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      It wasn’t by a large margin… Canadians are turning fascist just like a lot of other countries.

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        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):

        Change in seats between last election and this election (projected)

        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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          Maybe the left is realizing that they are fighting for really critical human rights, their autonomy and their country, so it’s time to stop splitting the vote among marginal left wing parties?

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            Certainly there’s a lot of strategic voting going on. But you don’t see the Liberal (centrist) seat count increasing as the NDP goes down: the gains are all with the Conservatives. If it were a matter of progressives deciding to just consolidate with Liberals, you’d expect to see the Liberal seat count go up as the smaller parties went down. To me this suggests either that some people are flipping directly from left to right or that there is a general rightwards drift, with right-wing Liberals going over to Conservatives and left-wing strategic voters filling in some of the gap they leave for the Liberals. In either case it’s concerning that when the Conservatives fielded their most far-right leader so far, their share of the seats went up.

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              In either case it’s concerning that when the Conservatives fielded their most far-right leader so far, their share of the seats went up.

              It’s not surprising at all, the 2 conservative parties in Germany are the most far-right and second most far-right parties. They host politicians who are grandsons and granddaughters of real Nazi SS officers (like the leader of the AfD: Alice Weidel, her grandpa was directly responsible for thousands of civilian deaths as military judge and prosecuter and later chief military judge for Adolf fucking Hitler. They copy their talking points one to one and would love to see people dissappear, who are not looking like them. Conservatives, for the most part, are atrociously far-right.

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              There’s strategic voting going both ways as some people are simply tired of seeing the Liberals in power, they would have been back the following election if the cons had won.

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            But splitting the vote isn’t an issue with proportional representation is it? If the libs lose one seat to the greens that’s still one seat not occupied by the cons.

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            The liberals are not a left wing party, but ya people are just scared of trump and our own conservatives, understandably so.

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            I don’t think the answer to the corrupting influence of America’s rotting republic is to become a two party system.

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                Electoral reform would be a good start. Ranked Choice isn’t perfect, but it’s easy to implement and much better than our current system, asvwe build appetite for a truly progressive voting method.

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          On what planet is the BQ (bloq quebecois) a progressive party? NDP and green for sure.

          Bloc are literally a Quebec only nationalist/separatist. The cons are angry at them because they “stole” a bunch of their Quebec voters/seats. If that’s your target audience you aren’t on the progressive end of the spectrum.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_Québécois

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            In the policies section of the page you link, there are a number of positions that are typically associated with “progressive” politics.

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              And a broken clock is right twice a day. Just because a couple policies from a party are progressive doesn’t overwrite the fact that their founding tenants are hyper nationalistic (if you count Quebec as an independent nation).

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        I’m hoping the margin was tight because most people, even the ones who voted liberal, held their nose as they did it. We don’t like a party being in charge for this long, but the alternative is worse and worse every election. Pierre poilievre was however the worst and most dickish conservative I’ve seen in a while, so I hate how close this was.

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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.

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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.

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      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.

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        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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      What do you mean “narrowly”? It’s a clean victory and the trumpist conservative leader lost his own riding.

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        Liberals projected to hold a slim minority, the NPD was all but annihilated, Liberals will be forced to reach across the isle and work with the BQ.

        Are the Bloc easier to work with than the NDP? history suggests no.

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          The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement. This is a good result for those of us who don’t trust a banker to not sell out the working class.

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            The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement.

            Or a less formal agreement, if there is no appetite for a similar arrangement as last time.

            Or, my preference, working to consensus with both BQ and NDP.

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              The thing is, the Liberals are in a good enough position that they can maintain power with the support of the BQ or the NDP. This gives them some leverage if they tried to play the two parties against each other, and the NDP may be more willing to help given their low head count. Maintaining relevance could be a strong motivating factor. All that said, I hope that Carney instead chooses to build consensus. If he is able to, it will lead to more stability for our country in troubled times and would be a promising indicator of a change to PR electoral reform, which would also cement greater power for Liberals while opening the path for more social progress for Canadians. I’m not optimistic, but a non-career politician may be more inclined in that direction than most others.

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                All that said, I hope that Carney instead chooses to build consensus.

                As I understand it, that has been how he has operated in his previous roles.

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          Not quite. There’s still enough polls left to report that could lead to a Liberal majority, even if that doesn’t happen (it’s quite unlikely), then current projections are that the NDP will have enough seats to support the minority government, even though the Bloc will hold more seats overall than the NDP.

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      Look, we’ve had the liberals for ten years now. Theyve won 4 elections at this point. It’s amazing they won anything at all this time.

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        Justin fatigue was real. Carney coming in, demolishing the only thing the conservative dingdongs were campaigning about and just being overall a very respectable candidate turned things around. Along with the orange monkey down there.

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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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    I’m happy for you Canada.

    You succeeded where America couldn’t.

    Are y’all accepting asylum for programmers / tech professionals?

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      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.

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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.

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    The big key is gonna be if we get that sweet 172 seats with Lib+Green+NDP, we are only 1 seat short

    If we hit that mark it means, hilariously, the one single green seat is needed to form a majority government without bloc’s help needed

    Which will force liberal party to play ball with NDP and Green Party’s more progressive policies.

    That’s our ideal scenario, conservatives are told to go kick rocks, and green/ndp get an actual voice on decision making to push the country in a progressive direction.

    One. More. Seat!

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      Atm we got it, this is the magic sweet spot where we want to be

      172 seats exactly with lib+ndp+green

      and conservatives can’t even threaten a vote of non confidence with bloc’s help. (1 vote short)

      But they could trigger it with that 1 green seat’s help, which means liberals have to stay on the good side of that 1 green seat XD

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          The 1 seat they got was in the green party stronghold (co leaders home town)

          I have zero clue what her platform is, prolly environmentalist tho.

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            You’re conveniently leaving out the fact that the federal Greens spent the last several years destroying itself through infighting. Remember the leader that was elected to replace the long suffering Elizabeth May who then stole a bunch of money, started a bunch of law suits against the party and then May had to take back over under a joint leadership?

            They’re a novelty party, not a party of governance.

            (I have voted Green several times, but never again in their current arrangement)

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              Sure, but go check what the US Green party is to compare and you’ll realize that the Canadian party isn’t so bad

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                Using “well at least it’s not as bad in America” in these contexts is both dismissive of valid criticism and also a staggeringly low bar

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      Currently it seems like there is a highly improbable but mathematically possible outcome where the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois form a government. Canada gets to be the 51st state and Quebec gets to be the 52nd state. 💀

      Let’s get that last seat! edit: typos

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        Bloc have endorsed the liberals already, Quebec is extremely anti trump.

        Bloc aligning with conservatives would be political suicide lol.

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          That’s why I said highly improbable. But if they became states it would be the end of Canadian politics. It would be all American politics at that point. edit: typo

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            Somehow I don’t see Quebec deciding anything that favors a party that wants everyone to speak English.

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            I don’t think Quebec will recognize Trump’s rule if he takes control of Canada. It may result in some occupier deaths.

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      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.

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      Daddy hasn’t told them what to say yet and these kinds of outlets don’t know how to think for themselves anymore. And at this point it’s pretty much all news outlets based out of the US don’t know what to say without him.

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    Finally something to celebrate in this general vicinity. Congratulations, Canada.

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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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      They are 100% going to say our election was rigged, and our idiots are going to believe them.

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        excerpt of facebook comments Ive seen since last night

        • “this country is a disgrace”
        • " sad day for canada"
        • “fucking rigged!”
        • “west time to become 51st state”
        • “alberta saskatchewan manitoba 51st state of USA!”
        • “time to secede”
        • “trump will save alberta”
        • " insert conspiracy here already picked their candidate, our votes dont count"
        • “time to leave”
        • accusations of Chinese meddling
        • accusaions of European meddling
        • accusations of Globalist meddling
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      I’ll be a little surprised if he addresses it more than a passing comment - the US conservative population doesn’t actually give a shit about canada (unless they’re told to be mad about it for some specific scapegoaty reason, but they’ll just forget. Like they’ve all forgotten about the lumber issues, or eggs, or how ‘canada is killing the US garment industry’ that one was cute…). At this point he’s got enough other things to distract them with, so why waste his very limited attention span on something he’s declared a solved issue?

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        I think it would depend on whether Canada’s new government is willing to play ball. If they’re not willing to kiss Trump’s ass and give America the preferential treatment that he’s trying to extort from the country, there’s going to be more than just a one-off passing comment about it. Probably a woe-is-me “Canada is taking advantage of us” campaign, I reckon.

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    this outcome has less to do with trump’s actions, and more to do with how the conservatives behaved in spite of those actions.

    I think enough people were like me, ready to vote conservative, but then lost faith in the party since they didnt really seem to have a plan on anything once trudeau was gone early. Pollievre’s stock tanked once people saw that Trudeau was gone, and what was happening in the world

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      Genuine question, what initially led you to wanting to vote conservative and what could they have run on for you to have stuck with then?

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      Explain how they gained more seats then.

      The conservatives barely lost because the progressives and the BQ voters cut their legs off to hoist up the liberals.

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        We’ll see if the liberals take Quebec for granted like NDP did after Layton.

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          That’ll be important. We’ll also see how Canadians react to the atrocities the USA will commit in the next 4 years too however.

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    Honestley, I was going to vote conservative, even after Trump. And then Pollievre went into third gear with Woke Derangement Syndrome, the guy was having unhinged rants. Couldn’t get a paragraph out without mentioning woke. Ask him to define it, and he’d either PP.EXE stop responding, or he’d fly off the handle with pre-programmed slogans.

    Stupid people on both sides of the race. But that was what turned me.

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        the last 4 elections I’d voted L > C > C > L

        Im a moderate. I thought that the Trudeau Liberals had gone too far left back during the Scheer and Otoole days. Come this time around, I just lost any confidence I had in the Conservative party because they built their identity on “we’re not the liberals”. and failed to convince me they werent just going to kowtow to American Corpo-Fascist interests.

        But if you would have asked me about specific policies that irked me to turn Conservative during the past … its been a long time, I’d probably just point to specific times and incidents over the gun policy, immigration, corruption with the SNC lavalin scandal, and maybe foreign policy. I live in a very ignorant and uneducated town in a NS riding that had been pretty hardcore conservative the last 2-3 elections, and my peers probably played a hand in influencing my issues. I thought our riding was solidly going to remain Conservative, CTV projected Cons won, but several hours later they reversed it and Libs have apparentley won it.

        Foreign Policy has always been a major “issue” of mine too, Until 2025 when we were faced with the nonzero possibility of actual aggression and conflict with America, the biggest thing that would influence my vote was how seriously the party was going to take the issue of us being more or less, de-facto at war with Russia, Because the “shadow” World War III is something that in my mind took precedent.

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      Conservatives made significant inroads, lots of people in Ontario and Atlantic Canada that heard and liked the anti-woke messaging. I don’t know how to bring these people around, and am frightened that there are so many of them. Over 40% of the popular vote.