I’m sorry, but the garbage negativity and lying are over with now.
You can stop. The Canadian people have decided that they did not believe the sad misinformation and crap that was being peddled against Trudeau.
Brian Mulroney said that people underestimated Trudeau at their peril. Justin Trudeau was underestimated before he entered politics. He was underestimated when he was first elected. He was underestimated when he became leader of the Liberal Party.
And people like you continue to post the same sad rubbish, and will underestimate him in the future.
Enjoy your cloudy, rainy depressing world that you live in. The rest of us are enjoying the sunshine today.
Full disclosure: I have not voted Liberal for 20 years, and did not vote Liberal in this election.
Do most Canadians vote for the party and not the person for their particular MP? In other words, do you care about Smith’s qualifications and positions relative to Jones, or do you just vote for the party that you want to control the government?
Moreover, M. Dion won his riding with 61.6% of the vote, just shy of 17,000 votes ahead of the second-place finisher. For all that the Conservatives were able to paint him as a wilting, nerdy loser, he was never a political lightweight.
Why would that make you laugh? Dion is an experienced and well respected MP who is known for being ethical and hard working. I expect he will have a place in the new cabinet.
Let’s not forget that while there are sharply divided opinions on the legacy of Justin’s father, he was indisputably one of Canada’s brightest and most colourful prime ministers, and IMHO, one of our greatest. When you consider the source, this is one of the highest compliments ever paid to a Canadian PM:
A scratchy, long-lost recording reveals a rambling Richard Nixon struggling to discuss trade issues in the Oval Office with a wily and eloquent Pierre Trudeau, someone the president had referred to hours earlier as a “son of a bitch.”
The two-hour conversation is believed to be the only discussion between the two men captured on the infamous Nixon recording system – and the storied chat that later prompted the sputtering president to call Trudeau “an asshole” and a “pompous egghead.”
Some MPs are personally very popular and would win regardless of their party’s fortunes, but on the whole I think “strategic voting” – voting for the party – tends to dominate, though the extent varies with the political climate. It certainly dominated this election, and even more so some years ago when the Conservative Party was practically wiped out after the Mulroney era.
More that I had mostly forgotten he existed, had not heard one word about or from him during the campaign, and then he’s sticking around to be in Parliament to see Harper just as another MP.
Dion has stuck around to be the representative of the people of the riding of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville. That tells me that he is interested in being a part of government, and doing the best he can for the people of his riding. (Although I’m sure he likes being paid well, and it’s a pretty good job!)
I do seriously doubt that we’ll see Mr. Harper stay as a sitting MP for very long though. He may not have pulled the “full Jim Prentice” by resigning his seat on election night, but I can’t see him stowing his massive ego and being simply another MP. Not gonna happen.
No, it’s under control of Elections Canada, a non-partisan department of the public service. They did get beat up a little the last decade or so, but have for the most part resisted partisan influence.
See the FAQ on who forms the redistributing committees here:
It occurred to me in a moment of reflection that the above-mentioned circumstances had a lot to do with what happened yesterday. After the Mulroney debacle, there were serious questions about the viability of the Progressive Conservative Party. Meanwhile a bunch of lunatics out west had formed a socially conservative far-right party called the Reform Party (think Ted Cruz and you get the idea). In 2003 it was led by a loon named Stephen Harper and had become quite prominent. It was seen as advantageous to the lunatic cause to merge with the Progressive Conservative Party which, having only a few seats at the time, didn’t feel it had much choice.
And so it was that a new Conservative Party was born and lurched far to the right, the word “progressive” quite appropriately dropped from its name, and Harper insinuated himself as its leader. For more than a decade it pretended to be a moderate, centrist party while Harper and his fellow loons used every trick in the book to enact their far-right ideologies, sometimes openly but more often by stealth – everything from executive decrees to silence federal scientists to draconian legislation hidden in massive omnibus bills that would make an American Republican proud. This is what ended yesterday, proving the old adage that you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. It’s over. And hopefully Harper’s resignation means that it’s over for good.
The last round of re-districting in Saskatchewan was significantly disadvantageous to the Conservatives, who screamed bloody murder at the injustice of there being entirely urban ridings in Saskatoon and Regina. They lost two of the new seats, too.
