With all the super old people in politics in general, I welcome that.
Also times change, and besides 40 is the new 20 or whatever.
Back to celebrating!
CBC is announcing that Justin Trudeau will be the next Prime Minister of Canada
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With all the super old people in politics in general, I welcome that.
Also times change, and besides 40 is the new 20 or whatever.
Back to celebrating!
IceDoesntHelp
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Okay. W.e.
RPG_Fanatic
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Thank you. The Conservative and Harper are finally out of power. Now comes the slow healing process.
I mean come on...
...such a hard farking choice here.
Edit: Here are the picture in question:
Americans would have voted for Harper for being loyal and keeping it real or some bullshit. =/
lmao
You're crazy, that is the body of a 30 year old, 35 at most
User 479360
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I'm not surprised. It seemed a given that Trudeau and the Liberals were going to win.
I wasn't able to vote.
It will be nice to have a PM with a personality as others have said. Hopefully he can help the economy, though.
I wasn't able to vote.
It will be nice to have a PM with a personality as others have said. Hopefully he can help the economy, though.
Why not Chewie?
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Last minute trip
gutter_trash
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I'm curious why the middle of the province is still strongly conservative compared to other regions. It can't be just "radio poubelle" as gutter keep trying to tell us. We even managed 2 liberal ridings in Quebec city.
Quebec is just a rainbow of parties.
those are regions that used to Federally elect Crediste MPs from Real Caoutte's rural social-conservative party le ``Credit Social``. And the same places that used to be big provincially for Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale.
Just look where the ADQ and the CAQ used to be strong provincially to find ancient pockets of social-conservatives here and there in those places
Mighty Chin
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You understand that it's not the same people that were in charge before right? Years have passed, the names change.
Yeah? So thats what makes the difference? A name?
Some have called Harper the last remnant of George W Bush and the Neo-Cons in North America
I remember novody even wanting him in, and a lot of, you dun goofed canadians, you wont be happy with him posts on social network after he was voted in.
A lot of hate for him during his run.
Think of Harper as a canadian version of Bush. And not in a necessarily "nicer" way too.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Actually kind of adorableAnd now the moment everyone has been waiting for: the cover of the Sun newspapers!
PumpkinSpice
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He was bad in a lot of ways. His policies were obviously conservative, but the biggest problem was his total contempt for democracy and parliament, and how his entire strategy for winning governance was to divide the country hard.
He also had the worst tendency to only really govern for his base, and many federal benefits went overwhelmingly to Conservative friendly ridings and regions. In many cases he was outright hostile to Liberal and NDP premiers and left-leaning mayors, which is just ridiculous.
I don't think he was the devil, like many do, but he needed to go.
Edit: For example here's what Ottawa's mayor, the most dependent on Federal co-operation, had to say today:
He was also a former provincial Liberal. Harper and Baird especially were just outright spiteful towards him.
We just hired this guy to look over our country..
Our PM knows what Comiccon is and even attends...he's so cool
Simon Belmont
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If nearly every single person in an organization has turned over, then yes it does make a difference.
Harper was worse than Bush Jr. imo, if the barriers placed by Chretien and Martin weren't put into place, Harper would have done far more damage. Like for starters he wanted to repeal same sex marriage, which can't be done. Also Harper has resorted to dog whistle racism and fascism, not just targeting Muslims, but with his hateful C-24 law (which is going to get repealed and throw out to the trash when Justin and the LPC come in), he basically turned a huge chunk of Canadians into second class citizens, regardless of their background or if they were even born in Canada.
Canada isn't known for this kind of fear mongering, so people didn't pay attention to Harper, but his tenure was basically the lost decade for Canada.
Fuck, I mean Dubbya wasn't even like that to Muslims, but the Saudis were his masters, so eh.
We just hired this guy to look over our country..
A person who knows how to have fun and laugh.
Never a bad thing.
Our PM knows what Comiccon is and even attends...he's so cool
Our PM favours Bruce Banner.
http://youtu.be/O0_7y0-TGXg
He should favour Wade!
gutter_trash
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Harper was a dumb ass for using Pauline Marois' loser strategy of identity politics and wedge issues.
Both Marois and Harper are losers today
We just hired this guy to look over our country..
awesome, maximum geek cred.
GuessMyUserName
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Hey now, Harper loves movies and TV shows, some of which you might find on online streaming services such as Netflix.
umop_3pisdn
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It's cheesy as fuck, and probably a bit naive, but I'm proud of my country again, and I didn't know how much I missed that under Harper.
Wait. So they are the 'experts'. Except when they say something about Harper?
Let's put it this way, they put Kim ahead of Jean. That ALONE debunks anything of value from that list.
If you look through the bills Chretien was behind that alone is enough to warrant a higher standing on the list.
I agree with you mostly. I wouldn't say I "hate" politics, but it's why I find it how worked up people get amusing.
A reddit thread, someone said they felt 'sick to their stomach' that they voted for liberal yesterday instead of conservative because of their hatred towards Stephen Harper. That's exactly how politics should go. You shouldn't be a deadset Liberal, Conservative, NDP, etc. supporter. The values of the parties and its leaders are going to change and you need to accommodate that and vote for the party/leader that best suits your views.
If Trudeau does a poor job and the new conservative leader is running a good platform then I'd have no qualms voting for them.
entremet
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Nerd communities tend to be self hating I've noticed. Very strange lol.
It's this messed up thing where people think old men who aren't going to live that long will actually enact reforms that matter to us.
I like the young blood in power. And the "he's just not ready" rhetoric wasn't enough to get enough people to vote for that. Let's get someone young and passionate going for a bit.
Different people. I vote every election but people get too apathetic to vote sometimes. People are less likely to change their party (which is messed up... vote for who is best this election) instead they just don't vote.
lmao, that's the Metro Jarry in Montreal. His office is on the other side of the street from that metro. Man, can't believe he's a prime minister.
New PM Justin went into a subway station this morning to shake hands and take selfies.
#manofthepeople
New PM Justin went into a subway station this morning to shake hands and take selfies.
#manofthepeople
Wow, we just hired this guy to look over our country..
Well, he hasn't started work yet, and he is taking some selfies with his supporters.
The fact that him interacting with the people who VOTED FOR HIM is a problem for you people is sad.
"Oh no our new PM has charisma! He actually wants to be seen with Canadian people! HOW CAN HE RUN CANADA?!?"
Still another week and a half before he takes office.
Let the man have his fun until then :3
gutter_trash
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I will take a Star Wars Comicon geek anyday over a bad Beatles cover bandWe just hired this guy to look over our country..
New PM Justin went into a subway station this morning to shake hands and take selfies.
#manofthepeople
Holding the phone in landscape instead of portrait.
#ThatsMyPM
I read that as a parody of this.
We just hired this guy to look over our country..
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