic school to vote. There were 4 or 5 polling stations in the gym. For some reason one had long lines of about 20 minutes while our poll there was just one person in front of us. Quick in and out with only 6 candidates to choose from.
Yeah, no one changes their mind due to a debate. (Even Biden did not change more than 1% or so.)
PP is arguably unwise to embrace “American” policies at this specific time, even if the policies may have merit. Three strikes. Paper straws. Woke wars. Focus on fentanyl. Ways to avoid the legislative branch.
Wait… isn’t he running for the legislative branch? (An executive role within it, sure, but also a legislative one.)
Maybe I meant judicial. Though the executive (e.g. president) is usually considered separate from the legislative (e.g. Congress).branch.
Our systems don’t quite match. The Judicial branches are similar, but the Executive (President, VP, and Cabinet) and Legislature (House and Senate) are combined as the PM and Cabinet are all legislators. The GG doesn’t really have executive powers, more like administrative ones.
Just to throw a bit of levity into this very interesting discussion, it appears that our election sparked enough interest in Australia for the thejuicemedia crowd to make a video:
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v= wT_n4Khmq0o
Edited: Discourse won’t let me post the link because it contains embedded media? I added two spaces to break the link, sorry for the inconvenience.
Voted!
Me too by mail last week tho my riding in Canada is always safe for the Libs.
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> PP lost this election due to behaviourial or ideological constraints. It was within his hands, he dropped the ball.
And the strategist that ran Doug Fords successful election campaign let him know it…and he appears not to have listened at all.
Since the demise of the Progressive Conservatives there is really not a home for the centrists.
Caroline Mulroney could have a shot for moving the Fed Cons left but she did not fare well in the provincial warefare which still leaves a bit of an odour hanging over the whole thing.
The executive power of the federal government is formally vested in the King, and exercised by the GovGen, but on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Constitution Act, 1867:
9 The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen.
That’s my point, that the US system doesn’t directly map to ours. Each of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial manage their own affairs and are independent in the US. Other parliamentary but republican countries may have a figurehead elected or selected president in lieu of the Crown.
You do realize you aren’t disagreeing, right?
In reality, who actually exercises Canada’s executive power? The Prime Minister. That’s how our system is supposed to work; the King is technically the Head of State and the GG his representative, but it’s all delegated to the Prime Minister and Parliament.
I think I’m going to have to vote strategically. In my area (Vancouver Island) the Liberals have zero chance of winning. I’ve actually never voted NDP before but I think I might this time.