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Singh just stepped down and hopefully the change will mean more potential for the NDP in the next election.
I’m Indigenous Canadian and I fully wish that we could have a country and a political environment where we could support and stand by a visible minority to represent a major political party. But I have to temper that with the knowledge that our country is not fully ready for that kind of person. As much as we would like to believe that we could become a more progressive, open and accepting culture, we are still not there and it will be a few more decades or lifetimes before that can become a reality.
It would be more possible if we actually had an election system that was more representative of our people’s wishes … Proportional Representation would make it more possible to have major political leaders and politicians who represented visible minorities.
Implying that the NDP wasn’t elected due to their leader being a visible minority is either disingenuous or very misinformed. There are of course bigots in Canada, but most Canadians aren’t bigots.
Meh, I wouldn’t brush aside this so easily. You don’t have to be a full blown bigot to be affected by bias. Most people have unconscious bias that tilt their opinion one way or another. A white woman would face extra barriers… so you can safely bet a guy from the ethnicity that has some people literally saying that we have “allowed in too much of” will face a hasher hill to climb. Though I also agree that this isn’t the main reason the NDP didn’t go well, it’s probably a minor contributing factor.
How many times have I heard a phrase containing “these brown people” out loud in the last year? Not many. But not zero. And if I could also hear peoples subconscious thoughts, it would probably have been way more than we’d like to admit.
As a visible minority … I’m Indigenous Canadian … most of Canada is still bigoted. It’s not as bad as it was 50 years ago or even 20 years ago but it is still very bigoted and racist towards any visible minorities. The difference in our modern world is that the discrimination is more subtle, hidden and discrete … it’s an attitude that is literally baked in the system and fabric of society. I don’t get treated negatively or with an racism in my life but from time to time, those attitudes do appear and I am always aware of them.
I’m in northern Ontario and as much as there are a lot of NDP lovers up here, the majority of them still hold Native people in contempt and with negative attitudes … we’re always seen as either incapable of helping ourselves and worthless, while also being seen as people living with free-for-all social welfare. People want to be us but also despise or ridicule actual full blooded Native people living on their lands. They simultaneously see us as powerless while at the same time having too much control or influence over resource development. We either have no money or not allowed to make money for ourselves. Government still has a very hard time balancing between managing our complaints and allowing us enough control to not disturb their corporate friends … which when you think about it has always been the role of government in Native affairs.
The cities might not show their bigots and intolerance so easily … but in the rural, northern and remote areas, it still very much the same it was decades ago.
I always liked Singh as a person, but I feel like NDP needs some change. They are a party focused on throwing shade on other parties. They need their own identity.
Wab Kinew seems to be doing well. But I don’t know if MB would give him up.
I like and respect him as a politician, but is he NDP-leaning? He strikes me as more centre.
He’s literally the NDP premiere of Manitoba…
Yeah, he’s doing great!
That smile of his creeps me out.
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No way. His smile is contagious. It just seems odd because its so rare to see a politician with a genuine smile and not a carefully crafted one.
I would honestly love to see Wab Kinew take a run at the federal leadership.
Regardless of how he may have turned his life around, I don’t think Canada is ready for a federal leader with a previous criminal record.
Yeah, THAT’S the thing standing between them… [At this time Jerkface began rolling their eyes, and had not yet stopped by the time the comment needed to be submitted.]
I genuinely think that would be far more of a problem than him being indigenous, if that’s what you’re implying. If he were running for the CPC then yeah of course racism would be a much bigger issue.
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PP lost his seat, didn’t he?
he did
He may well have, lol.
Hopefully the joker is out.
Still awake for this.
In all seriousness, even if he loses his seat he’ll get elected in another riding. They’ll push a con to resign in a safe riding and PP will run there. It could happen quickly too. The question is whether the party is going to kick him out or not.
I imagine the Conservatives are going to blow up into civil war. By any metric, the Conservatives had this in the bag. The Liberals had been in power for long enough for the public was getting tired of them. Sure, Trump’s talk of annexing Canada wasn’t predictable however the Conservatives had a golden opportunity to pitch themselves as the “National Unity” Party and fucked that up.
Sadly, the Conservatives are just going to double down on the same terrble policies and just ride the cultural war to victory.
They value winning too much to actually fall apart, unfortunately.
All PP had to do was not be a boot licker. He couldn’t even do that.
why would they do that for a leader that went from certain majority to losing his own seat??
If this election has shown us one thing, it’s that the Conservative party is willing to ignore evidence to double-down on a bad idea.
Like the Americans they are party over country. The country has major economic issues. I don’t need to hear the prattle on about shit being “woke” or whatever. I need them to provide actual solutions. The modern conservative party like their American counterparts can’t govern, they just go on about bullshit and attack the other side.
I’d like to disagree but don’t think I can
Carney can keep him waiting 8 months and (of that’s what happens) probably should to calm things down in the Commons.
I’m literally too excited to sleep haha! We’re gonna have a productive government that will catch up to the most advanced countries in the world. We will keep and expand upon dentalcare and pharmacare.
I hope so 🙏 Good work and goodnight!
Sleep well friend! Let us dream for the future!
“We denied a Liberal NDP coalition.”
NDP immediately gains a seat, allowing coalition.It’s not even a coalition.
Coallitons are when the party with the most seats (but not a majority) doesn’t form government because the other parties all work together to form government.
When the party with the most seats (but not majority) forms government with the help of another party on non confidence votes , it’s just a minority government.
They just try to scare people with the coalition talk to try and make it seem nefarious, such as when it almost happened to Harper, but it’s a legitimate part of how our government works.
There was a point while votes were being counted tonight, we could have theoretically had a con+bq coalition government.
Edit: and even as of right now, the cons+bq+ndp could form a coalition, but I can’t imagine those 3 parties ever working together other than to trigger an election via vote of no confidence.
Well, sure.
But the point was the timing of the statement. After he said that they prevented a Liberal NDP coalition, the NDP, seconds later, gained a seat, allowing a Liberal NDP coalition of 172 seats, if they chose to do so. If they did a coalition now they would have 175.I get that, and it was hilarious, but there was never going to be a coalition government which was my main point. He was using the wrong language intentionally. Essentially he didn’t even almost prevent it because it was never going to happen.
Not quite true. Coalitions are typically starting with the party with the largest vote count to invite others into coalition talks. If they find willing partners that make up a majority and there are enough commonalities between all the coalition partners they enter into a contract. And each party in the coalition participate in the government with ministers and everything.
Interesting, I guess I’m wrong on this one, I thought it was only with the minority parties (as in not the seat leader), but it’s minority parties that would be pretty much forced to do it to make it work.
We’ve never had a federal coalition government, only that almost one when Harper prorogued parliament to avoid it.
edit: I do suspect we may have had one if the Conservatives won a small minority though.
And the BQ wouldn’t form a coalition with the current CPC, they would need to get their house in order and move left a lot for that to happen.
There was a point where the BQ could have been the only party keeping the Liberals in power though, the NDP and Greens didn’t have enough seats to help them pass a vote, but I just woke up and we’re back to the same situation as before the election… Would be funny if the Liberals get 171 and the Greens also hold the balance of power.
I wonder what May would ask for if the NDP refused to support the Liberals in that situation on something and she was the deciding vote.
“So what about those 6 billions trees you guys were supposed to plant?”
That was awesome.
Yeah. The staying on as leader thing can be put down to the “close loss” speech being written ahead of time. Not sure why he didn’t change that part, though.
He could still get his seat, technically.
Interesting takes on CBC, but reality is that Polievre is shit. He lost this election because he is terrible, stupid, lazy and inept. He wasn’t ready for an election, he didn’t do his homework, he ran scared of the media, he is stupid (demonstrated by his understanding of electricity and bread). That he believed he could treat Canadians with such disdain and disrespect. He deserves the rest of his life as an insult stuck to the sole of my shoe.
And now he needs to get his resume ready for the first time ever.
Crap like him always have some cushy job lined up for them. Like Jason Kenney and Atco.
Saw that asshole political commentating on CBC last night. Can’t we be rid of him. I thought Alberta put him in a hole.
I hate his fucking guts to the core, and nothing I’m about to say should be viewed as forgiveness, but he does seem to genuinely be a useful shortsighted idiot with a side of abhramic god bigotry mixed in for good measure. Instead of being in on it as a member of Maple MAGA like I used to think.
He’s been consistent denouncing them…even late into his leadership while still in power he was. It’s why he rage quit after winning 51% leading to Smith…
The predictable to everyone but him outcome of Wildrose eating the “united” Progress Conservatives alive from within, seems to be the true story.
I just see Houston ramping up Kenney style politics again federally and see this election as a minor setback the the creeping and direct fascism our population lives with. Maybe I’m being cynical.
You sure are, but that doesn’t invalidate your fears.
I hold to plenty of negative views that are deeply unpopular if i bring them up just because they’re negative.
The youth moved to the right. That’s scary. But, those kids are getting a front row seat to how fascist country devolves for the next 4 years.
In the great words of Total Bastard Airlines, “Bu-Bye!”
And in the great words of a Canadian celebrity that I won’t name, who asked me over coffee looking for his first job, “What’s a resume”. As in let’s resume looking for a job.
It was Buddy Cole.
he ran scared of the media
He grew up at the knee of Harper. He’s only doing what he was taught.
Generously, Trump put him in a bind. On the one hand around a third of his supporters would be down with being the 51st state, or are at least fans of what Trump is doing. If he came out too hard against Trump, he could have bled support to the PPC,
Ironically, electoral reform would save the Conservative Party. It would probably split back into a more PC style centre-right party and a more populist Reform style party. I think an old Joe Clark style PC leader could have done better, but with ⅓ of the modern CPC Qonvoy supporting Trumpians, I don’t know that they could elect one. If they did, it would be Erin O’Toole all over again.
I mean, he’s very, very good at the firehose-of-soundbites style of campaigning. The dude has literally gotten elected for every year of his working life on it.
His concession had a lot of poise and savvy. He’ll never win me over but I was impressed with his cooperative tone. But I know he hasn’t changed, and I know it is not in his nature to cooperate.
Lmao PP’s on his way to lose his own riding
Still not called, but a pretty wide gap.
Imagine if he came in 91st. It’d be a heritage moment up there with balcony guy
Hahahaha that’d be incredible
Watching the CBC feed on YouTube. It says only 10 of 266 polls reported, but Fanjoy (what an apt name) is ahead by over 50%. That’s pretty incredible.
Also wtf? 91 candidates? In a country with FPTP‽
It’s a joke/protest setup by the Longest Ballot Committee ironically in opposition to FPTP and definitely isn’t the norm haha
Oh that’s brilliant! I love it!
Well, I did it. I feel dirty, but I voted liberal. Not that it matters here. First time ever voting liberal, but the cons platform is just so damn terrible. And my usual ndp vote for the past couple times doesn’t even have a hope.
I said I’d never vote Liberal again and stay NDP hard liner after vote reform was kaboshed. No matter anyone’s opinion on that, it was why I voted Justin once.
But here we are.
I held my nose and did it too. I am the leftiest lefty that ever lefted but the NDP was not really an option this time.
I feel the same, haha
A noble sacrifice.
It’s looking like people like you made the difference, based on the vibe of the early results. It’s close.
Edit: It’s pulling apart as things go on.
Singh resigns as party leader.
“That’s not an applause line.” lol
The comment about Fanjoy potentially winning! Oooh roasted!
Go Bruce Fanjoy! Stop that demagogue!
the article I read about him said that he left his job to raise his children fulltime while his wife worked. then goes on to say his children are well into their post-secodary degrees so he’s been renovating his house and talking everyone’s ear off about how great it is because of its greenness. One of the things he’d like to do as MP is help other people renovate their houses the same way he did.
Losing to Carney, a serious member of the financial class is one thing. But losing to full time parent of 2 adults, who loves eco-friendly home renos is another thing. It’s interesting that neither men has held a conventional job in 20 years. Not to mention the dynamics (esp gender) of one of them having spent the time being a homemaker and the other being a brainwrecker.
Demagogue in a Milhouse suit who let the internet bully him out of wearing glasses. Pathetic.
This liberal guy on CBC is super fucking annoying. He doesn’t need to be campaigning on the results show. JFC
Yeah way too eager, super annoying. The woman beside him is visibly annoyed with him it’s pretty entertaining
Yeah the blatant campaigning is unnecessary and leaves a bad taste in my mouth
Please don’t put your phone in your mouth, even during election night.
The numbers for Fanjoy have been holding above 2300 for over an hour, as writing this, 219 of 266 polls.
“He’s earned his right to stay as leader.”
Dude it’s not even guaranteed that he’s keeping his seat.NDP needs to drop Singh. Conservatives need to drop PP.
Singh just announced he is stepping down as party leader.
I dont believe the hype. I think he’d have been great.
I don’t dislike Singh but I don’t think he was a good leader.
I don’t think he saw his own failures coming, but I’ve been saying for a while this would happen.
I don’t think he did a good enough job getting the message out to the working class, and that needs to be the NDP foundation. Unless it’s a worker party, what actually separates it from the greens?
I actually do like most of their platform, and the platform is bold. I Also like that he did push for dental and pharma, but as released those programs are a huge frustration to me.
I feel you, I think the NDP needs another Jack Layton. He was lightning in a bottle.
I imagine Singh could’ve approached an adequate level of leadership and approval he had if he kept accumulating more political outreach experience rather than step down, but so it goes.
I think he performed well in the debates. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NDP has trouble filling his shoes. Though they may be able to by picking someone who is more ‘demographically palatable’ to the average Canadian.
That’s a nice way to put it, but I agree. Accept the sad reality and put forward a candidate who can realistically win. Once in power you can work on reducing racism/sexism etc.
Seeing as they voth lost there seat pretty sure that choice has been made for them
Yup. Here’s hoping the selection process goes slow so the Cons can’t cause trouble for a bit.
I don’t think he’ll want to continue after this tbh
Just stepped down.
It sucks but it’s the right move. The London Fanshawe riding is devastating. We were an NDP stronghold for almost 20 years
