No surprise to be honest.
Now to come clean. Many of you know I am friend's with Tony McQuail (the old guy in the leadership race). Sad but he told me before he even threw his name in the hat that he had no realistic expectation to win but he only wanted to bring up certain issues. I knew about some of Tony's views (including him being a US draft evader during the Vietnam war, he is devout anti-war and anti-military) on military, war, etc. I did not realize he was going to demonize oil and gas as hard as he did (he uses diesel and gas equipment on his farm). He really does live pretty basic for those that want to know, and is really good at organic holistic farming.
As for Avi Lewis, this will be interesting. I did hear one political pundit say something interesting. I can't remember the dudes name. As Trump is in office for longer, many Canadians go from total fear of him to outright anger. He speculated the mass flocking of people to the LPC was due to fear of Trump and seeing hope in Carney. I don't know if I agree with that, maybe some.
Had Jagmeet taken a firm anti-Liberal stance while Justin was the boss, I think we can assume it would have been a very different outcome.
Now, I still see Avi maybe growing the seat count. Will he add 3-4 seats or 10-15 seats? Lets hear what he really has to say now that he has won the leadership. I think he will grow the part somewhat because the crazy lefties will not stay with Carney and since the closet liberal Jagmeet is gone now, they may feel more comfortable to go home to the NDP.
I talked to some of my old peers at United Steel workers (yeah I was a United Steel worker union member for 3 years) and they ain't feeling Avi. They were lukewarm to Rob Ashton.
That being said, Avi has a chance. He needs to park some of his crazy ideology and to use a Carney word "be pragmatic" if he wants to revive the party. Time will tell.
