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Canadian General Election (OT) - #elxn42: October 19, 2015

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Barajas_201

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So what up with marijuana legalization in Canada? Lets do this North America! Mexcio is in, Supreme Court might rule in favor of legalization soon™.
Come on Obama, do this last thing before you leave!

Was fun watching the left win in Canada with you GAF (and seeing salty Canadian conservatives lose). Cheers from Mexico Canadian buddies!
 
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SickBoy

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I think the Tories have a leadership problem now. For as idiotic as it was, the Globe got it right in their endorsement when they said the Tories need to become a big-tent party, and I don't know who in their current stable fits that bill.

Also, hopefully Trudeau has the stones to actually move forward on electoral reform, despite this mandate. It would be easy to say "screw that" and cling to power, but for anyone who doesn't elevate fiscal policy above all other gods, reform would go a long way to protecting more progressive values in Canada.
 
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Mansbridge just playfully mocked the idea of the Liberals adopting a shift in electoral process given how tonight played out.
 
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Slavik81

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You know the Conservatives fucked up when Calgary and Edmonton look like they'll have Liberal ridings.

I will be very happy to see C24 and C51 gutted, but most of all I hope to see the Conservatives rethink their negative, divisive politics. Canada has sent a clear message that they will no longer reward that sort of destructive behaviour.
 
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Pedrito

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I'm relieved that Harper won't get to appoint anymore judges to the supreme court. Obviously, packing the court with conservative judges didn't really work out too well, but I get the feeling that he finally figured out how to do it with Russell Brown, Basically appoint some wingnut to the superior court of a province and promote him to the court of appeal and to the supreme court a few months later.
 
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Onion_Relish

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IndoAssassin said:
Without BC, the NDP wouldn't exist.
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...what? The NDP wasn't formed in BC, nor was it most recently the most powerful in BC. Obviously there has been a strong presence in BC, but they swept up a lot of seats in Ontario and Quebec last time around. The fact that they are currently holed up in BC speaks more to a popular quebecois sentiment for Trudeau than it does anything else.

The fact is that the Liberals and Conservatives are the only two parties that are fit to lead, but they should exist in an environment (under PR) where parties like the Greens and NDP have a bigger presence and help to shape domestic and foreign policy more fully.
 
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MikeyB

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I think the media should respect the Conservatives' previous Comms policy and give them exactly as much attention in media scrums as they sought over the past few years.
 
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You Are Viewtiful

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My riding (Richmond Hill) isn't as Liberal as I was hoping it would be. It's 47% Liberal and 43% Conservative. Provincially it was 50% Liberal and 35% Conservative. The neighbouring ridings Thornhill and Markham-Unionville are Conservative. Did the Cons do something to the tap water around here?? These results are so strange.

Ah well, I guess I should be happy the Liberals won, even if it's a surprisingly close margin.
 
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Alucard

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Time will tell how much to believe of Justin Trudeau the politician, but after his speech tonight, I can say that I definitely believe in Justin Trudeau the human being. Bravo. Inclusiveness, unity, positivity, transparency, and ambition. A breath of fresh air for all of Canada. Looking forward to this country rebuilding its international reputation, and I'm hopeful Trudeau can walk the walk. Even if he only achieves 50% of his message tonight, that will still be a massive step forward.
 
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mo60

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You can thank BC for making sure the conservatives lost more seats than the NDP. BC kinda saved the ndp from complete disaster.Maybe they can build from BC, Quebec and some of their strong areas this election for the next camapign.
 
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IndoAssassin

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Lol at Ed Fast winning in Abbotsford again. The poor choices made by this city's conservative politicians over the past 10 years, yet they continue to win.
 
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Sean C

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Calgary-Skyview has been called for the Liberals, so there's one Alberta minister, at least, Mr. Darshan Kang.

Still waiting on Kent Hehr in Calgary Centre, who is leading by a few hundred votes; and Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton Centre, ahead by about five hundred votes.
 
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Azzanadra

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mo60 said:
You can thank BC for making sure the conservatives lost more seats than the NDP. BC kinda saved the ndp from complete disaster.Maybe they can build from BC, Quebec and some of their strong areas this election for the next camapign.
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Honestly the best thing the NDP can do is reclaim the prairies. I don't know what went wrong in these past 50-60 years, but the "Greatest Canadian" would be disappointing to find the once-most progressive region of Canada become the most backwards.
 
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Pedrito said:
I'm relieved that Harper won't get to appoint anymore judges to the supreme court. Obviously, packing the court with conservative judges didn't really work out too well, but I get the feeling that he finally figured out how to do it with Russell Brown, Basically appoint some wingnut to the superior court of a province and promote him to the court of appeal and to the supreme court a few months later.
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I hate to tell you this, but he's been appointing lower court judges all this time. Guess who Trudeau gets to pick from?
 
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Sibylus

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Kelowna goes red
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The first and only federal election (I've been able to and participated in three) where my vote has ever mattered.
 
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Alucard

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And yeah, I also teared up at the hijab story and almost everything after it.

MY PM.

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A leader should inspire, and he definitely did that for me tonight. 'Nite, ya'll.
 
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AlphaTwo00

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You Are Viewtiful said:
My riding (Richmond Hill) isn't as Liberal as I was hoping it would be. It's 47% Liberal and 43% Conservative. Provincially it was 50% Liberal and 35% Conservative. The neighbouring ridings Thornhill and Markham-Unionville are Conservative. Did the Cons do something to the tap water around here?? These results are so strange.

Ah well, I guess I should be happy the Liberals won, even if it's a surprisingly close margin.
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This area is home to a lot of minorities, which would make you assume that they'd stay away from the Cons. However, the tax talk is a much stronger pull and influence on this demographic. I feel uncomfortable when I say it, but in many of these immigrant cultures, some of the more conservative messages such does still hold some weight (as a Chinese Canadian, it still saddens me that even as we're immigrants to this nation, many holds less than ideal standards towards other cultures as well). The conservative message taps into that a bit too well for my liking.
 
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I'm quite surprised how Harper got so many people not interested in politics to go and vote him out. Or at least that's how it seems like with the people I know.
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Maybe because people care about human rights? Or maybe they care about their privacy which is our right? Or maybe they care for our scientific community which now spends less money than India, Berlin, and Taiwan since Harper took office. We had 22 reports on climate change Compared to all G7 which was the lowest compared to the next in line which had over 100 reports.

He even made the science community lobbying against him due to his dictatorship level control over the scientific process.
 
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Sean C

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W.H. Auden once wrote:

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade[.]

Well, at this hour I'm comfortably in my bed (it's past 2 AM here; God, work is going to be a challenge tomorrow), but hopefully we have indeed seen the end of a low, dishonest decade tonight.
 
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