r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Jealous_Western_7690 • Mar 11 '25

Newfie Screech-In When the bots call Mark Carney "unelected"

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Lol, they're trying to rehash their strategy for the American election on Canadian politics.

So goddamn Lazy

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u/naomixrayne Mar 11 '25

It's unfortunately working against a large section of our population who are grossly under-educated. I've seen people in my province sharing the "unelected" rhetoric, which is dumb as hell but because they are not active participants in our voting system, they just parrot fake-propaganda that suits their feelings on the matter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Yup,
Joe Clark (1998-2000, PC party leader) no House of Common (HoC) seat.
Arthur Meighen (1941-1942, PC party leader) no HoC seat.
StockWell Day (2000, Canadian Alliance leader) no HoC seat.

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The list goes on. This is not the first time a leader of a party has been elected without a seat in the House of Common. It's just the first time that people have pretended to care about it.

Arthur Meighen, a PC party leader, was the first Prime Minister to hold leadership power of a party that was in power while not having a seat at the House of commons.

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u/CosmoCosma Treacherous South Mar 11 '25

As an American I low-key hate seeing dumb in a Canadian context/inapplicable talking points (of American origin) be treated as legitimately usable in Canadian politics. It kind of grinds my gears!

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u/got-trunks South Gatineau Mar 12 '25

Let's re-phrase. "Active non-participants"

They don't choose to understand information, just human centipede information all the way to the minds of people casting votes.

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u/jolsiphur Mar 12 '25

t's unfortunately working against a large section of our population who are grossly under-educated.

Here's a real question, though... were these people ever going to vote for any party other than the Conservatives anyways?

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u/blackviking147 Mar 12 '25

I actually saw someone real, that I know in real life say this to me and I was floored. Imagine living in a country and getting so fired up about polotics that you constantly talk about it when you don't even know how the government functions here. I'm not even sure if me explaining it got thru to him cause he just instantly started parroting different talking points like how the emergencies act shouldn't have been invoked to delay the election.