Author: Blazingcatfur

Remember last month when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Rideau Hall and asked Governor General Mary Simon to issue the writs for Monday’s election?

When he emerged from his 40-minute chat with the GG, Trudeau said this would be the “most important” election since the end of the Second World War. It would be “historic,” “consequential.”

It cost $610 million for Canadians to show Justin Trudeau that a national pandemic is no time to call an election.

The Liberal line in forcing Monday’s vote was that, with big decisions lying ahead, Canadians deserved a say in their future. Even though voters had made clear their view in 2019 when they reduced the Liberals to a minority government, Trudeau wanted to hear it again. So voters repeated themselves. After 36 days of campaigning — much of it ugly, divisive and demeaning — voters returned a Parliament that will be almost identical to the one Trudeau discarded. They’ll have to build a lot of windmills to make up for the emissions wasted on this baby.

‘Greater Trudeau Area’ again painted in Liberal red Across the Toronto area, as defined by Elections Canada, the Liberals gained 48.8% of the votes cast and the Conservatives 31.5%.

The 416 and 905 remain the Greater Trudeau Area.

Unofficial Elections Canada results show Justin Trudeau’s Liberals with 48 seats in the Toronto area — with an asterisk in Spadina-Fort-York — to the Conservatives’ five, which includes Leader Erin O’Toole’s Durham riding.