• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    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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      5 hours ago

      It’s after a full decade of Liberal rule. Do you know how hard it is to win after that long being blamed for everyone’s problems? THis is huge.

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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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      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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      12 hours ago

      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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        11 hours ago

        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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            Too close from whose perspective?

            The liberals had no business winning this election. All metrics pointed to a conservwtive land slide until Trump got involved and Carney seemingly handled him better than Trudeau.

            Carney is going to have to perform above average in his first term otherwise the liberals will be absolutely decimated in 4 years.

            This is borrowed time. Even an average performance now will guarantee Poilievre a win in 4 years. The Liberals are going to have to get more done in 4 years than they have in the past 10 to prevent that.

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              3 hours ago

              Mine,

              Conservatives policies aren’t beneficial for the average Canadian. 40% of people voting against, their, and my best interests is not something I like. The cons and pp don’t care about climate change. That affects all of us,they want more American style Healthcare, that affects all of us. They want to lower taxes, great! Where do they get the money to do that? By cutting our services.

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            Considering the massive lead the conservatives once had it isn’t really ‘that’ close. Liberal gains were astonishing once Carney entered the ring.

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              40%+ of voters still went for pp. That’s too high, and with our shitty fptp, it made it worse

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                I don’t know thats its too high especially of it was going to be much more than that if not for Trump’s threats, Trudeau’s resignation and Carney’s ascension.

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          It was mostly Trump. Americans polls did something similar after 9/11. The candidates involved just put it over the top.

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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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        11 hours ago

        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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          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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          11 hours ago

          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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              Or a more formal agreement. I’ve heard some complaining about not having any NDP ministers, but I don’t know if that’s mainstream.

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

              Eh, it sounds like the Bloc really wants a rematch. Now’s not the time to risk that.

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                it sounds like the Bloc really wants a rematch.

                I doubt they’ll try to topple the government until the threat of Trump is neutralized. Or at least significantly muted. They have a common goal with the rest of the country on that issue.

                Plus, what’s their warchest look like at the moment?

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                  Yeah, I don’t know for sure. I was going off of what Chantal said on CBC, but the again she though the last government would be short lived, too.