When will he be officially appointed? Do they still kiss hands in Canada?
Tell you what: Show me the evidence that the people who draw up constituency borders are apolitical, unpaid Elections Canada volunteers who commute from Mars.
And tell me why I’m a conspiracy theorist when the Tories were tossed by the electorate and I supply links refuting your conspiracy conspiracy theory.
By the way, I’ve never said it was The Harper Government™ that engineered the polling-place “irregularities.”
I don’t care which party fills the PMO with ruthless, cutthroat psychopaths. Next time it could be the Liberals.
I was waiting for the voting-turnout percentage since the record advance-polling numbers.
It’s the biggest since 1993. at 69.6 per cent.
This is actually a very good answer.
In general I think Canadians tend to vote for the party (and leader) they support, and may not even know who the local candidate is until they get to the polling station.
However, if they have a candidate in their riding who is particularly well known/charismatic, then they may vote for that candidate. Conversely, if the sitting MP for a riding is widely disliked in the riding, they may get the boot no matter what their party.
Much of what happened yesterday was (I think) people voting for the Liberals in general. But Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party was elected because she is well known and respected in her riding.
I really, really hope that Mr. Trudeau follows through on his promise to move away from the increasing centralization of power in the PMO, which has been to the detriment of Parliament. It’s a process that his father started in the early 1970’s, and has culminated in the absolute, disgraceful mess of a politicized PMO under Harper that seemed to be the de facto governing body of this country.
If you believe that Harper is not a complete and utter liar about the Duffy affair, then you must therefore admit that the entire PMO had turned into a rogue operation, instructing cabinet ministers what to say, bribing senators and telling senate committee what to put in their reports.
CBC radio interview, Jean Pierre Kingsley, former head of Elections Canada;
“PM Harper is gaming the system”, “what it does is completely distort everything we’ve ever fought for.”
Look it up for yourself, if you don’t believe me!
Here’s an excellent wrap-up of Harper’s years in office. It should be copied and pasted into every high-school history textbook.
That Liberal majority is a sucker punch to Harper, right between the eyes. Harper wanted the demise of the liberal party so today he must be smarting. But talk to Conservatives and they “don’t understand” how the country could want change. It just boggles the mind to consider that this party isn’t the party of balanced budgets if you care to dig into it.
The NDP camp is now blaming the strategic vote, well it could have went either way. It could very well have broke NDP. But Mulcair I think played it too safe. The risk taker was Trudeau, no risk - no reward.
They established electoral districts throughout Alberta. 
I do think Justin took a few strategies out of the Obama playbook… “this election isn’t about me, it’s about you” “a strong middle class” and a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian reminded me of “This isn’t a Red America or a Blue America it’s the United States of America.” While Trudeau has a long way to go to match the Oratory brilliance of Obama, he’s that fresh face with a vision of how Canadians view themselves, that resonated with a lot of Canadians.
Sucker punch is right. Looks good on him. It must be galling to see JT pick up a majority his first time out.
For me, his finest moment was when some reporter asked, in front of a crowd of his supporters, some sort of snarky or gotcha kinda question, and as the crowd grumbled and began to boo, he instantly stopped them. Told them they cannot Boo the press. It’s their JOB to ask hard questions. We NEED them to ask hard questions.
That spoke volumes for me.
It’s interesting to contrast that with Harper, a control freak about message management who held the media in about as much contempt as he held federal scientists. And woe be to him who asked Harper a hard question.
Will the NDP be looking for a new leader?
Good question. The pity of it is that of the three leaders, Mulcair scored highest on the “trustworthy” scale. He always struck me as both competent and honest.
I love how he won, but also with an absolute majority. I think after eight years or more, a country needs a new face and ideas. Glad to see Canada voting for a new start. Hopefully he does a good job as prime minister.
Not that I necessarily hated Stephen Harper, on some foreign policy issues he was right.
Lying? That he only was ever even considered for leader of the Liberals because of his name? What did he ever do in his life other than have the forward thinking of having PET as his father that got him into this position? Whether he is actually competent isn’t relevant and may just be lucky for Canada if he is.
What the f* are you on about? Because I honestly have no idea. Duffy was appointed by the PM (through the GG) as that is how Senators get into the Senate.
What “position” are you referring to? He certainly didn’t get into the position of winning a Liberal majority and forming the next government because of his name, he did it by running a winning campaign. Did his name help him get elected to the leadership by the party members? I’m sure it did. There are large numbers of Canadians who have the ability to be excellent PMs, just like there are large numbers of Americans who have the ability to be excellent presidents. Only a select few get the opportunity, and of every single one you could say “s/he would not be in that position if it were not for … [insert completely irrelevant life circumstance]”. Such is life.
The only relevant question here is whether an incompetent has been elevated to Prime Minister of Canada solely because of his name, and the answer clearly is “no”. He won a national election. It does indeed remain to be seen how good a PM he will be, but you could say that for anyone. You could also say that Harper was the worst in living memory, if not longer.
Thanks for those links and clarifying my misunderstanding the results (I had misunderstood the 54% to be of votes not of seats.)
Liberal party leader.