Election 2025

Voters stayed home in these ridings that saw photo finishes in 2021. Will it be close again this time?

One of the reasons often cited for voter apathy is a sense that one’s vote doesn’t make a difference. But insights gleaned from Canada’s last election tell a different story and indicate that in some cases, every vote really does count.

Voter turnout stood at 62.6 per cent in Canada’s last federal election in September 2021. That represented about 17.2 million of Canada’s 27.5 million eligible voters at the time.

To better understand how and where low voter turnout made a difference, Environics Analytics looked at eight ridings across the country where there was both low voter turnout and a very close race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

WAPO invites you to meet the Conservative populist looking to unseat Canada’s Liberals

TORONTO — On a bright early spring evening, a queue of Canadian rallygoers snaked through a hotel lobby and around the block. Some had waited in the cold for an hour. Cars jammed roads and parking lots. So many people had shown up that the venue could not accommodate them all.

Inside the hotel ballroom, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre served up a polished 35-minute set of the classics, kicking off his bid for prime minister. He assailed a “radical, borderless, globalist ideology” and “net-zero environmental extremism.” He promised a “big, patriotic, bold and beautiful” tax cut and to stop “crime, chaos and disorder.”

Mainstreet has the Cons ahead again …

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

Banks and business are talking sense on climate at last. But it must not be just talk

Coal in Carney’s China

The Davos elites must not be permitted to shift from green-washing to ‘green-hushing’

After years of bragging about their climate policies, multinational businesses and international organisations are now going silent about their sustainability goals. They are no longer green-washing but “green-hushing”. Yet, green targets are bad for business and a terrible way to help the world. These actors shouldn’t just be quieter about them. They should stop this waste.

Perhaps the most blatantly self-defeating attempt to go green was by the fossil fuel industry. Back in 2020, BP made the extraordinary promise to slash oil and gas production by 40 per cent by 2030, boost renewable energy generation twentyfold, and even become a net-zero energy company. Since then, it has performed the worst among big oil, and two CEOs later, BP has now abandoned its green promises and recommitted to fossil fuel. Other big western oil companies are also returning to their roots – while state-owned oil giants like Saudi Aramco, Sinopec, Petrobras and Rosneft never made dramatic green promises in the first place.

More … 4 of Canada’s biggest banks leave Mark Carney-led climate initiative

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Election 2025

KLEIN: Beware: The next Liberal tax may be on the roof over your head

There’s a hard truth that Canadians need to wake up to, especially homeowners: The government is broke.

The numbers don’t lie. Federal debt has more than doubled since 2015, climbing past $1.2 trillion. Interest payments on that debt are now larger than what Ottawa spends on health care transfers to the provinces. They’ve run out of room to borrow without consequences. They’ve run out of excuses, and now, they’re running out of people to tax — except you.

If you own a home, particularly if it’s paid off, congratulations. You’re about to become the government’s next target.

Interesting that the people most likely to vote for Carney are home owners hoping to protect their equity by continuing the housing shortage caused by Liberal party mass immigration policy.

And now they find that their hard won gains may be stolen by their savior Carney.

As they say: Be careful what you wish for.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

J.D. Tuccille: Canada, a shining example to the world of how to kill prosperity

Among U.S. states, New Mexico is the only one to end the last four decades less economically free than it began, finds a recent report. Even worse, binding its residents in red tape and smothering them in government leaves its residents poorer. Sadly, even as a laggard that’s moving in the wrong direction on economic freedom, New Mexico still allows its residents more leeway when it comes to business, money, and property than all but two Canadian provinces. And its people, while poor relative to many Americans, are more prosperous than the residents of most Canadian provinces.

Carney will be Justin but worse.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

How about sending them home?

These immigrants say Canada failed to plan for a population explosion. Now it’s their top election issue

Joana Valamootoo felt Canada was a welcoming place when she immigrated here from Mauritius in 2012, but that sense has faded in recent years as immigration numbers have gone up and up.

“I came here in 2012 on a francophone initiative program, an immigration program, and I was welcome, but I was also provided what I needed to succeed here,” she said.

She believes that’s no longer the case for newcomers to the country.

Bad news immigrants, there has been no intake slowdown. 

Carney and his predator pal Wiseman plan on swamping Canada with even more incompatible cultures.

But we know most of you will vote Liberal anyway, you wouldn’t be here otherwise.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Is Canada Brain-Dead?

As we survey the political landscape today, it is hard to escape the conclusion that a plague of mental catalepsy has swept the globe. One recalls the old multi-attributed adage: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Clearly, being rendered stupid would be just as effective.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

LILLEY: Mark Carney’s spending plans make Justin Trudeau look like a tightfisted miser

Mark Carney’s spending plans, released in his Liberal campaign platform, make Justin Trudeau look like a tightfisted miser.

The plans Carney released Saturday, would see the federal government dramatically increase spending and add a further $130 billion in deficit spending over four years.

Carney will bankrupt Canada then sell off the assets for a song to his cronies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Lorne Gunter: Poll shows fear a major motivator steering Canada toward disastrous fourth Liberal term

This week, Postmedia and the pollsters Leger released the most disturbing poll of the federal campaign so far.

No, not one showing the Liberals under Mark Carney with a double-digit lead. I never believed those polls anyway.

I believe the Liberals are ahead, for now. And so long as the Liberals can keep distracting voters from their atrocious record of the past 10 years and keep focusing on Donald Trump’s tariff and annexation threats, they will tragically stay in the lead until April 28.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Freed: Canada’s federal election is a classic western movie showdown

Welcome to Carneymania, the biggest political rage since the (Pierre) Trudeaumania of my youth. Only months ago the Liberal party was so far behind the Conservatives you couldn’t see them in the rear-view mirror.

Now Carney leads by several points in the polls in the most staggering turnaround in Canadian political memory. But he owes it all to one person who has been campaigning furiously for him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Conrad Black: Liberals, not Trump, are the true threat to Canadian sovereignty

With only a little over a week to go before the federal election, and with the debates out of the way, the wheels of the Liberal campaign for a fourth-straight term are finally starting to wobble on their axles. The providential political fantasy land in which the Liberals launched the campaign — the complete fraud that Canada’s continued existence was being threatened by the United States — has receded. U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior colleagues are now processing a queue of 130 countries filing into Washington offering concessions to contribute towards the elimination of the completely unnecessary United States trade deficit of around $1 trillion. Another resounding Trump victory is in the making and Canada is not an inordinately large part of it, although there will be challenging negotiations.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Carney Says China Presents Major Foreign Interference Threat to Canada

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says China poses one of the biggest foreign interference threats to Canada.

Carney made the remarks at a campaign stop in Niagara Falls on April 18.

The Liberal leader had been asked by a reporter to expand on his comments at the English-language leaders debate on April 17, where Carney said China is the “biggest security threat” facing Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Sliding in the polls, Jagmeet Singh fights to be heard as voters abandon the NDP

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh took a deep breath.

Hours before, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister and Singh’s former governing ally, had rocked the country by announcing his intention to resign.

With a crucial election now on the horizon, it was the NDP’s last chance to distance itself from Trudeau’s unpopularity and its association with the Liberal government — and position itself for success in the coming race.

“Justin Trudeau’s Liberals,” he started in a forceful voice before pausing, “have let down Canadians.”

He wanted that pension so badly he destroyed his own party by supporting the Liberals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025, NDP

GOLDSTEIN: How mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s election promise to use the constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on those who commit multiple murders has prompted predictable outrage from Canada’s chattering classes.

Ditto his promise of a “three-strikes-and-you’re-out law,” which would deny criminals convicted of three serious offences bail, probation, parole or house arrest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", "Law and Order", Conservative Party, Election 2025