Consequences of 2025

[dewline]

We held our noses, gritted our teeth and made a choice we're not comfortable with. And yeah, we still need a minority government. If we can't have that, then we need to make our place in this clear. Not have it retroactively defined for us.

Comments

[batdina]

congrats on the mostly least bad outcome.

[dewline]

I may have put my thoughts online too soon.

[batdina]

Damn. I hope that's not the case. The NYTimes thinks the Libs won. Doesn't mean they're right.

[sabotabby]

It's looking okay this morning??

[dewline]

Yes, it does.

Poilievre losing his own seat hasn't hurt the situation. I do wish he would fade away, though.

[ioplokon]

If I were Doug Ford, I would be showing that Financial Times graph about historic anti-incumbent voting trends in 2024 to every politician, operative, and journalist I know. Not hard to communicate the idea that fundamentals shielded the Conservatives from huge losses but overall PP is a bungler who lost them the election.

[spiralsheep]

"Poilievre losing his own seat"

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[dewline]

That was a nice bit of good news.

[ioplokon]

Ok, but an LPC + BQ coalition with PP losing his seat would be a funny outcome, if nothing else.

[dewline]

And that may yet happen.

[princessofgeeks]

Hoping for the best.

[kathleen_dailey]

[G]ritted our teeth

Pun intended, I'm sure!

What I learned during a mostly sleepless night: Carney has a seat, Poilievre doesn't, thank goodness. Singh, who also lost his seat, is stepping down from his leadership role as the NDP loses its official party status.

The CBC said that Singh "struggled to keep his emotions in check." I'm doing the same.

[dewline]

Same here.

Pun was not intended, and I choose to live with it being said anyway.

[arlie]

I'm long away from Canadian politics, but back when I still lived there I favored the NDP, and am sorry to see them doing badly, particularly to the benefit of the Bloc Quebecois. Of course if you ignore the BQ's separatist stance, and (presumed by me) pro-french, anti-english tendencies, they have similar beliefs and policies. But I can't ignore those; I was born and raised in Quebec, as were both my parents - all of us English speaking.

I'm still holding a grudge about repatriation of the Canadian constitution, when the interests of people like me were sacrificed to the worthy goal of keeping Quebec in the confederation. Life in Quebec became impossible, and I moved away from home when francization and other important policies tanked the Montreal economy enough that I found myself out of work.

I pretty much considered myself a displaced person, or perhaps a digital nomad, for the next several decades, but eventually wound up staying in one place long enough to develop similar feelings of "home". That place is not, however, in Canada. So my life would have been very different without the maudit pequistes, and their appeasement by the rest of the country.