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Loadsa "independents" on the Ballot Discussion (split from PP by-election)

Nothing else says "serious candidate" than charging a nominal, non-refundable amount. Say $1,500.00 per candidate.
Another method may be to make it so that people may only sign one Section F – Electors Consenting to Candidacy per election. So, "Joe Blow" in riding "X" may only sign one form (most ridings need 100 signatures). So, if you wanna "protect democracy" by having 50+ candidates in the Conservative Leader's riding, you'll need 5,000 shit-bags to go along with you.

That said, if they did this for all leaders of major federal parties, then I'd get it. But they only pick on one guy, "BeCaUsE dEmOcRaCy"...
 
I'm quite confident that the re-drawing of his riding was the decisive factor in his losing to the LPC candidate.

That has been debunked to death. I believe it was also discussed quite a bit in the general election thread here, if anyone has time for a quick dig for a link.

Edit: Brain slower than fingers on Monday.
 
Of course it should have. That's what Public Servants in Ottawa do, they vote CPC
There are around 130k public servants in all of the NCR, population of 1.6million. Ottawa is not a monolithic PS population. That riding has a lot of rural in it, so even less PS and more rural voters. What way do rural voters normally vote unless they're pissed off?
 
Keep in mind that riding likely didn’t appreciate the trucker convoy which Pierre publicly supported. That likely had more to do with him losing than any other factor.
I have not heard one political analyst/pundit/etc say that, not one. David Cochrane and Rose Marie Barton did not, not Vassey, not Robert Fife, No one on CTV, Global, etc.

If you listen to the political arch chair quarterbacks (the professionals) they have attributed Pierre losing his riding for promising to reduce public service (through attrition) keep in mind that his new boundaries introduced people who never could vote for him. Then add in Bruce Fanjoy who ran an effective and very aggressive campaign against Pierre (as was his job), finally the Trump factor comes into play.
 
I have not heard one political analyst/pundit/etc say that, not one. David Cochrane and Rose Marie Barton did not, not Vassey, not Robert Fife, No one on CTV, Global, etc.

If you listen to the political arch chair quarterbacks (the professionals) they have attributed Pierre losing his riding for promising to reduce public service (through attrition) keep in mind that his new boundaries introduced people who never could vote for him. Then add in Bruce Fanjoy who ran an effective and very aggressive campaign against Pierre (as was his job), finally the Trump factor comes into play.
I don’t believe any of those pundits live in or have a great finger on the pulse of the riding. It was definitely a factor for a lot of Ottawa residents. Demonstrable past support for the convoy added a headwind to any candidate here. For some of us it’s an automatic ‘nope’ in its own right, for others it’s got some greater or lesser weight of influence on voting choice.
 
I have not heard one political analyst/pundit/etc say that, not one. David Cochrane and Rose Marie Barton did not, not Vassey, not Robert Fife, No one on CTV, Global, etc.

If you listen to the political arch chair quarterbacks (the professionals) they have attributed Pierre losing his riding for promising to reduce public service (through attrition) keep in mind that his new boundaries introduced people who never could vote for him. Then add in Bruce Fanjoy who ran an effective and very aggressive campaign against Pierre (as was his job), finally the Trump factor comes into play.
It’s a variety of factors.

Fanjoy. Trump, Trudeau leaving, personal approval numbers, not being present in the riding, and his ie fall campaign tone.

But the convoy was one of them. experienced members of his riding association including the president Marjorie Lebreton stepped down after he publicly supported them. Was no small loss.

The boundary change as explained ad nauseum was a non factor.

The Public servant thing is a convenient excuse but it is more complicated than that given the 20 year history off him getting overwhelming results.
 
PSAC openly campaigned against him
PSAC is the union. Most people don’t really follow their lead. I certainly do not.

The proof is they ignored PSAC in that riding for 20 years.

There are less than 12k public sector types (not all federal PS either, that also includes teachers, polite, municipal, provincial, community service types etc etc) or so in Carleton in a riding of 130K according to the last census. Less than 10%.

No one saw this loss coming except for Fanjoy lol. I pointed out the closing gap weeks before but I was not expecting him to lose his seat.
 
The boundary change as explained ad nauseum was a non factor.
Respectfully disagreed. It was a factor - just not in the way claimed. A poll-by-poll examination of the 2021 results with the old boundaries versus the boundaries as redistributed for 2025 show that the redistribution actually made the new bounding a couple percentage points more conservative than before; it actually served to make the riding safer for the CPC. So it was a factor in that it made it slightly easier to defend his seat. He just did still lose despite this fact. As I’ve mentioned previously he also didn’t face a PPC competitor siphoning off one or two percent of the vote.

It was a fairly contested seat with a surprising result.
 
My point was more about it being a non factor in explaining his defeat.
 
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