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Posted on 04/29/2025 2:59:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to have lost his seat in the House of Commons, according to public broadcaster CBC.
The report of Poilievre's defeat in an Ottawa-area riding (constituency) came after his party was defeated nationwide by Mark Carney's Liberal Party.
Before President Donald Trump returned to power in the neighbouring US, Poilievre and his Conservatives were predicted to win at the Canadian polls. But new trade tariffs issued by Trump - coupled with his threats to make Canada the 51st American state - appear to have changed the race.
In his seat, Poilievre also faced a challenge from local advocates wanting to change an electoral system.
Liberal Party candidate Bruce Fanjoy is projected by CBC to win the Carleton seat that Poilievre held for two decades. There has been no immediate reaction from Poilievre.
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The opposition will have somebody new.
He tried his best.
What happens now, if he remains leader, is one of his MP’s will give up his seat.
I’ll take your word for it. My understanding of how Canadian politics work, practically, is murky.
That’s typically what happens, although the leader can choose to remain leader (if the party wants him) and stay in his office during Parliamentary sessions and watch the proceedings from there.
This is proof that elections in Canadia are safe and effective.
Now we can dispense with the lie that Canada is a friend and finally treat them as the hostile nation they are.
For decades they have waged economic war against us with tariffs and regulations on trade, now we can treat them accordingly and the argument that the government does not represent their people is dead.
TDS has become a pandemic in Canada.
I’m hoping for a unified energy deal so that Alberta can be protected from Ottawa.
Carney will deal with Trump now that the election is over.
AMEN
Only down east. They’ve always hated the United States since the time they fled to Canada.
Good. No pension for him.
Ya.
WW3.....with Canada.
Ya.
I take it they meddle extensively?
I’ll take your word for it. My understanding of how Canadian politics work, practically, is murky.
It is. So Is Cotton’s.
While Carney gained seats, he netted under 10, while the CPC netted over 20 and had their best percentage of the popular vote since 1985, and the most votes ever——the problem being that the NDP collapse disproportionality benefited the LPC, causing them to finish about 1.5% higher
This “defeat” is an even stronger defeat than the Pub loss in 2020. The Liberals, alas, seem to have had a very good ground game in Carleton, and Carney didn’t spend much time there during the 36 days of campaigning as he was busy helping the party win seats elsewhere. The Carleton seat is the equivalent of a North-Virginia seat—he is SOuth of the seat holding the part of Ottawa with the Capital by only about 3 miles at the point where Ottawa South and Nepean, two of the more liberal ridings that he borders on, by only about three miles. It it the equivalent of having a seat that includes the Southern part of ALexandria Virginia and some of the “more rural” area to the south and west of ALexandria.
LEading a big net gain in Ontario which includes losing a handful of more vulnerable seats while scooping up many more of the purple seats is not an awful result, and far better than expected.
If the Bloc had managed to hold and the NDP had lost fewer seats to the Liberals, the Liberals would have lost a few seats, and ended up with an extremely weak minority, or possibly handed the CPC one of the weakest minorities ever.
While he can remain party leader and out of parliament, and in other circumstances it would be traditional for him to stand down, I hope that he does not, and would not object if my MP stepped down so that he can win her seat in a by-election (my the north-east corner of my riding borders the north-west corner of Carleton, and while my MP didn’t do as well as expected, especially in terms of victory margin because the opposition vote was close to consolidated, she still won by about 20 points, and is tied for being the most conservative of the nine ridings that border Carleton).
So let me see if I got this right. Because Trump won the US presidency, Canadians decided to make life even worse for themselves?
My MP thinks a good deal of him, and she is the real deal.
She was the only one in Parliament to vote against the Paris accords——he is much better than the last two and far better than anyone the establishment is likely to send in his place.
He is a sort of Canadian Trump to Harper’s Reagan.
The leader can still speak on behalf of his party, even if he has no seat.
Thanks for your analysis. There were some very nice surprises from last night, despite the Liberal win. I’m that bit amazed to see that chunk of Newfoundland Tory blue, as well as northern Ontario. And some bits of 905 were won as well.
Ping Canada Ping
I don’t think this is the best article, but it is one somebody else took time to post, which is more than I will do before late afternoon.
If anyone else is interested in taking on the list, which numbers about 20, Freepmail me.
Otherwise, after the dust has settled, I plan to become very inactive until the government falls.
If you do want the list pinged, I could do that-—and ALberta’s Child will have a copy.
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