Canadian Prime Minister Carney secures a majority government with special election wins

The Conservatives need to understand that if they want to win an election, they need the center. But they can't win over the center when they continue to flirt with the far-right. With Trudeau pulling the Liberal party further left, many moderates and centrists were starting to feel abandoned after Trudeau won the first election. The Conservatives had an opportunity to take the centrists and moderate voters when Maxime created the PPC targeting the far-right/alt-right. O'Toole largely lost because of the Covid lockdowns, not because he was unpopular. After that loss, the Conservatives were afraid of losing the far-right voters to the PPC, so they shifted further right by putting PP in charge. But by doing that, they closed the door on the majority of the center. Maxime has too big of an ego and is incapable of leading anything. Instead of just embracing the shift and looking to the center, the Conservatives decided to fight it. Eventually, some of those lost voters would have come back when they see how ineffective Maxime is. But this is all moot now that Carney brought the Liberals back to the center and the NDP being all but dead. Conservatives are in another identity crisis, but this time, they don't have the potential to shift closer to the center.

Pierre's only thing when he had the election on a silver platter was that he wasn't Justin Trudeau. Then Trudeau resigned, Mark Carney replaced him, and thats all it took to turn things around lol.

Hard to say he “stole” his policies. They are good policies. He agreed and put them into place. Politics should be more like this. Just because one party says something shouldn’t mean opposing parties have to disagree. I like that a good idea can be mutually agreed upon and put forward. It shows that our country is not divided and even opposing parties aren’t that far apart on most issues.

Stole? That’s called collaboration, crazy thought that maybe it doesn’t have to be one extreme or the other huh.

Harper is like Reagan. If you don't pay attention, it seemed like he did an ok job and they put on a decent appearance. But the deeper you look into it and dig in with research, you end up seeing they dug the ground out underneath the nation and lead to persistent economic and societal issues that still plague us today. Harper rolled back numerous environmental protections (and acted like Climate Change was a hoax), cut taxes for the rich/corporations (the ol' disaster of supposed trickle down economics), cut healthcare and public services funding, ran multiple non stop deficits every term and continued to keep raising the debt, privatized/deregulated various national resources (like oil) then sold them to foreign interests (namely the USA and China), ran with racist idealogy that would be the lesser proto-version predecessors that escalated and set the foundations to today's crazy nonsense that plagues the right (anti Muslim, mistreated Native Americans). Harper's economic policies led to the housing affordability crisis now in Canada.

Please run your bowel movements for US President. It’d probably stink less than what we have now.

Except the Timberwolves have fans.

but Trudeau fixed tha...... oh no wait he didn't cause f*** you and me.

Every election I wish we had ranked choice voting.

Why do you think social conservativism, imaginary friends, and capitalism aren’t joyfully wedded?

Ya, I'm generally pretty happy with his actions and don't regret my vote or anything. But if I had 5 mins to ask him questions those are what I would push him on. I think I know the answer for the first time home buyers stuff but I have to do more research into the capital gains stuff. The first time home buyers is to help keep up the price of houses while not hurting young people as much(I think the government should let them drop but I understand why they don't). And for the capital gains stuff from what I saw there was some research in the 80s that suggested it was better for the economy to have lower capital gains taxes but my trust in 80s economics is very low so I have to go looking for newer stuff.

I have to admit to not following the NDP convention or knowing anything about Avi, but then I learned he's married to Naomi Klein and I realized who they all are. I'll be interested to see where it goes.

For reasons entirely unrelated to the convention. The ANDP and the SNDP are just whining about lewis not wanting to build a pipeline.