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  • Hegz@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Is the guy in the blue suit reading a book behind that sign or something?

  • dihkbozo@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.

    • Warehouse@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      Though I’m pretty sure that MAGA north pivoted to the CPC the same way the NDP broke for the Liberals.

  • Warehouse@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    “He’s earned his right to stay as leader.”
    Dude it’s not even guaranteed that he’s keeping his seat.

  • Warehouse@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    “We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
    NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      It’s not even a coalition.

      Coallitons are when the party with the most seats (but not a majority) doesn’t form government because the other parties all work together to form government.

      When the party with the most seats (but not majority) forms government with the help of another party on non confidence votes , it’s just a minority government.

      They just try to scare people with the coalition talk to try and make it seem nefarious, such as when it almost happened to Harper, but it’s a legitimate part of how our government works.

      There was a point while votes were being counted tonight, we could have theoretically had a con+bq coalition government.

      Edit: and even as of right now, the cons+bq+ndp could form a coalition, but I can’t imagine those 3 parties ever working together other than to trigger an election via vote of no confidence.

      • FarFromIt@lemmy.ca
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        47 minutes ago

        Not quite true. Coalitions are typically starting with the party with the largest vote count to invite others into coalition talks. If they find willing partners that make up a majority and there are enough commonalities between all the coalition partners they enter into a contract. And each party in the coalition participate in the government with ministers and everything.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        And the BQ wouldn’t form a coalition with the current CPC, they would need to get their house in order and move left a lot for that to happen.

        There was a point where the BQ could have been the only party keeping the Liberals in power though, the NDP and Greens didn’t have enough seats to help them pass a vote, but I just woke up and we’re back to the same situation as before the election… Would be funny if the Liberals get 171 and the Greens also hold the balance of power.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah. The staying on as leader thing can be put down to the “close loss” speech being written ahead of time. Not sure why he didn’t change that part, though.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Singh just stepped down and hopefully the change will mean more potential for the NDP in the next election.

    I’m Indigenous Canadian and I fully wish that we could have a country and a political environment where we could support and stand by a visible minority to represent a major political party. But I have to temper that with the knowledge that our country is not fully ready for that kind of person. As much as we would like to believe that we could become a more progressive, open and accepting culture, we are still not there and it will be a few more decades or lifetimes before that can become a reality.

    It would be more possible if we actually had an election system that was more representative of our people’s wishes … Proportional Representation would make it more possible to have major political leaders and politicians who represented visible minorities.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 hours ago

      This might be the most interesting thing so far, actually, with the orange-blue swing votes in second place.

      Poilievre could leave this as a freshly minted lobbyist, his first normal job.

    • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
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      8 hours ago

      Singh just announced he is stepping down as party leader.

      I dont believe the hype. I think he’d have been great.

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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        7 hours ago

        I don’t dislike Singh but I don’t think he was a good leader.

        I don’t think he saw his own failures coming, but I’ve been saying for a while this would happen.

        I don’t think he did a good enough job getting the message out to the working class, and that needs to be the NDP foundation. Unless it’s a worker party, what actually separates it from the greens?

        I actually do like most of their platform, and the platform is bold. I Also like that he did push for dental and pharma, but as released those programs are a huge frustration to me.

        • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
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          7 hours ago

          I think he performed well in the debates. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NDP has trouble filling his shoes. Though they may be able to by picking someone who is more ‘demographically palatable’ to the average Canadian.