[Canadian] MPs topple Liberal government, trigger election

CBC ^ | November 28, 2005 | CBC

[beaver fever]

I live in BC. The election is over for us three hours before the polls close in BC.

Once Ontario is decided the election is over.

On the bright side we don't have to stay up late to find out the the next prime minister is. And you get the added pleasure of seeing how your puny vote decided a riding or two.

Woo Hoo, we took Abbotsford!!!!

Break out the bubbly!!!!

[beaver fever]

I think the riding in you're thinking about is a lower mainland riding where a popular Chinese Liberal candidate was pushed out by one of Martins hand picked ringers, who was also his BC Provincial campaign adviser.

It backfired. The Martin shill lost the seat and a highly popular Chinese candidate in a heavy Chinese riding was humiliated. Look for that seat to go Tory this time and the candidate will be Chinese.

Never F**k with the Chinese. They don't tolerate betrayal and they have long memories. Ditto for the Sikhs.

[goldstategop]

One pundit on Nodice.ca says the Liberals stay in power only because female voters are leery of the alternative. Apart from that there's no much to commend them. They're arrogant, corrupt, dispirited, divided and bereft of ideas, energy and talent. Being too long in power is when you begin making mistakes big ones. If Stephen Harper brings his attractive wife Laureen out on the campaign trail, those female voters might give him another. My advice would be to smile more and have fun. Let Martin look dithering and worried as he usually does. Martin's main accomplishment, if you can call it that is p*ssing away Chretien's Liberal majority and imposing gay marriage upon Canada. Some legacy.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[beaver fever]

I'm afraid your's is a fools courage. This election will not be decided by the 'female' vote. Canada doesn't have first ladies and women will vote dependably for the Libs and the NDP.

The last two times the first lady thing was tried was with Margret Trudeau and Mila Mullroney.

Here's a question who is Joe Clarks wife? (excellent lawyer by the way and much smarter than Joe)

Another question which prime ministers wife showed up at a Stones concert without panties. (That shouldn't be hard since I saw the original photogragh)

So much for Canadian first ladies.

[Heatseeker]

Woo Hoo, we took Abbotsford!!!!

Yeah, now there's a real news flash. ;)

Incidentally the last time I was in that neck of the woods was in 1986, to/from visiting the World's Fair. I remember reading a newspaper story about the governing Socreds losing a bill that should have brought them down (can't remember what it was, maybe a budget bill) because they'd screwed up and didn't have enough members in the chamber.

The newspaper's opinion was that it wasn't any big deal. I remember thinking, so much for the Westminster system in Lotusland. And that was 20 years ago.

[Heatseeker]

Another question which prime ministers wife showed up at a Stones concert without panties.

Is this a trick question? ;)

[beaver fever]

BC Government:

Hey it's Friday. There's always Monday.

Hey there's a jakussi party in Whister this weekend and Monday is two days away. Plus the ministry is paying the helicopter bill!!!!!!!!!

Party on dude!!!!!!!!!

[beaver fever]

Margret Trudeau: Unshaven

[Heatseeker]

I think the riding in you're thinking about is a lower mainland riding where a popular Chinese Liberal candidate was pushed out by one of Martins hand picked ringers, who was also his BC Provincial campaign adviser.

Thank you! It was Burnaby-Douglas. That would have worried me all night until I figured it out.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

The Liberals will be wiped out in Quebec except in a handful of anglo ridings. They will lose some marginal seats in Ontario they kept the last time. Toronto area voters will punish the NDP by switching a couple of seats over to the Liberals. My prediction: a slightly stronger Liberal minority Government. This will be (unless I'm wrong) another status-quo election.

As a casual observer of Canadian politics, I understand how the Liberals will suffer in Quebec in this election, and how they would lose marginal seats in Ontario, but could you explain why Toronto ridings will punish the NDP? It seems counterintuitive to me. Thanks!

[Heatseeker]

Geez, that's a mental-image blast-from-the-past I'd rather not have had. ;)

[goldstategop]

GTA voters want the Liberals to remain in power and didn't want another election. Since they're reliably left of center there's only one party they can punish: the NDP which has a number of Toronto area ridings.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Heatseeker]

Joe Clark's wife is Maureen McTeer

Not a 'First Lady' perhaps, but in my book, Mila is still hot:

[beaver fever]

Well she was twenty six and it was a primo beaver shot.

I still think Mick Jagger got a bit of mo better in spite of his denial.

Unfortunately the poor woman was diagnosed as a manic depressive and was arrested when she tried to talk to Crown princes William and Harry when they where in Whistler.

She met them when they were babies and just assumed that the Brit Security forces would know who she was.

Sad case.

My wife was on the same cheer team with her in high school. She was a ski bunny and considered 'easy'. She met Trudeau because her father was a Liberal Senator appointed by him.

It's a small world.,

[beaver fever]

Yeah but the first lady thing is one of those American things that just didn't translate into the Canadian Real Politik.

[Heatseeker]

Yeah I've followed Canadian politics since the Trudeau years so I know Margaret's story. She just skated on appeal on her drunk-driving charge last week didn't she?

BTW, just checked and the CPC has apparently nominated George Drazenovic for that BC riding. Doesn't sound too Chinese or Sikh to me. The Tories should hire you as a consultant; looks like they could use the help.

And now that I've pimped my thread to 115+ posts I'm gonna go off and try to get some work done. ;)

[beaver fever]

I'm not sure about the name of the Chinese Candidate but BCTV did a feature about how Martin parachuted his provinicial bagman into the riding.

The shame was that the Chinese did the dogwork to turn it into a liberal riding.

Personally I was disgusted. Martin's pick was a fat stupid media geek from Ottawa. He probably had to rely on the cab drivers to find his way around the riding.

The kind of cheese dick you'ld like to punch out for the minor pleasure of it.

[Heatseeker]

If you Google around with "Burnaby-Douglas" you'll turn it up; that's what I did.

BTW, and this really isn't addressed to you but to any Canadian conservative from Nova Scotia, I'd love to get a yard sign for Paul Francis, the CPC candidate for Sackville-Eastern Shore. The reason: I live on Maryland's Eastern Shore - I can always cross out the "Sackville" part. ;)

[beaver fever]

Don't be comin down on Sackville.

Originally Sackville was a garbage dump where the NS blacks were pushed out.

They were liberated slaves from American Slave states. They built a nice community in Sackville and worked for the Sackville Iron Works which made wood burning iron stoves and also worked the shipyards in Lunenberg.

I owned one of those stoves and installed it in a 1910 motor cruiser built by Captain Watts.

Most recently the residents of Sackville have had to fight gentrification by developers who are attempting to evict them for a second time.

[Tex_GOP_Cruz]

Thanks for the insight in #112. Also, why are the Conservatives polling so badly in BC compared to last time? Is it anger at the incumbents?