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As a dumbass American... Go Canada! Fuck yeah good work!
yes, it is so relieving that this right wing populist trend seems to be failing in our closest neighbor. Hopefully the failure of this administration will wake a lot more places up, and create a greater push back against this trend to the far right.
Really proud of Canada not going down the same path my dumb ass country did
It wasn't by a large margin.. Canadians are turning fascist just like a lot of other countries.
Yes, we narrowly avoided going down the Trump route this time, but I don't find this picture particularly encouraging (NDP, Green and BQ are the three most progressive parties):
Source: National Post
It's not straightforward to understand that, since this is a chart of seats not votes, and you can get weird effects with first-past-the-post and strategic voting, but it certainly looks like the electorate is moving rightwards at the expense of progressives.
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Hopefully Australia follows suit, as we have our own Temu Trump in opposition coming into our election.
Meirdas Touch once again. The orange shit stain backs a Con and all voters take that as a sign that the person is a piece of shit and votes opposite.
Sometimes it works nicely.
Top Poilievre defense he did use a lot of Trump's talking points and techniques. Branding himself as Trump light.
He showed who he was, and people believed him, as they should.
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The cherry on top:
Little PP got his ass kicked. I love it !
I don't know how it works there. Was Pierre running in two races?
Would there have a special election for this seat if he had won both?
What are the odds he loses support and goes quiet after losing both, especially his backup incumbent election? (Knowing hard losses used to discourage people, but not always now)
Prime Minister is similar to Speaker of the House- everyone gets elected in their district and then the majority party (or in the case of a ~~functional democracy~~ multi-party system, a coalition of parties that add up to 51% of the elected officials) picks their own Speaker/Prime Minister without further input from the public. In practice, if you're already the party leader then you're sure (95%~) to be the prime minister after your party wins/gets the biggest share in the election
No one actually "runs for Prime Minister". The Prime Minister is simply the leader of the governing party. That is determined by the number of seats each party wins. The PM is almost always an elected MP, but as demonstrated for the past few weeks they don't have to be.
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Narrowly.
Are you guys not horrified of what’s happening south? If you interpret this as a win and go on, your country is going to be mega conservative in like a decade.
No, this is an existential crisis, and you need to shut off the propaganda machines before it’s too late.
It's after a full decade of Liberal rule. Do you know how hard it is to win after that long being blamed for everyone's problems? This is huge.
And damning for Poilievre. He not only had the opportunity to win by banging on the usual triad of "time for a change", "we need to unleash the economy", and "tax relief" but he lost his seat in the process. It's easy to point at the gains the conservatives made, but losing at all after a decade of having another party in place, especially in very difficult times, is impressive. Even if he isn't ousted or doesn't step down, he may be seen by the electorate as incapable of bringing home a win.
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Quite true. The reason for celebration is that had the conservatives won they were planning to defund our public broadcaster right off the bat. We need all kinds of reforms but having the CBC around to report on them will be quite important.
Agreed. Incumbents always do worse in the next election. Makes me shudder to think what the result of the next election is going to be. Trudeau's latest term was really bad and they got no punishment for it whatsoever thanks to the gift from the south. And Canada seems to be moving further and further away from proportional representation. So who will voters swing to next election?
Great result for today's Canadians. Terrifying result for future Canadians.
I would point out though that a CPC win would have been a terrifying result for future AND current Canadians. So I guess that's a small win?
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I'm happy for you Canada.
You succeeded where America couldn't.
Are y'all accepting asylum for programmers / tech professionals?
If you're serious, start looking for companies hiring up here. As I understand it's not easy, even for economic class immigrants, but I work in tech and I work with many immigrants (albeit not usually from the US, but it's a different world now). Mind you - please look carefully into the financial impacts as it is a change from the US. Salaries are lower and taxes generally higher, which may or may not be offset in your context in other ways (healthcare a big one, income tax deductions, etc.) But many people, myself included, prefer Canada regardless of the reduced compensation. It's not always about money.
Asylum, not yet. There's still a treaty on the books recognising America as equivalently safe. Presumably it will get rolled back soon.
If you're serious, I can send you to the points quiz for economic immigrants.
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Ironically, Trudeau hanging around for a long as he did may have saved Canada. If this election had happened in the middle of last year, the Conservatives would have probably won and combined with Trump, it would have been a disaster. Possibly the smartest/luckiest thing he has ever done.
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Hopefully Britain follows Canadas footsteps (as we might vote in wish trump)
Please, he's Pound-Stretcher Trump. Not even Poundland would stock him.
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Carney should send a thank you note to Trump for helping him win the election
Canada should give Trump the Order of Canada for unifying the country. Do it.
Having a criminal history would likely make him ineligible.
There's no outright rule against it but several people have been removed from the order for committing crimes.
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Felons aren't allowed in Canada
Trump’s truculence has infuriated Canadians
That is a 100% new word to me. 😐
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I cannot wait to see how the Trump admin will spin this. Either that or they have a meltdown and immediately call it a rigged election. Bonus points if he tells Canadians to storm their capital.
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Australian chiming in here and we have an election in a few days time.
The current Opposition Leader is running on a platform of Trump Wannabee.
I really really hope our country tells him to stick it up his fucking ass.
thankfully our 2 party preferred polls look almost the identical to canadas!
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