This election was a $600-million waste of time, thanks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Like promises of clean water for Indigenous people, tree-planting and timely vaccines, this vote was another botched initiative by Trudeau. His failure to reach his goal of getting a majority is another example of his modus operandi, which is to concoct policies and initiatives that are unjustified, unformulated, unfunded and, in the end, go unfulfilled.
The results of the recent and utterly unnecessary Canadian election, called two years before the expiry of a four-year term and returning Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to the same minority government status as before, were not unexpected. Indeed, they were graven in stone—a tombstone, I’m tempted to say.
The Conservatives’ third defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals should be considered a rebuke of the party’s strategy to tack hard towards the so-called centre. It definitely shouldn’t mean that the party should try even harder to moderate itself, as leader Erin O’Toole suggested in his concession speech. Instead, the lesson the Conservatives should learn from this loss is that they’d be better off selling their own ideas to voters, rather than watered-down Liberal, or even NDP, policies.
Fearless prediction – O’Toole will remain CPC leader and no material changes will be made to the centre-left program. I suspect the ‘brain trust’ regards the election result as proof of concept that a permanent leftward shift is a viable path to power. Anyone who disagrees will be welcome to lump it or leave it as the party casts its net for disgruntled Liberals. O’Toole talks of outreach to those who have walked away from the CPC. Frankly given his record of flip flops I would not trust him.
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.”
TORONTO — While Canadians didn’t have to wait too long on election night to find out who will lead the next government, there are still several individual seats too close to call and it could take a few days to get clear results with many mail-in ballots still to be counted.
As of Tuesday evening, 18 seats had yet to be called, according to CTVNews.ca’s election tracker, with the Liberals leading in nine of the races, the Conservatives leading in two, the Bloc Quebecois leading four and the NDP in three.
This has been floating around Twitter. Had people not voted Conservative the PPC could have picked up a few seats.
Vote splitting elected couple of dozen seats mostly liberal pic.twitter.com/zJGqNCjTuO
— Inky Mark (@inky_mark) September 21, 2021
Many older voters, parents with young children and Canadians with disabilities didn’t vote on Monday because they couldn’t wait in long lineups at their voting sites. Elections Canada has apologized but said there was little else they could do given COVID-19 restrictions.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed in his bid to win a Liberal majority government after a low-energy campaign in the middle of the pandemic, and party insiders see an increasing chance he will step down before the next vote.
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.
Canada’s PM isn’t a politician in any meaningful sense – he’s Tumblr made flesh.
Are there any photos of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau where he isn’t in blackface? I’m struggling to remember the last time I saw one. There he was again yesterday, this wokest of world leaders, this darling of centrist Twitter, covered in black facepaint and sticking his tongue out. You know, like those dark-skinned foreigners do. The pic is from an Arabian Nights fancy-dress party – man, the bourgeoisie are weird – that Trudeau attended in 2001, when he was 29. Twenty-nine. If you’re on the cusp of 30, at the dawn of this new millennium, and you still don’t know it’s wrong to don blackface, there’s something wrong with you.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says he’s triggered a review looking into his party’s election loss, underscoring that he’s committed to making sure the Tories are battle-ready for the next one.
O’Toole appeared at his party’s broadcast studio in downtown Ottawa striking a less spirited tone than during his speech early Tuesday after the election results first came in.
…The Conservative leader did say the party came within 2,000 votes in 30 ridings and will work to close that gap.
Don Martin: Sooner or later in this status quo mandate, Justin Trudeau will take his walk in the snow
OTTAWA — It might take a year or longer before it becomes clear to him, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will eventually realize he’s finished.
The freeze-framed results of last night’s pandemic election are just too much of a stain on his mediocre record to allow him to fight the next one.
Justin is far to self-obsessed to resign.
Soul food via Marc.
After calling an early election, as is his kingly right, Justin Trudeau appears to have narrowly carried enough votes in yesterday’s election to secure another term as Sultan of Canada.
“Bring my camel, bring my scimitar!” laughed Trudeau as he carefully applied blackface. “I told everyone the genie had guaranteed a win! Oh man, this never gets old. We’re having a massive victory party tonight, I’m bringing in some elephants, belly dancers, my entire harem, the whole shebang. Or the whole he-bang…or, um, people-bang. Nevermind.”
Preliminary data from Canada’s pandemic election is showing a low voter turnout, sparking conversations among experts around its impact on the country’s democracy.
As of Tuesday morning with 98 per cent of polls reporting, 15,993,868 of 27,366,297 registered electors showed up to vote — a turnout rate of 58.4 per cent so far.
I recall a poll that found a sizable chunk of those surveyed say they were unimpressed with all the mainstream parties. That’s not mentioned in the article.
… To the surprise and disappointment of many inside the party, including many of his own MPs, Mr. O’Toole did a complete 180 on a carbon tax, saying he would bring one in as prime minister. This would be the same carbon tax that Conservatives had spent the past few years vehemently fighting against. The same carbon tax that Conservative MPs such as Michelle Rempel Garner called a job killer and bourgeois public policy.
But Mr. O’Toole felt that if the Conservatives were ever going to be taken seriously on climate change he had to back a public policy measure that is almost universally considered the best way of changing public behaviour.
That decision was the headliner among his many moves to present a kinder, gentler, more modern-looking Conservative Party to the country. A version that many Conservatives, especially in the West – the party’s heartland – want no part of.
Nah, he’ll stick around. The base will be forced out.
