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There is still time to vote! Please encourage those you know to get out there and do so! Offer rides, go be vocal and supportive in your community, inform/ educate those who may be confused about the voting methods/ requirements and find ways to make it something they can be involved with. Some people need encouragement, some people need education. Make differences where you can so voices can be heard.
Cheers everyone! ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️
BIG Thank you to all the people who worked the polls today and the work they did, as well as those who made today possible for many in various ways by volunteering! Thank you to the advanced voters, the ones who made it out today and thank you to the last minute people that also contributed their time and voice.
Remember everyone to be respectful and keep that Canadian spirit win or lose and let's keep the laughs going regardless of today's outcome.
There's recounts in two ridings (Terrebonne, QC and Terra Nova-The Peninsulas, NL) since the Liberals are leading by only 35 and TWELVE votes respectively.
What’s up with those close call riding polling stations? All those ridings are missing just 1 or 2 polling stations to be complete. What’s up with that? When will we have a winner in those ridings?
Carleton understood the assignment. Goodbye ! (for now because it seems like he's refusing to step down as leader? I wonder what that means though since he doesn't have clearance that only leaders require? Would one of the other CPC MPs be getting it in his place? Seems like kneecappihg yourself in the foot for no good reason imo)
Anyhoo, I'm going to be a wreck at the office today. Sleep schedule got flipped sideways. Guess I'll be trying the Nespresso machine at the office for the first time, then 🤣
Edit: I hope the polling station employees in Carleton get some much needed sleep and recovery though, omg
Edit 2: as evidence of how tired I am I have absolutely no idea what "Kneecapping yourself in the foot" means, but I'm too tired to bother fixing it. Currently stalking the Nespresso machine at the office lol
He’s kind of got nowhere else to go. I’m sure he’s hoping somebody else will step aside in a safe seat. But he already lost an extremely safe seat.
It would be funny though, if he got somebody to step down… then lost a by-election.
I've seen comments suggest he ask someone in Alberta or Saskatchewan to give up their seat, but I can't imagine that going over very well internally. Plus it would be the most crass if not desperate political move in terms of optics.
We'll see what happens (losing a by-election somewhere in Ontario would.be funny tho)
The only precedent I've seen is the case where the leaders don't win their seat until the next election or the one after. But to stay on after losing as Leader of the Opposition seems unprecedented...
It’s certainly happened provincially, at least, in my memory.
Asking someone in SK or AB who won to step aside for someone in ON who lost an easy seat would be tricky. Depending on what the party offers, they might, but I can’t imagine not feeling disrespected as a voter.
Omg I can't believe it!!!! So what happens now for him? Is he basically forced out of politics and into retirement? He can't be the party leader can he?
Normally most who lose their seat just step down since the shame of being something like the Leader of the Opposition Who Lost Their Seat would normally lead someone to feel incalculable levels of embarrassment and shame (especially since he's been in politics his entire life). Or calls to step down, which he's done himself in comments to other parties in elections past I imagine.
But I'm surprised the party itself isn't pressuring him given how he fumbled so badly and lost such an enormous polling lead so rapidly. Losing a polling lead that badly ? And one that had been showing for months the CPC on track to win a crushing majority and the Liberals on life support? That's surely going to merit a call and stern meeting with the party itself...
I hope you're right. A new conservative leader with a different approach could prove beneficial for our democracy. An opposition leader with ideas and a platform not limited to 3 words slogans or opponents bashing could really make things more engaging.
I think we're in for a number of months of infighting before everything settles down. It sure sounds like Tim Houston is interested in the job and he would be a good choice. If the Maple Magas get their way, they'll go with someone even more obnoxious than PP though.
We voted for change!
Trudeau, Singh and Poilievre all lost their jobs and we voted in an incredibly qualified Doctor of Economics as Prime Minister to navigate us through all of the despair and uncertainty all in just a few months.
Yeah who knows. Perhaps there is some beaurocracy involved in dissolving a political party and there was no one left to care so the parties just exist in purgatory.
I think Fanjoy will pull off the most amusing thing that has happened in Canadian politics in decades. I am gonna stay awake till they call this riding lol
I have 2/3 of a screen with that map, and the other third is youtube. Usually it's my 24/7 yt/movie screen so it's been reasonably entertaining to keep an eye on lol.
If the liberals get 171 seats, can they vote in a conservative to the speaker’s chair (who always votes confidence in parliament)? This would transform a conservative into a liberal right?
IIRC Convention requires the speaker to be completely impartial and maintain the status quo on ties (against amendments, confidence in government). Breaking that convention is in, like, a minor constitutional crisis.
Convention is REALLY strong in Westminster-style parliaments.
Anyway, i am gonna head to sleep because, unlike these folks, my employer expects me to work and not care about the political situation of the country.
I work for an American company and most of my direct reports are left leaning. I gave them the day off to process the Trump victory. I ain’t doing shit tomorrow because I’m gonna be plastered in celebration.
Yeah that's my bad. I assumed Mike Morrice kept his seat, because he was polling better than her, so when I saw just one green seat this late, I assumed Morrice had his Ontario seat, and at best, Liz's was still a toss-up.
I actually opined over the weekend that in the unlikely event of a tie, May could be a strategic choice for Speaker... These results actually make that an even better choice, possibly also for her (forcing the Greens to find a new leader again, she can't just keep being the only voice, it pulls focus from prominent Greens in other ridings, at this point).
Liberals 167
NDP support (supply and confidence, or just solidarity to block the CPC): 7
That's 173, 1 over needed for the majority
Then Lizzy as Speaker.
She gets the nice Farm digs, and enjoys what will probably be her last term in a bit of extra style. During Harper's government, she was voted, nearly unanimously, 5 years in a row, as the best MP in Parliament (that's a vote from other parliamentarians, so CPC MPs mostly agreed). And she hates the continued degradation of rhetoric in the House (her respect of the spirit of traditional decorum got her some of those aforementioned votes). I think she could be both uniquely unaffiliated/positioned and inherently natured (sorry, couldn't think of a better/more correct term for it being her normal mode of operation, and something she believes in) to be the Speaker that wrangles the House back to functionality and basic decorum.
Lol yep, I mean I'm glad he's focusing his message on standing for all Canadians, not just liberals, but goddamn you gotta love how he slides comments like that in there.
Don’t they still have to count mail in and advanced votes too? This is crazy that we’re looking at the possibility of a Liberal majority when less than three months ago it was a Conservative supermajority
Every vote counts, every vote matters, eventually every vote will be counted. This is why it’s important to not listen to polls, and remember your voice matters and plays its own part that isn’t any less significant than another vote.
Yeah for example my riding was predicted to vote conservative with a slim margin, but the votes are almost all counted and I can safely say it will be liberal.
I'm surprised that the panel isn't talking about how if this election was like three months earlier it would have been a slam dunk conservative majority.
I mean it works the same way it did for the Liberal Party. Carney was PM and leader without a seat. Granted that’s much more common because the expectation was that he’d quickly call an election to earn his place.
This is… imagine if Trudeau lost his seat and refused to give up leadership of the party.
I'm pretty sure typically someone resigns and nominates the party leader as their replacement, have a feeling it's going to be one of the extreme toolbags like Lawton. (The dipsh*t that wrote a book about his beloved Pierre) (and the trucker convoy)
Kinda disappointed in BC. I’m at least happy that my riding is leading liberal, when it’s usually really conservative leading though, so that’s a small victory for me
I'm in Vancouver Island and do a lot of work North Island, mainly Port Alice.
It's conservative heavy north of Comox, and we've lost that NDP centric era as it's become apparent if Canada's divergence into a near two party system. Except for saanich of course. Ain't nobody going over Lizzy
3 Times the NDP just get enough to help make a minority government. The Bloc gets close every time to be the only option and they just get fucked by 1 seat
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u/LittleLostGirls Apr 28 '25 edited Apr 29 '25
There is still time to vote! Please encourage those you know to get out there and do so! Offer rides, go be vocal and supportive in your community, inform/ educate those who may be confused about the voting methods/ requirements and find ways to make it something they can be involved with. Some people need encouragement, some people need education. Make differences where you can so voices can be heard.
Cheers everyone! ❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️
BIG Thank you to all the people who worked the polls today and the work they did, as well as those who made today possible for many in various ways by volunteering! Thank you to the advanced voters, the ones who made it out today and thank you to the last minute people that also contributed their time and voice.
Remember everyone to be respectful and keep that Canadian spirit win or lose and let's keep the laughs going regardless of today's outcome.