canada elections

So, there are rumours afoot that Trudeau will be calling an election! CBC is reporting leaks that he will call the GG on Sunday to dissolve Parliament. So, let's discuss this rumour: A good call? A bad call? It's all a hoax made up by that commie nazi Plenty O'Tool? And if it turns out we are...

So, Canada is now in the middle of an election. (As opposed the U.S., which is never NOT in an election.) Election day is October 21, 2019. I was debating whether I should create a new thread or just add to the "Canada/Trudeau" thread. Some early polling results: The Liberals and...

In the Canadian federal election held October 19, 2015, Canadians voted out Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada and swept in the Liberals under Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The Trudeau Liberals went from being the third place party in the House of...

Harper officially announced the date for the next election over the weekend. This will be the most expensive, and nearly the longest, campaign in Canadian history. I'm thinking it will be between the Conservatives and NDP.

I don't seem to have seen this mentioned here and am posting it as informational rather than requesting, or expecting any comment. ;) Socialists elected in Canada's oil patch? Alberta election gets noticed in U.S...

So, the brother of Rob Ford failed to take over as Mayor of Toronto, but, despite being treated for cancer, Rob Ford still won a Council seat. Given his record of drug use the place where he was elected seems somehow appropriate: 'However, he did win election to a council seat in the Etobicoke...

In 1968, a little-known Trudeau beat the Progressive Conservative Party in an election to become Prime Minister of Canada. Will the same thing happen in 2015? A different question might be, given the string of Liberal leadership failures, is Justin Trudeau the one who finally has what it takes...

(ETA: Shortest thread title ever! Mods, please change the title to "Canadian election fraud investigation") Fraudulent robocalls sent voters to wrong polling locations This is very very curious indeed and may cast doubt on the results of the Federal election in Canada, which it's my...

According to Wikipedia, last time (2008) they had 0.03% of the vote, total # of votes was 3,639, with 24 candidates in various canadian provinces. It means that the average candidate got 150 votes. Anybody knows how they did this year? In these tough economic times, the party of the people...

Looks like Canada might be heading to the polls soon. For those unfamiliar with Canadian politics, Canada has 4 main parties in the house of Commons. The Conservatives are the party in power (and they are on the political 'right'), but they only have a minority government. Opposing them are the...

So... Apparently there's rumblings about 'uniting the left' in Canada, i.e. the dippers and the grits joining forces into one big leftish party. There are still pissed off old-timey PC conservatives in Central Canada that are now forced to vote for a social conservative party because of the...

Ok... so we get the advantage of 36 day election campaigns, but sometimes we have em close together! The Conservatives may face the fall of their government after presenting a budget with none of stimulus demanded by the opposition - and with a poison pill to end the 1.95 per vote public...

Pretty bold move . . . http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aEE0fC5RZcOg&refer=canada

Okay, this is the first thread on the upcoming Canadian election. My evidence that Harper will drop the writ is abundant, but here's an article from today: Layton predicts election For our friends in the U.S. and around the rest of the world... Because the party leaders are already chosen...

Well, for anyone who's interested in the Canadian election but doesn't have much information on it, I thought I'd review some of the more, well, interesting mess-ups: - The conservatives proposed a tax cut to families with young children to help with daycare. (This differs from the Liberal plan...

Today is election day up here. So far, the atlantic provinces seem to be voting status quo....Liberals with 20 seats, Conservatives with 5 seats, NDP with 3 seats. (total seats in parlaiment are 308)