2025 Federal Election - 28 Apr 25

[dapaterson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1kazn48/the_joke_on_this_shops_sandwich_board_gave_me_a

 

[daftandbarmy]

Don’t forget the Red Chinese, Indians and whaterever other meddling disporia feels their homeland still comes before and is more important than Canada.

 

[Jarnhamar]

This is neat. Canadians aged 60+ are terrified of Trump.

I guess they're serene about waiting 14 hours in an emergency room because they can make new friends.
[not too interested about making Canada a better place to live though]

 

[Altair]

This isn’t pointed at NP or anyone else. This is why I'm moving away from this shit. I've had enough argueing, explaining myself and having people with no more knowledge or experience, suggesting they know better in their own biased view. I can now decide what suits my perspective. I've explained myself above and feel that I have no need to defend my choice to anyone here. I didn’t write what I did for discussion. I wrote it as an explanation for dropping off this particular forum. I believe every word I wrote and can only hope Canada wakes up before we don’t have a Canada. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except this one is smart, connected and even more dangerous than the POS he replaced. That amateur nearly did this country in, even with his ham fisted style of doing things. We'll never find out how many billions the liberals defrauded us for now. So excuse me if I'm feeling jaded.

I'll still be around to toss the odd sarcastic remark around about our oligarchy though, but no serious discussion. I'll leave that to others.

Yeah, my life became a lot less stressful once I stopped posting regularly here.

 

[Navy_Pete]

I hope that Carney stays with a smaller cabinet. And that cabinet has more freedom of movement with their mandates to achieve the PMs intent. Along with the accountability that comes with that.

For sure, but still lots of various committees etc that actively work on specific things that MPs work on, and plenty of Cabinet positions are complex enough where an MP taking the lead on something specific to in that portfolio to assist the minister would make sense.

Depends on the individual and their background that they bring to the table I guess.

Having said that, JT got that associate minister to look at PR and basically decided to kill it, so that kind of thing only matters if you are sincere about doing something with the recommendations. I don't think Carney would have gotten successful in what he's done by ignoring experts in things he doesn't have SME on, so curious to see how he rolls as PM, and cautiously optimistic will be a more policy focused government on real issues.

 

[QV]

This is neat. Canadians aged 60+ are terrified of Trump.

I guess they're serene about waiting 14 hours in an emergency room because they can make new friends.
[not too interested about making Canada a better place to live though]

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That is the demographic least likely to seek other sources of information beyond the CBC.

 

[ModlrMike]

As long as we don't have to endure another five years of Squeaky Frump lecturing us like we're 2 year olds, I'm good.

 

[Lumber]

Don’t forget the Red Chinese, Indians, wexit Albertans, and whaterever other meddling disporia feels their homeland still comes before and is more important than Canada.

Updated.

 

[Quirky]

This is neat. Canadians aged 60+ are terrified of Trump.

I guess they're serene about waiting 14 hours in an emergency room because they can make new friends.
[not too interested about making Canada a better place to live though]

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Liberal supporters vote based on fear of something.
Conservatives vote for CPC because they want to change things for the better.
NDP are just mentally insane.

 

[MilEME09]

According to ctv the final number for the liberals if 169, so 3 seats shy of a majority. Probably to most stable minority we will ever see

 

[ModlrMike]

The Libs are going to cater to the BQ. There's no way they side with the NDP given how badly the dippers did last night.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Updated.

All fun and games till F22's start visiting for oil.

The Libs are going to cater to the BQ. There's no way they side with the NDP given how badly the dippers did last night.

Singh is trying hard to turn his ball funding chance to become the opposition and leverage some NDP programs to painting himself as a Martyr.

 

[Remius]

Liberal supporters vote based on fear of something.
Conservatives vote for CPC because they want to change things for the better.
NDP are just mentally insane.

Strange because a good lot of you posted how doomed we’d be under Carney and how we’ll be in some sort of mad max scenario by 2040. Sounds like fear to me.

 

[AmmoTech90]

Liberal supporters vote based on fear of something.
Conservatives vote for CPC because they want to change things for the better.

From what I've seen conservatives are afraid of change, especially change that doesn't benefit them, even if benefits others.

Non-cons are more interested in making the country as a whole better.

 

[KevinB]

From what I've seen conservatives are afraid of change, especially change that doesn't benefit them, even if benefits others.

Non-cons are more interested in making the country as a whole better.

Better is a relative term.

 

[HavokFour]

The Libs are going to cater to the BQ. There's no way they side with the NDP given how badly the dippers did last night.

Bloc Québécois ready for ‘truce’ with Liberals

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said he is ready to work with the Liberal Party of Canada under a temporary truce as the government takes on U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.ctvnews.ca

Alt: https://archive.ph/5CHvj

Could probably go to any of the 3 to get the votes to pass stuff when needed, honestly. Offer a little quid pro quo with a side of "otherwise we'll make an offer to [party] instead". BQ will be the first stop though, you're right about that.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Strange because a good lot of you posted how doomed we’d be under Carney and how we’ll be in some sort of mad max scenario by 2040. Sounds like fear to me.

Reminds me of these fear mongers.

Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are​

 

[Eaglelord17]

From what I've seen conservatives are afraid of change, especially change that doesn't benefit them, even if benefits others.

Non-cons are more interested in making the country as a whole better.

Change isn’t always better. Pushing change for changes sake isn’t a good thing.

Sometimes that change directly harms people too such as the change in housing prices, or the increase in cost of living, or loss of good paying secure jobs, or education inflation for a ever decreasing in pay entry level job, or banning property just to push ideologies.

Maybe believing things were pretty good and we should try to preserve it wasn’t a terrible thing. We went from #5 in world happiness in 2014 to #18 in 2024. That isn’t a positive change.

The change the non-cons push is what is in their interests, not mine, maybe it’s in yours.

 

[GR66]

To my mind if Carney's government sticks to a fairly narrow set of policy objectives that are focused on dealing with the key issues currently facing Canada (the Trump tariffs and security concerns, cost of living/housing, energy and expanding trade) then I don't think he'll have to form an official coalition with any party. The Canadian voting public I don't think will be to happy with any opposition party that interferes with that kind of agenda (unless Carney tries to enact an extremely unpopular policy) so he'll likely muster enough votes to support those policies.

So long as they stay away from legislating on contentious issues...anything with the whiff of "woke" identity politics, major climate change policies/restrictions on Western resource opportunities, major intrusions into areas of Provincial jurisdiction, etc. it will be hard for the opposition to force an election that the majority of Canadians don't want.

So long as the Conservatives replace PP with a leader that has some gravitas I think it could be positive for them as well. If they're seen as being responsible in supporting government policies where they make sense and arguing for improvements/alternatives in a respectful but firm style of opposition then I think they'll overcome some of the reservations that voters in the political centre have about the populist-style conservatives of the PP wing of the party.

I'm guessing that come the US midterms in 2026 many of the main issues will have been at least started to be addressed, Trump's spell over the Republicans and their voters will be reduced due to some disillusionment over the effects of his more extreme policies and Canadians will start to feel a little more comfortable in our place in the New World Order. That I think is when the CPC might be able to look at challenging the Liberal Government.

$0.02

 

[MilEME09]

With the election over, perhaps it's time to end this thread?