Politics

[HarrisonSasquatchWx]

Yeah, the CBC will always cheer for the liberals and it definitely helped some old people to continue to vote liberal I feel sorry to all the young people of Canada. They are the ones that lost but we must keep going.

Very well said John as an old timer myself however young at heart l've seen this same old same old election after election it's the young pups like Jr. Man and Stuffo's etc. that have the ability and smarts to change this country's future for the better.

[AbbyJr]

Not happening.

I don’t know. The liberals are at 169 seats and I don’t think that’s a final count yet. Still unlikely they reach a majority but it’s possible.

[Forrest Gump]

Kevin O'leary said he is willing to give Carney a chance, but he has to repeal bill 69 and remove all the carbon taxes, otherwise capital will continue to flee the country. Carney needs to reverse course and unlock our natural resources, after years of Trudeau telling the whole world,please don't invest in Canada.

[stuffradio]

Breaking news: CBC projects a minority government. What a failure for Carney considering the polling since the election campaign began had him winning in a landslide.

[Typeing3]

What does it mean if a party loses official status?

Less public funding and less questions during question period.

[Typeing3]

I don’t know. The liberals are at 169 seats and I don’t think that’s a final count yet. Still unlikely they reach a majority but it’s possible.

Likely not as it now looks like the NDP are confirmed in Nunavut and Vancouver Kingsway. Those ridings looked like they may be candidates to flip to the Liberals early this morning based on the advanced vote counts but they have not.

Also on the topic of the NDP, looks like this is the worst federal election result for them in terms of seats and vote % since 1935. Their biggest beneficiary is obviously the Liberals, which is not surprising given their unofficial coalition.

[Glacier]

Interesting. the Poillievre conservatives improved with women more than men.

BUT, look at the old and rich, those definitely went the opposite direction.

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[AbbyJr]

After 4 years of the Democrats, Americans said enough is enough and voted for change. Yet, after 10 years of the Liberals, Canadians said bring it on and voted for the status quo. It's really sad to see how far this country has fallen. Whether or not Trump was the best choice for America is irrelevant. At least the Americans were willing to admit the faults of their former government and say no to the status quo. Canadians remain in denial.

[Weather101]

While I prefer to use a pen even when writing in birthday cards, I don't think anybody is actually tampering with election votes. There's literally zero evidence of that. If this is happening, show some proof. As a centre-right conservative myself, these conspiracy theories drive me absolutely nuts.

Amazing post! Very true

[Weather101]

Was it the older generation that mainly voted liberal? Because it seems like everyone over 50 supported them.

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

After 4 years of the Democrats, Americans said enough is enough and voted for change. Yet, after 10 years of the Liberals, Canadians said bring it on and voted for the status quo. It's really sad to see how far this country has fallen. Whether or not Trump was the best choice for America is irrelevant. At least the Americans were willing to admit the faults of their former government and say no to the status quo. Canadians remain in denial.

I… I don’t know that an electorate that willingly voted for a fascist who attempted to incite a coup is any sort of model to aspire to.

[AbbyJr]

Title: Poilievre’s biggest error had nothing to do with Trump, strategist says
Author: Andrew Weichel
Date: April 29th, 2025
Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election ... trategist/

There was anger and disbelief among many Conservative supporters on election night, as Mark Carney’s Liberals pulled off a historic come-from-behind victory.

The energy behind Pierre Poilievre’s campaign – palpable at rallies that attracted thousands of attendees – created a certainty among some that the polling and projections predicting Monday’s outcome were simply wrong.

Just months earlier the Conservatives appeared poised to win the 2025 election handily, enjoying a massive lead over the Liberals under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.


So what went wrong?

While many pundits have credited Carney’s success to the threats to Canada’s economy and sovereignty posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, political strategist Kory Teneycke believes Poilievre’s party made a critical mistake long before America’s tariffs were announced.

“The biggest strategic error that the Conservatives had going into this election was pounding Justin Trudeau and the Liberals with tens of millions of dollars of advertising,” Teneycke told CTV News during Monday’s election coverage.


Years of attacks had Trudeau polling below 20 per cent by the time he resigned in January, leaving Poilievre without a favoured political punching bag, said Teneycke, who led Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives to three straight majority governments as Premier Doug Ford’s campaign manager.

“If Pierre Poilievre was fighting against Justin Trudeau – you keep everything else the same – we’d be having a Conservative majority tonight,” he added. “We went too hard in the lead-up to the campaign and we got rid of the guy who was going to deliver a victory for us.”

Instead, the Liberals are now elected in 169 ridings, three short of a majority, compared to 144 for the Conservatives.

And on Tuesday morning, CTV News declared Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy the winner in Poilievre’s riding of Carleton, ending his nearly two-decade tenure as a Member of Parliament, at least temporarily.

Political observers have also pointed to Poilievre’s initial reluctance to speak out against Trump, early in the U.S. president’s emerging trade war, as a factor in the Conservatives’ poor fortunes.

Teneycke, who made headlines earlier this month accusing Poilievre’s team of “campaign malpractice,” agreed that was a strategic mistake, but said there were other errors along the way that might haunt the party for years to come.

“I think there’s a question as to whether or not the type of campaign the Conservatives ran was so frightening to NDP voters that they gave up their decades-long voting preference to vote Liberal for a Bay Street banker,” he said.

The NDP has lost party status, and leader Jagmeet Singh, after failing to win re-election in his riding of Burnaby Central, has already announced he will step down.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives – despite disappointing hopeful supporters – picked up dozens of seats, an outcome that has left some insiders pleased with the party’s performance.

“To give the Conservative party credit, they’ve built their base to a historic level,” Teneycke said. “But in doing so, they may have moved the goalposts further away if the result of that is the collapse of the NDP.”

Analyst and veteran Liberal political advisor Scott Reid said Carney deserves much credit as well for resuscitating a party that was “dead and buried, covered in topsoil and leaves” by the time of Trudeau’s departure.

“Someone who never ran for elected office, never held elected office, walked in and has pulled off something that is astonishing and unseen before in electoral history in Canada,” Reid told CTV News.

With files from CTV News Ottawa Digital Multi-Skilled Journalist William Eltherington

[Forrest Gump]

I heard the boundaries changed some in Poilievre's riding, and a lot of new home construction, with many 1st and 2nd generation immigrants moving there, who tend to vote liberal. There was a recent story, and I've heard this before, that immigrants are told, not sure by who, that they should vote liberal. I can actually testify to this being true. I just found out recently from my step mother, that my father, who is no longer with us, in 1959 when came to Quebec, was also recommended to vote liberal. So it seems the immigration intimidation tactics is a long standing liberal tradition.

[Rubus_Leucodermis]

I heard the boundaries changed some in Poilievre's riding, and a lot of new home construction, with many 1st and 2nd generation immigrants moving there, who tend to vote liberal. There was a recent story, and I've heard this before, that immigrants are told, not sure by who, that they should vote liberal. I can actually testify to this being true. I just found out recently from my step mother, that my father, who is no longer with us, in 1959 when came to Quebec, was also recommended to vote liberal. So it seems the immigration intimidation tactics is a long standing liberal tradition.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!

Except lots of immigrant-heavy ridings in Surrey went blue this time. Have a problem with that?

Thought not.

[HarrisonSasquatchWx]

Was it the older generation that mainly voted liberal? Because it seems like everyone over 50 supported them.

Nope l'm 65 Weedo and voted for the blue dude in my riding only because Mark Strahl has been here for years and has done a decent job. What it is l have no idea but nobody wants to change what works out here in the central valley.