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Elizabeth May the tie breaker and forms coalition with Justin Trudeau
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Canadian General Election (OT) - #elxn42: October 19, 2015
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Elizabeth May the tie breaker and forms coalition with Justin Trudeau
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Thanks all! The CBC's Canada Votes dashboard is mostly blank right now with a countdown to the livestream, but does seem to work from here. Looking forward to it.
Grab some Shisha at Gitana before grabbing a beer at Dieu du Ciel and finishing with a night cap at Harricana.
I don't think Trudeau would be able to listen to her "sanctimonious crap".
:lol Edmontonians popping up all over the thread
This was the Millwoods rally with Amarjeet Sohi, right? What are the prospects of him winning the riding?gutter_trash
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when Western Canada and Quebec complain about Toronto being the center of Power, it proves them right with comments like yours
Quebec produced the best Prime Ministers of all time. Laurier, St-Laurent, Trudeau and Chrétien then tomorrow a new Trudeau. (only Pearson can match them on progressiveness)
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don't forget to vote y'all.
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We should really throw this link in the OP, top of the page so everyone vising can see it
Looking at the regional breakdowns, if they seriously get to 60% in Atlantic Canada I may have to revise my estimates of how many seats they're going to win.
Thing is, if you look at the polling the Tories' numbers never really went up or down during the campaign. They were at around 30% the whole way through, plus or minus a bit. They lost their ground mainly during the preceding four years, and couldn't get any of it back.
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oh yeah!! now you talking!
Harper never recovered from his comments about Atlantic Canada having a a culture of defeat
I was mocking BQ voters. I don't actually care where a party leader is from.
I wouldn;t be so sure of that yet Gutter.
I can do 4:30!
Pretty much. Hoping they don't reach majority.
I'm not expecting a majority, still, but for fun I did the math, and an exact majority (170 seats) is precisely 5 times as many seats as the Liberals won in the previous election. Likewise, if this 39ish figure is right, Trudeau will have more than doubled the Liberals' popular vote from the previous election.
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Go for it, you have all my support!
Oh! Great political satire then!
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Trudeau's job when chosen as leader was to move the Liberals out of 3rd place and at the least as Official Opposition....
At no point in canadian history has a 3rd place party ever won the following election... let alone get a majority.
Trudeau will probably make history in about 24 hours which is insane.The Liberals will be the first party to go from 3rd place to a minority in Canada ever.
Also... first father/son prime ministers
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at no point prior to 2011 have the Liberals ever fell to 3rd place.
Ignatieff hiding in Boston with a paper bag over his head
lol this is the exact scenario where "strategic voting" goes wrong.
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Trudeau is a sort of unofficial BCian. He spent a significant part of his education and professional career in BC.
hence the weed legalization platform
CanadaGAF is split between the Liberals and NDP for the most part.
I support the Liberals. And not because I'm for "anyone but Harper". I wouldn't vote for the NDP either.
Liberal. Not as good as NDP but a monumental improvement over Harper's Conservatives.
Simple answer: Anything but Conservative
Reality: it's complicated. Usually a combination of Liberal, NDP, minority and majority.
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First 3rd to 1st... First Dynasty. It's a shame he's also not the youngest.
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at this point in 2011, we already knew Harper was winning right? i forgot how it went. i remember the orange crush being somewhat of a surprise
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ABC - Anyone but Conservative. I personally voted NDP.
My ideal outcome is either an NDP Government backed by the Liberals or a Liberal Government backed by the NDP. In general, that's the ideal combo and historically is the one which gave us Healthcare
voted NDP, but the chances of them winning is slim. A Liberal win is ok with me.
I voted Green, since they're the only party that's pushing for a Guaranteed Income Supplement. I'm in Edmonton-Whitemud (or was it Riverbend?) so it's pretty much a lock for the CPC.
Yup. Although, I would point out that we probably won't see a total collapse of the right-wing vote this time around...
I'm thinking Canada Poligaf - Our Long National Nightmare Is Over... but that's a little hyperbolic
Yup. Although, I would point out that we probably won't see a total collapse of the right-wing vote this time around...
I'm thinking Canada Poligaf - Our Long National Nightmare Is Over... but that's a little hyperbolic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2011
It looks like a Conservative minority was expected with NDP as official opposition, going by the polls on the final day. Going by the final week, it looked like a Conservative majority.
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the sad part is that French talk radio and French language television have grilled him for making mistakes when he speaks French
it's not his fault though, his mom spoke English, his dad spoke both.
98.5's Benoit Dutrizac never held any punches to make fun of Trudeau when he speaks French. Always making fun of him.
Plus when Trudeau showed up on Tout Le Monde en Parle, they grilled him about what language he speaks to his children and that nonesense. Trudeau said that his wife Sophie is a francophone and that they speak French with their kids.
When it comes to nationalists, you always have to prove to be "good enough" for them to accept you
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Just for the meltdowns there would be in this thread, I'd love to see them get super-close to majority, with the Bloc holding the balance of power.
A Liberal minority with NDP as official opposition.
Crazy! The numbers look almost exactly the same, but the parties have switched spots.
2011:
2015:
Anyone but Harper's Conservatives.
This would be nice.
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I'm sure no francophone quebecer was ever made fun of for his mistakes in english however.
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did you watch that episode of Tout le Monde en Parle? Did you find those questions about "authenticity" to be acceptable?
oh yeah, Thomas Mulcair. Mulcair made fun of Jean Chrétien's English in the House of Commons. Mulcair is a dick for making fun of Chrétien's accent
Trivia, that's actually not true (the majority part is), depending on how you define "win", I guess. The Conservatives came third in 1921, behind the Liberals and the upstart Progressive Party, and then won the most seats in the 1925 election. They didn't end up taking office immediately, of course, hence the whole King-Byng affair.
Liberal. I'm ancestrally Liberal, of course (my maternal grandfather was a cabinet minister in Gerald Regan's provincial government in 1970s Nova Scotia, and my dad was president of the PEI Liberals for a while).
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