I will assume Canada faces the same set of problems which the US does: bigger government, financial disaster, spend thrift social programs.
East Canada polls have closed, it looks like both the Conservatives and the NDP may pick up some seats at the expense of the Liberals. FYI for Americans, “Tories” are big-C Conservatives, “Grits” are Liberals, and “Dippers” are NDP if you’re wondering about nicknames.
Go Harper!
Let’s hope the Conservatives finally get their majority.
Can’t see the public trusting Jack “Massage Parlour” Layton.
Is CSPAN covering "the ridings?"
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CBC just got in a bit of trouble for prematurely showing election results. Elections Canada takes a very dim view of this. Watching the live streaming election coverage of Sun TV now. They won’t be reporting actual results until a little later.
I was in Canada once on election day and I was amazed at how quickly they were able to count and tabulate the results and know which party had what number of seats in the parliament. Of course they don’t have the Democratic Party needing delays and confusion in order to steal elections.
WHOA! Results are in... Conservatives gain in Nova Scotia
WHOA! Results are in... Conservatives gain in Nova Scotia ... and Labrador. NDP party (radical Left) takes over seats from Bloc Quebecois ...
308 total seats.
Conservatives winning in Quebec ridings? Really? Cool!!
The CBC just called JACK LAYTON as leader of the opposition.
WHOA! Results are in... Conservatives gain in Nova Scotia ... and Labrador. NDP party (radical Left) takes over seats from Bloc Quebecois ...
... Could be a route... Conservatives look to gain a pair from Liberals in New Brunswick, also... NDP crushing BQ.
This could be historic... It looks as if Canada’s moved to a two-party system, Conservatives v. NDP. Bloc Quebecois and the Liberals have totally collapsed.
Bloc Quebecois are like Yellow-dogs... phony moderates who attract a strictly regional vote. They’ve formed governments with Conservatives in the past though.
Liberals WERE the major liberal party, now the radical NDP has taken over, it seems.
There’s two levels of bad news, here, however. Conservatives have lost a potential partner in forming a coalition government, with the absolutely horrible showing of Bloc Quebecois. Secondly, the NDP has gained a couple rural seats from the Conservatives in the far North of various provinces, meaning the Conservatives would need to form a coalition. There’s a real nasty specter of a NDP-liberal minority government rearing its ugly head.
A few switches in projections, and the Conservatives are now looking at 150 seats, after all. Plus, I’ve investigated the BQ seats, and they are winning only where the Conservatives haven’t run a strong opposition, so it’s quite possible that they may be those BQ MPs who are most inclined to work with the Conservatives.
Updates -
- AT LEAST a Conservative majority - British Columbia’s 36 seats may determine if it’s a majority
- Alberta 100% Conservative - they won every seat there
- Harper and Layton re-elected handily, Iggy and Duceppe in trouble in their ridings