***Canadian Election Results/Discussion Thread***

[maynardjames]

You guys better take me back.

NDP supporter here.... Don't worry, our party would represent your problems and issues in the parliament to the best of our abilities..... Pray for Mr. Jack Layton's health...He's your best option......

[USC]

Someone want to aware us non Canadians on Stephen Harper's economic policies?

[CHRSTNA]

I just want to watch some Family Guy on Global.. BUT NOOOOOOOOO, the election is on that channel too. FML.

[Androgeus]

I just want to watch some Family Guy on Global.. BUT NOOOOOOOOO, the election is on that channel too. FML.

And this is why women should not be permitted to vote.

[bazurkk]

I just want to watch some Family Guy on Global.. BUT NOOOOOOOOO, the election is on that channel too. FML.

Sorry our ability to practice freedom has to interrupt old programming you can easily find online.

[CHRSTNA]

And this is why women should not be permitted to vote.

lulz jakes on you, I didn't vote.

[doylertheoiler]

lulz jakes on you, I didn't vote.

why? out of protest or sloth?

[Mike-anon]

Only thing pleasing about this is all the liberal hipster *******s who are crying in their sushi and starbucks right now.


Disagree with Harper on a lot of things.

This.

I'm not overly happy (I wanted a tory minority until Ignatieff was replaced by someone who wasn't such a tool), but I can deal. I'm REALLY against tough on crime/minimum sentencing though, so we'll see how this plays out.

Democracy in action. Canada spoke out. Glad there is not another useless minority.

Ya, 40% of the popular vote god 55% [100%] of the seats. Democracy

I don't understand why we always fail on changing FPTP. Canadians can be pretty dumb sometimes.

[KingCanuck]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2004730/



UPDATE: THIS DUMBASS BITCH GOT ELECTED!!!!! STRONG WTFFFFFFFF

She’s just back from Vegas, her French needs work and the party can’t confirm whether she’s even set foot in the riding, but a new poll shows NDP candidate Ruth Ellen Brosseau is within striking distance of winning a seat in Parliament.

The single mother who lives in Gatineau, Que., and works in Ottawa as an assistant manager of a Oliver’s pub at Carleton University in Ottawa is a classic parachute candidate.

Yet there’s no sign that her parachute ever landed in Berthier-Maskinongé, a Quebec riding near Trois-Rivières that is about a three-hour drive from her home.

Local media say she has not granted any interviews and an NDP spokesman could not confirm whether she ever visited the riding.

“She is both excited and nervous,” said NDP spokesman Marc-André Viau, who has spoken with Ms. Brosseau since she returned from a previously scheduled vacation in Las Vegas. Another NDP spokesman had told The Canadian Press that Ms. Brosseau was “a little freaked out” by the sudden media attention.

“She was not ready to do a press conference, but she’s learning,” said Mr. Viau, who said she will need to “perfect” her French-language skills. “She will be learning in the days to come to be more confident to talk to media and to be a public figure. So if she’s elected, we’ll make sure that she’s ready.”

As The Globe and Mail first reported Tuesday, Ms. Brosseau kept working at the pub in Ottawa throughout the campaign and then took a vacation to Las Vegas. Her manager at the bar told The Globe he had no idea his assistant was running for public office.

Now a survey released Thursday by Cible recherche shows Ms. Brosseau is firmly in second place. The poll of 503 residents in the riding found Bloc Québécois incumbent Guy André is in the lead with 36-per-cent support, followed by Ms. Brosseau at 29 per cent. Francine Gaudet of the Liberals is at 17 per cent and Mari-Claude Godue of the Conservatives at 15 per cent.

It is not known how Ms. Brosseau became an NDP candidate. A brief biography on the NDP website states that “for many years Ruth Ellen has committed her time and energy to finding homes for stray animals in her community.”

A survey of 513 people in the neighbouring riding of Trois-Rivières found the NDP candidate, Robert Aubin, is well ahead of Bloc incumbent Paule Brunelle, with 42-per-cent support compared to 28 per cent. The Conservatives are in third with 17 per cent and the Liberals are in fourth with 8 per cent.

All parties must regularly scramble to find candidates in ridings that are considered virtually hopeless at the outset of a campaign. However, the surprising rise of the NDP in Quebec means some of these candidates – people who are simply a name on the ballot – could find themselves elected to Parliament on Monday.

Meanwhile, the NDP confirmed that another one of its Quebec candidates, Isabelle Maguire, running in the riding of Richmond-Arthabaska, is now in France.

Mr. Viau acknowledged that the surge in NDP support in the province of Quebec came as a surprise even to them.

“We were in a campaign where we were expecting growth, but this is bigger movement than what we expected,” he said. “Some of the candidates were not expecting this.”

lulz were had

[DiseasedScrotum]

Someone want to aware us non Canadians on Stephen Harper's economic policies?

Similar to the blue dog democrats/moderate republicans. No tax increases, lower corporate taxes, tax breaks and more free market oriented, increased military spending, lower spending on social programs, lower environmental regulation, tougher on crime.

Thats pretty much a generic explanation and I tried not to add bias.

[Tabarnakz]

In reality it's probably not going to be that bad, still disappointed but not surprised. I hope Liberals have a more charismatic candidate next election. Sucks that people gave up on the Liberal party. Oh well, politics are about selling. Liberals were offering an excellent product but they haven't been very good salesmen since Jean Chrétien.

Glad the Bloc is now nothing but a memory.

So anyways, Conservatives are going to name 4 supreme court judges. Thought we'd have legal marijuana anytime soon? Jakes on us, maybe our grandchildren will have it. Srsly though, those 4 individuals will have a big impact on our country for the next 20 years. Especially since the court already has some pretty conservative people (Deschamps, Rothstein, Cromwell)

[FitStreisand]

WTF I know that girl, she bought me a drink in october ... was at a bar called 4 jeudi, it's usually for people around 25-30.

Did not bang tho.

[Tabarnakz]

he massive debt Moulrouney incurred after Trudeau collapsed the economic engine of the country with the National Energy Program.

I wish he would have stayed in power long enough to be humiliated in the 1984 Election instead of handing it off to Turner, maybe Liberals wouldn't hold on to their hero worship of that failure.

Harper's problems should be blamed on Chretien
Chretien's problems should be blamed on Mulroney
Mulroney's problems should be blamed on Trudeau

I love politics. . (truely, I do)

[CanadaBBOY]

Wow Canadians are idiots who just believe attack ads and propaganda... enjoy your self-destructing country over the next 4 years. The nice thing is that after Harper has full reign to destroy the country over the next 4 years, they'll probably never get voted in again.

Europe is looking great right now.

[CanadaBBOY]

In reality it's probably not going to be that bad, still disappointed but not surprised. I hope Liberals have a more charismatic candidate next election. Sucks that people gave up on the Liberal party. Oh well, politics are about selling. Liberals were offering an excellent product but they haven't been very good salesmen since Jean Chrétien.

Glad the Bloc is now nothing but a memory.

So anyways, Conservatives are going to name 4 supreme court judges. Thought we'd have legal marijuana anytime soon? Jakes on us, maybe our grandchildren will have it.

Abortion laws, private prisons, not more support for rape victims, etc... welcome to hell for the next 4 years.

Enjoy your evangelical christian leader for the next 4 years you idiots.

[Dths]

Wow Canadians are idiots who just believe attack ads and propaganda... enjoy your self-destructing country over the next 4 years. The nice thing is that after Harper has full reign to destroy the country over the next 4 years, they'll probably never get voted in again.

Europe is looking great right now.

My hope is harper doesn't fuk it up to much out of fear of losing the next election, because if he fuks around at all he will lose the next election almost as bad as liberals lost this one.

[Candees]

Someone want to aware us non Canadians on Stephen Harper's economic policies?

They don't know either, they just voted for him because he promised to lower taxes.

[CanadaBBOY]

Someone want to aware us non Canadians on Stephen Harper's economic policies?

Spend like a drunken sailor, lie about spending, refuse to report on spending, get voted in contempt of parliament for lying and not reporting about spending and detainee reports, Harper then closes down parliament 2 times to avoid being voted in non-confidence (for being a **** up and lying), Harper in a massive deficit then wants to buy private prisons and massively expensive jets and cut corporate taxes. Oh, and spending billions on the G20 summit (something like 100 times more than last time), while taking a lot of that money and illegally spending it on something other than the G20 summit, then refusing to report where the money went. Also illegally campaigning.

Solid guy, good work Canadians.

[Dths]

They don't know either, they just voted for him because he promised to lower taxes.

Canada is full of so many retarded tax humpers to jump at the mention of lowering taxes without realizing that the money has to come from somewhere and most of Harpers platform will raise costs in other areas.

But the majority of Canadians are clearly stupid and fell for the tax cut propaganda.

[Candees]

Abortion laws, private prisons, not more support for rape victims, etc... welcome to hell for the next 4 years.

Enjoy your evangelical christian leader for the next 4 years you idiots.

Did you think people were generally intelligent?

Most of them have no idea what platform belongs to who.

They vote Conservative because Canadians outside of urban centers generally want 2 things.

1. Lower taxes.

2. Less immigrants.

Somehow, they have correlated Harper and the conservatives to these things.

[CanadaBBOY]

My hope is harper doesn't fuk it up to much out of fear of losing the next election, because if he fuks around at all he will lose the next election almost as bad as liberals lost this one.

His first move will be to ram through around 110 new extreme crime laws, essentially turning us into the USA with their terrible legal system (make more people criminals, put them in jail, private jails, make money off them, decrease rehabilitation of criminals and crime prevention, increase crime, make more money, etc...). We're in for a **** storm.

[maynardjames]

So anyways, Conservatives are going to name 4 supreme court judges. Thought we'd have legal marijuana anytime soon? Jakes on us, maybe our grandchildren will have it. Srsly though, those 4 individuals will have a big impact on our country for the next 20 years. Especially since the court already has some pretty conservative people (Deschamps, Rothstein, Cromwell)

Fu...............

[CanadaBBOY]

Did you think people were generally intelligent?

Most of them have no idea what platform belongs to who.

They vote Conservative because Canadians outside of urban centers generally want 2 things.

1. Lower taxes.

2. Less immigrants.

Somehow, they have correlated Harper and the conservatives to these things.

Funny how it's been proven that in Harpers plans he is going to allow LESS immigrants into the country every year (despite his direct lie at the all candidates debate), and he is going to increase our taxes and decrease corporate taxes. Again if the drooling masses of idiots in this country did a bit of research this could have been avoided.

[Candees]

Harper's problems should be blamed on Chretien
Chretien's problems should be blamed on Mulroney
Mulroney's problems should be blamed on Trudeau

I love politics. . (truely, I do)

So Mulroney's 2 million legal fees which he charged to the citizens of Canada were the result of Trudeau ?

Paul Martin shifted the federal deficit and Harper ended up in Parliament with a clean slate.

[Dths]

Funny how it's been proven that in Harpers plans he is going to allow LESS immigrants into the country every year (despite his direct lie at the all candidates debate), and he is going to increase our taxes and decrease corporate taxes. Again if the drooling masses of idiots in this country did a bit of research this could have been avoided.

Move to Europe for four years, I am going to ride the storm out and make sure to point out Harper's idiocy to every conservative voting assbag for the next four years.

[Tabarnakz]

Abortion laws, private prisons, not more support for rape victims, etc... welcome to hell for the next 4 years.

Enjoy your evangelical christian leader for the next 4 years you idiots.

I'm far from a Conservative supporter but it's not the first or the last Conservative PM we're getting. We'll get through it. You're exagerating. That being said, we need convinced people who exagerate their statements to win the next elections, not stuck up people like me who measure every single word they use.

[CanadaBBOY]

Move to Europe for four years, I am going to ride the storm out and make sure to point out Harper's idiocy to every conservative voting assbag for the next four years.

I won't be able to move for a good 3 years, so i'll be doing the same as you. I'd love to though.

For the first time in my life I can say i'd probably rather live in the USA than under a Harper majority.

[ManyBigGuys]

Spend like a drunken sailor, lie about spending, refuse to report on spending, get voted in contempt of parliament for lying, Harper then closes down parliament 2 times to avoid being voted in non-confidence (for being a **** up and lying), Harper in a massive deficit then wants to buy private prisons and massively expensive jets and cut corporate taxes. Oh, and spending billions on the G20 summit (something like 100 times more than last time), while taking a lot of that money and illegally spending it on something other than the G20 summit, then refusing to report where the money went. Also illegally campaigning.

Solid guy, good work Canadians.

who cares as long as there's LOWER TAXES!!!!!!!!

[CanadaBBOY]

I'm far from a Conservative supporter but it's not the first or the last Conservative PM we're getting. We'll get through it. You're exagerating. That being said, we need convinced people who exagerate their statements to win the next elections, not stuck up people like me who measure every single word they use.

Well saying it will be hell is an exaduration, but he is going to do all of the things i've said (already doing them by cutting funding for rape victims, victims of child abuse, etc..)

[CanadaBBOY]

who cares as long as there's LOWER TAXES!!!!!!!!

Yup, lower taxes for microsoft, HP, xerox, safeway, etc... all those huge corporations that don't give anything back to us are going to take those tax savings and give their CEO's bigger bonus's. Hopefully all of those redneck albertans really appreciate the tax cuts going to those big companies and not to them.