The Maple Leaf Lounge

Marc said:

must be conservative or ndp then

The CBC has predicted a liberal win.

as I type this the libs are leading or have won in 133 ridings with 50% of the vote.

the liberals lost a some ridings in New Foundland & Labrador (338 had predicted a sweep).

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Very glad to be wrong.

Glad for a Liberal win.

Hoping PP loses his seat, but I suppose that might be too much to hope for. It would be such delicious karma if he did.

Disappointed in the NDP. They probably won't hold onto official party status, and... oh, crap. Singh's lost his seat. Well, looks like he'll be resigning the leadership.

Too bad it's probably not possible to convince Charlie Angus to un-retire. But he's been having a blast with his Resistance tour, and has been appearing frequently on the Meidas Touch Network on YouTube.

I voted Green, btw. Given how insanely dug-in the CPC cult is here, there's no way that any other party could get anywhere near. So when I looked at the non-CPC candidates, I found out that the Liberals and NDP hadn't even bothered to post any information about themselves. That tells me that the candidates were merely placeholders. The Green candidate had a writeup in one of the local media outlets, and while he'd have made an excellent NDP candidate in a provincial election, I decided to vote for him. He's familiar with the kinds of issues that matter to me, and would stand up for people in my demographic.

Massive fail by poilievre
Not only losing the election but his ow riding looks likely to reject him.

Timewalker said:

Hoping PP loses his seat, but I suppose that might be too much to hope for. It would be such delicious karma if he did

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He was losing when I went to bed, but only two polls had reported in so I wasn't very optimistic that the trend would continue. I was very happy to be proven wrong when I woke up this morning.

And on top of that my MP is the Prime Minster!

well our unloved MP was shown the door after a single term with massive (54% of the vote) win by the liberal candidate.

poilievre says he's going to stay on as leader which is going to be interest - he could ask steven del duca or bonnie crombie (have to check if she's still the provincal liberal leader) about the challenges of leading when you don't have a seat in the legislature.

and I don't think anyone who's just been re-elected will be looking to jump ship to provide him with a safe riding anytime soon.

If it's a minority govt then he might have chance but a majority nah.

The post election review is going to be blood bath and poilievre and his campaign director taking the brunt - everything was geared to attack trudeau and the carbon tax but both were gone and they just couldn't pivot.

plus the very negative "it's the end of Canada if the liberals are re-elected" wouldn't have helped.

I was just made aware of this tweet.

Voting took me ten minutes at my polling station here in Orléans this morning. That included writing up a "user experience" comment form for Elections Canada on my way out the door.

A lot of us 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.

Marc said:

Use of EVMs will make the process much quicker and the electoral roles are easier to update in electronic form rather than hardcopy.

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In my area, we went back to paper. The scandals that followed the use of the machines was deemed not worth the hassle. The year we had used them, the servers went down due to the increased traffic to the voting websites, which delayed the counting to the next day. Slow and steady...

Anyway, Yay! A Liberal win! We are marked safe from having a Trump-lite as a leader. We've stood our ground!

If older tech gets the job done faster and safer, so be it.

Owain Taggart said:

Anyway, Yay! A Liberal win! We are marked safe from having a Trump-lite as a leader. We've stood our ground!

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though he intendeds to stay around a leader - not sure how tenable his position is.

the liberals have falled 3 seats short of a majority and the tories have picked up seats but at the end of the day a lot of the blame for the loss lies with poilievre and his campaign manager.

Thank Buddha Maple MAGA lost. I'm begining to think western civilization is losing it's mind tho.

Marc said:

the liberals have falled 3 seats short of a majority and the tories have picked up seats but at the end of the day a lot of the blame for the loss lies with poilievre and his campaign manager.

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I mean, probably not the best time to start leaning heavily into rhetoric when it's the very thing that has galvanized us against Trump in the first place. Not a very good reading of the room.

evil thought - given the ndp is going to lose officlal party status, I wonder if the liberals might reach out and try and get some of them to jump ship.

just need 3 then they'd have a majority.

My thoughts on the election (I know nobody asked, but humour me):

- Very happy the Liberals beat the Conservatives

- Disappointed the Liberals didn't get a majority. Normally, I actually prefer minority governments, because it helps to keep the government in check. However, in this particular case, with the threat from the Americans, I would have preferred the stability of a Liberal majority, just to know we'd be safe from non-confidence games and potential elections for the next four years.

- It looks like the main reason that the Liberals failed to get to a majority is because they underperformed to the polls in Ontario. So not really thrilled with us right now.

- Disappointed that the NDP lost official party status. That's tempered, of course, by the knowledge that the only reason we have a Liberal win right now is because of the NDP collapse. But I do wish they had eked out five more seats... at the expense of Conservatives.

- Very sad to see Singh resign as party leader. I get he didn't really have much of a choice. But I actually really like him, and don't get all the hate that people have thrown his way.

- I took a lot of very petty pleasure in Poilievre losing his seat. If he manages to stay on as leader, I know he'll just get parachuted in to some other safe riding, but I'm just enjoying it for now. I actually hope the party brings out the knives and sends him packing, and replaces him with someone more Progressive Conservative. (Could O'Toole have pulled off a victory this election if he was still leader? I think it's a possibility.)

- Really wished Jivani would have lost his seat too.

- And for something personally very disappointing that tempers the overall happy results: my riding elected a Conservative MP, which we had never done before in the history of the riding. (OK, that history only goes back to 1997, but still.) Before this election, we had been reliably NDP for two decades. Not very happy with this outcome.

Marc said:

evil thought - given the ndp is going to lose officlal party status, I wonder if the liberals might reach out and try and get some of them to jump ship.

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Rather than try to poach a handful of NDP members, I'd personally like to see them form an actual coalition. I know the Conservatives would scream blue murder, but it would give the new coalition 176 seats, which gives them a small buffer, and you end up with a stable government for the next four or five years, and also would allow NDP MPs to sit on committees and such, which they currently can't do now without party status. I know we don't usually do coalitions in Canada, but it is an option in our system, and in this particular case, seems like it would be a win-win for both parts of the coalition. I hope that Carney is at least considering it.