Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result
Conservatives win longtime Liberal stronghold Toronto-St. Paul's in shock byelection result
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Well that is going to be bad for everyone. Looks like we're headed back to science denial, tax credits for the rich, program cancellations for the poor, a weak fed that ignores the marginalized, bitcoin for some reason, deregulation, attacks on democracy, and just a general attitude of government by bumper sticker skeleton middle finger.
I remember when PP was in government, they weren't good days, but I guess Trudeau has been in for so long that the list of true and imagined grievances is going to sink him and the rest of us with him.
Don't forget increased intentionally fucking over BC.
• Harper and PPs complete capitulation on the softwood lumber agreement to the US, multiple times decimated rural BC.
• They moved harbour control for the 2nd busiest port on the west coast of the Americas, out of Vancouver and have them remotely operating out of Comox.
• They illegally forced the TMX expansion pipeline through, and overrode concerns of the city of Hope that the new line runs over their watershed and they ignored native issues with the pipeline. Note that it doesn't run over Nestles well. They moved the line for fucking Nestle, not a city of people though.
• They shut down the coast guard facility for the Vancouver harbor and forced them to operate out of Richmond. So in the recent issue of a boat running into a seaplane, where the coast guard took under 10 minutes to respond, if Trudeau had not repurchased and opened the facility, their response time would have been in the range of 40 minutes to an hour.
Not to mention a return to "balancing" the budget by selling off assets to developer friends and scandals like taking the G8 security budget and using it for graft and bribery in your own ridings.
BC doesn't exist, as far as the Cons are concerned. Western Canada is Alberta (and sometimes Saskatchewan), and Eastern Canada is Ontario.
No, Saskatchewan also doesn't exist. We get very little from the feds, for two reasons:
- We never vote Liberal, so they do little to earn our vote.
- We always seem to vote Conservative, so they do little to earn our vote.
When good things happen it's because of a unicorn like Ralph Goodale. The NDP could have a fighting chance for a few seats here, but they need to actually campaign and realise that they're #2 in nearly every riding in the province.
There was a time when Saskatchewan was soley led by the CCF/NDP for 20 years straight (beginning with the father of universal health care, Tommy Douglas, in '44), then 8 yrs of PCs, then Blakeney (NDP) for another 9 years.
Yup, all true, but even then Saskatchewan largely voted PC federally. Very strange political mix.
Don't forget Harper selling the Wheat Board to Bunge Limited and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company, so profits were privatized instead of being shared by all the farmers.
Wait till you realize that not only is PP bad, but so is Trudeau and Singh. And please don't mention Maxime. That guy is a anti-vax nutjob.
What we do realize is that this "both sides" bullshit is the biggest thing pushed by Russian spammers right now, because their goal is to elect someone better for Putin.
But carry on.
It has to do with scale.
PP is exponentially worse than Trudeau and Jasmeet. Yes, neither of those two silver spoon assed motherfuckers worked a day in their life for where they are and combined can't lead their way out of a wet paper bag, but I'll take them over the mentally ill religious zealot.
I'll take slightly curdling milk in my cereal over piss, thanks.
Perhaps the NDP shouldn't have hitched their horse to the Liberal bandwagon. The fact that they're showing so poorly is just as mind boggling as the Liberals losing this seat.
I'm happy the NDP has worked with the LPC over this last parliament. Together they've made a number of significant policy changes that I am quite happy with.
The orange steering the reds hand over fist has given us things you will never realize if you don't actually look at things ever.
Like what? Half baked drug and dental plans that barely anyone is eligible is for?
Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.
Singh never had a prime.
Dude moved himself into one of the safest NDP ridings in the country and still almost lost it.