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[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The NDP had 9 years to press the promise of PR and did nothing. Fuck em. I hope they lose party status.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

PR is a non-starter for the liberals, their party would completely disappear if they passed it. That's why they sabotaged/killed it even though they promised last time.

The NDP couldn't push it through even if they wanted, all it would have done is forced an election into the Conservatives.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This. PR is a death knell for the bigger parties and they'll fight it. Maybe. Mayyyybe that can be pushed for RCV. But I think Mr Singh didn't have the poker hand for that and needed to play for dental framework instead. Continuing on that would have been great, but he overplayed his hand as it was and set Justin on the election course.

This time, if Mark wins the big bag and runs majority, we'll see lots of minor improvements but nothing glamorous: his people will keep any big gains in the war chest and/or spent immediately on an independent euro-connected peacekeeper force.

We're gonna see real estate shenanigans, though, same as cons, with bungalow boondoggles and sprawl for quick cheap housing to satisfy the numbers, and it'll be a long time before we can claw ourselves farther away from the same Muni economic brink that Detroit fell over with its unsustainable bungalow sprawl. But keep in mind almost no one has a good plan to get good, dense, walkable mixed-use tower housing linked to trains because that's a project with excellent returns at a pace too slow for the protestors. If Mark does anything foundational for that it'll be noise amid the effort to placate the short-thinkers and stay in power for a better term next time.

We're gonna see a lot of younger voters looking for the whizbang change the cons offer, not understanding the whole story, the motivations, and the history of every other time we got onboard there. Harper.

But if we can get steady gains, if we can improve ancillary healthcare coverage like the last term, if we can start the ground work for RCV which is more appealing to the incumbent giants, then we could see that in 5 years as a hard promise.

In those 5 years we need to teach kids what "the whole truth" looked like under Mr Harper and see whether they like the side of the box with the nutrient value - mmm, riboflavin - as much as the front of the box with the splashy graphics the offer of the free prize inside.

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[–] dihkbozo@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Here's the two main poll aggregator's per-riding projections for all of those considering voting strategically:

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[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

I wonder if the election will be over as soon as the polls close in Ontario.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

Quebec and Ontario

An often noted oddity of the Canadian population is to draw a horizontal line at Windsor Ontario and a vertical line at Huntsville Ontario .... everything south and east of that line is 90% of the Canadian population.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I recall in 2015 that when Atlantic Canada went solid red that was enough to show that the Liberals won entirely and the rest was just waiting the night out.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Canadians, what's the deal with "official party status"? I gather from the CBC that you need 12 seats to achieve it, but what does it actually do, what's the reasoning behind it, and do people generally like this system?

For context, here in Australia party status is decided pre-election, and only requires you have 1500 active members, or at least 1 incumbent. To my knowledge the only thing it gives you here is more flexibility with respect to campaign financing.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's time allotment in the HoC and money for staff, research, etc. Not much more.

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[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, the Greens were able to keep a seat, so there's that.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I appreciate Jason Kenney calling out maga North and The People’s Party.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This Liberal woman CBC has just finished talking to both looks and speaks an awful lot like Leslie Knope from Parks & Rec.

(This is not a bad thing.)

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[–] macncheese@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Lurking American here. Curious who you think will win in your gut? I understand we won't really know until results are counted. A couple of stories covered by American media (one definitely liberal leaning) I've read and listened to seems to think because of the odiousness of our president, liberals may take it? Do you think that's likely?

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

God bless Labrador.

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