@seanb

Hmm.

So, what happens if M Poilievre is rejected in this riding? Does it mean M Scheer will remain 'interim' leader until the next federal election?

Doesn't this sound like skipping the party leadership race, in that case? The sorta backroom insider thing M Harper has been doing since killing off the Progressive Conservatives as a party?

There are plenty of progressive conservatives. They just do not have a party to represent them, other than the #LPC.

@Geoffberner @dmacphee

This 100%. And the way to win is NOT by moving right, it’s by being progressive.

"PP is on track to win the next election if the Liberals can't find a way to provide homes for people and lower the cost of living. They also have to confront the unregulated right wing lies proliferating on the internet. If the Liberals can't deliver, and soon, PP is a sure bet to win the next one.”

It's interesting that we were all expecting a Liberal majority, given the polls prior to the election.

One thing that was correctly predicted was the collapse of the NDP. I still voted for them, since I feel their policy offerings were the best of the lot, but no denying they collapsed. Bloc & Green votes also shrank, leading to the 2-party result of LPC centre right vs CPC right wing.

Quite a choice: tax cuts & austerity & pipelines vs tax cuts & austerity & pipelines.

The CPC did better than was expected. Ultimately, if we don't adopt a more proportional system, they will win unfettered power with a false majority at some point in the future (likely next election). Basically we're following the same path as the USA.

That said, I saw Fair Vote's call for the NDP MPs to make PR a condition of support. I might have sympathy for Fair Vote's call if they had endorsed the NDP during the election, since the NDP did commit to PR in the last election. But Fair Vote didn't. So to now set the stage for further derision of the NDP by making a hugely impractical demand strikes me as a bit much (and I am a paid supporter of Fair Vote).

@NorthernlightsMB @ewen

It was a majority, of the long long historic dance of rhe Liberals/NDP.

All of Canada's best governments are Liberal NDP and have been since Canada got a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the US and Britain invading Egypt to get the Suez Canal.

The same "majority" that gave Canada Universal HealthCare.

Its a proud majority. And will be for decades. Work for it, it works for us.

@Poli_Tics

What strong argument for proportional representation. I hope Liberal leadership stops being smug and arrogant, hoping for majorities from 35 and 40% of the vote.

Proportional voting would produce progressive majorities every vote. But you'd have to negotiate with the greens and NDP.

And it wouldnt hurt the liberal.party. its percentage of the vote would rise and fall but progressives stay in power, racists excluded.

@bjornqc @thomasembree

Proportional representation is best. Not merger.

It would be a democratic gift, a boon to democracy, a bulwark against tyranny should Prime Minister Carney introduce the Parliamentary law already written and approved in consultation and Parliamentary Committee as an election victory step forward.

@kevinrns Now, w/o the hateful spammer ... :)

Yes, I think that a lot of good has come from the last few years of the #LPC / #NDP working together. Unfortunately, despite that he is a good leader and advocate, I don't think Jagmeet will be the federal NDP leader by August. The NDP are going to be, wrongly, wiped out in this election. And someone is going to have to take the blame for that.
None of which should diminish the positive legacy that Jagmeet has left on the country.

@bascule @blogdiva #LPC making that same shift and it’s…working?
Albeit, different circumstances. #CdnPoli #CdnElxn2025

@jarek

Vote #NDP in every riding, the ONLY outcome is a larger NDP in a minority or majority Liberal Government.