The People’s Party of Canada, which grew in popularity over the campaign, riding a wave of protests against vaccine and lockdown policies, picked up tens of thousands of votes nationally in Monday’s federal election.
Gut it out. One day all of our dreams will come true.
A record low voter turnout? Seems so.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s projected victory in Canada’s 2021 federal election gives him another chance to fulfil the promise of a $10-a-day child-care system and take a shot at taming the country’s housing woes.
Trudeau is now projected to continue on as Canada’s prime minister, although at the head of a minority government and with an electoral result very close to that of the 2019 federal vote.
We’re all gonna be poorer, well not all of us. The political and corporate class will grow fat on our blood.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole steered his party back toward the ideological centre of Canadian politics in 2021 and made this shift a key selling point during the five-week election campaign.
But it was not enough to win Canada’s 44th general election as Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will form the next government.
While Mr. O’Toole’s restyling of the Conservatives resulted in few gains, with projections of only a handful of extra seats at most, his party did hold Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals to another minority government.
What is there to say?
I voted PPC.
The party formerly called Conservative is now remade as a centre-left ersatz alternative to the Liberal Party proving O’Toole is a successful leader, just not a conservative one.
They should rebrand and remove “conservative” from the party name. Clearly the brain trust believes O’Toole and their newly scrubbed ideology to be the party’s future so they may as well ride that pony into the sunset. Given the CPC’s knack for shooting themselves in the foot I’m sure they could find an even worse replacement so what’s the point of even trying. Sphincter relaxant all round!
The PPC increased it’s vote share while winning no seats. They have I hope the determination to stay the course.
Alberta should give serious consideration to leaving as the ex-Conservative party cannot help them. Either that or we nuke Toronto and Montreal. We should probably do that anyway come to think of it.
The predator class won, we lost. No more need be said.
Many are calling for O’Toole’s head on Twitter. They best learn to live with him or find another political home. The CPC is no more.
O'Toole ended up losing seats after swinging hard-left.
He made no gains and badly divided the CPC.
He should resign. Immediately.
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) September 21, 2021
Alas my prediction came to be. The result will be a second LPC government.
I see no reason for a Conservative party leadership review of Erin O’Toole’s tenure. O’Toole was successful in turning the CPC centre left and championing the widespread availability of sphincter relaxant. Mission accomplished.
LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE
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… And no, I am not back-ending this column into a pro-Erin-O’Toole manifesto (it’s too late for that, anyway). Historically, the Conservatives have recruited much of their young talent from the ranks of right-leaning business owners, activists, lawyers and community leaders. But the post-Harper years have marked what is basically a steady renunciation of almost every identifiably conservative idea or principle that might be seized upon as grist for aforesaid Liberal (and media) demagoguery.
Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to call a snap election to improve his parliamentary standing.
It was a contest no one wanted (or expected) and the move seems to have backfired spectacularly. Hectored by anti-vaxxers, lambasted for his COVID record and lampooned as ‘UnCanadian’ for calling a contest in a pandemic, Trudeau is hoping to preserve his current number of seats, let alone dream of increasing it.
I hope you can join us for our live Election Night Show tonight at 8:30pm ET / 5:30pm PT on www.tnc.news.
We’ll be discussing the results as they come in, welcoming a number of special guests and we’ll also have reporters in Toronto and Saskatoon at the Conservative Party and PPC’s victory parties.
Unlike the legacy media, we won’t be discussing how fancy Trudeau’s socks are or pushing leftist pet causes on you. Instead, we’ll be focussing on the issues that matter to Canadians.
Canadians deserve extensive coverage of election night, and that’s exactly what we’re striving to do tonight.
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A craven political culture could swing the election for Canada’s prime minister
… Now, as Canada enters the final days of its third federal election in six years, there is no more of that. It’s hard to say when Mr Trudeau went from international golden boy to punch-line to an unfunny joke: was it the novelty socks? Was it his fancy dress-wearing and terrorist-hosting trip to India? Was it the blackface? Was it his groping of a woman? Was it him dressing down a woman who had said “mankind” instead of “peoplekind”?
And those are only the scandals the rest of the world cared about.
Poilievre has connected over-spending & money printing to the surging cost of living, a message that needs to be heard in an era when spending is out of control.
According to an ideology of self-hatred, Canadians must loathe our society. We must together hang our heads in shame as we weep over the history of our nation. Repeat after Jagmeet Singh: “we are a racist, bigoted, homophobic and xenophobic society.”
The People’s Party of Canada reject this vision. Therefore, they are to spend every living moment in the media doghouse. They are right-wing bigots. They hate “racialized” Canadians. They are but one goose-step removed from 20th Century Fascist Europe.
With growing western alienation and the oil and gas sector in decline under Justin Trudeau, the Maverick Party — formerly Wexit Canada — is seeking to put the western agenda front and centre as the Bloc Québécois has for Quebec. Maverick interim leader Jay Hill joined The Andrew Lawton Show to explain.
Since 2019, Trudeau has only commanded a minority in parliament, leaving him dependent on other parties to govern. Trudeau argues the pandemic has changed Canada like World War Two did and Canadians should now choose who they want to make important decisions for decades to come.
Trudeau overlooked the volcano of frustration, fear and, yes, hate that would erupt by thrusting the nation into weeks of campaign rhetoric and resurfaced wedge issues.
This election is not really about choosing a government. We’re going to have a weak minority government anyway.
It’s about voting for a strong opposition. And only the PPC can play that role. #VotePPC2021 #PurpleWave
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 18, 2021
While there are still many people who are in denial about the momentousness of this current moment we’re living through, Trudeau clearly realizes we are at a historical inflection point. And he wishes to seize the moment.
