Posted on 10/20/2015 11:30:00 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canada's Liberal Party, led by the son of the country's most famous political figure in the second half of the 20th century, ended the nine-year Conservative premiership of Stephen Harper with a landslide victory in Monday's federal election.
According to a tally by the Canadian Press, the Liberals passed the 170-seat threshold needed to gain control of parliament at 12:15 a.m. ET Tuesday. In all, the Liberals won 184 seats. The Conservatives were a distant second with 99 seats, while the left-wing New Democratic Party placed third with 44 seats.
The results mean that Justin Trudeau, 43, a former schoolteacher and son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, will become the second-youngest leader in Canada's history. Trudeau's Liberals had been favored to win the most seats, but few expected a majority and fewer foresaw the final margin of victory.
"We beat fear with hope," Trudeau said in his victory speech to supporters in Montreal early Tuesday. "We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vision that brings Canadians together. Most of all we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less."
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I hope this is illustrative of socialism’s destruction of the west. Canadians are generally sheep. They’ll go along to get along.
The human condition
We are fat & happy, so lets destroy ourselves.
Trudeau = Double-plus ungood. (Just a little Newspeak lingo there)
I sort of knew this would happen when I got my annual free trial of NHL Center Ice and could watch the commercials. The Liberal TV ads were better than the Tories’ by an order of magnitude.
Let’s hope this leftist clown crashes the Canadian Dollar to 1.7 per USD or lower. I’ve been looking to buy a lake cabin up there now for a couple years.
Like Mexico, they are fortunate for their proximity to the US.
You’re forgetting that Yellen continues to run the printing presses flat-out.
Oh Canada, the welfare socialist state beckons. Canadians will regret this decision; their standard of living will decline, their health care will get even worse, and the invited Muslim invaders will rejoice as they are imported in the tens of thousands. What a future, and Obama will now have to race even faster to remake the US as Canada goes even further left.
As of right now, the true face of socialism hasn’t been publicized. The bread lines, the rampant unemployment, the runs on toilet paper, soap, and clean water... they haven’t been broadcast to the world.
Socialist utopias like Venezuela and Cuba are generally locked out from the real world. We don’t see how bad it is there, and the reports out of those countries are often so bad as to be unbelievable.
The world’s power brokers are working to get socialist governments seated across the world to start the socialist revolution with no major powers able to object and who will be involved in the descent. When the systems around the globe collapse, the power brokers will watch as the world becomes a giant “Hunger Games” scenario. The people will destroy each other in bids for power across the world. Major infrastructure will crumble. In all likelihood, there will be a worldwide media blackout and the Internet will be heavily regulated to prevent news of the descent around the world being disseminated.
They won a majority of seats but it can hardly be categorized as a “landslide”.
Venezuela and Cuba
I know people from both. It is worse than we hear on conservative media.
I would have agreed with your statement 15 years, or so, ago. Just how is Canada fortunate to be near the US in its current condition?
I know people who left Venezuela when Hugo Chavez’ nonsense started getting really bad and emigrated to Canada.
Wonder how they are feeling this morning?
Me too. Which leads to a question. What would the residency rules be if you should decide (for whatever reasons) to spend most of the year there?
Would you be left alone, or would some Canadian immigration officer come knocking on your door?
Not real good.
Canadan citizens still benefit from the ability to escape the disastrous health care system by looking south for unimpeded care. That window is closing. Of course their defense costs are lower than if they had an adversary on their long shared border.
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