Can’t wait for 85%+ of my province to vote to further worsen all of our lives and increase the cost of living. Thanks Alberta.
As much as I feel bad about Alberta getting ignored and shafted by the larger provinces, this is one of the few times I think they deserve it.
The damn guy so many Albertans are voting for is blatantly stating that he’s going to take away Canadian rights, funnel public money to the rich, remove services, casually lie about pretty much every subject, and countless other problematic things that are so obvious if you spend even five seconds thinking about it. And this is after successfully voting in a premier that is getting sued left and right for illegal practices and corruption, destroying their public services, and constantly fighting public inquiries by making them private or the results classified.
Albertans (especially rural Albertans) so consistently vote against their best interests in favour of giving their entire province to big oil that returns nothing (not even jobs) to the people living there that their leaders have stopped trying to hide just how terrible they are and are trying to see how much they can get away with while boasting about it out loud.
I know not all Albertans are this bad (hell, I’m Ontarian and we just voted in Ford, the second worst premier in the country for pretty much the same exact reasons), but whenever I see so much blue on a province, it’s hard not to get annoyed.
BTW, Saskatchewan is just as bad here, though maybe not the premier stuff.
I am one of the ~15% that will not make a difference, I hear you
If you’d have told me even 4 months that there was a slight chance to beat PP, I’d have been ecstatic. I hope that his career (and the political feasibility of faschy candidates like him) implodes after tonight.
Currently losing his own riding. Jagmeet too, but both have few polls reporting.
I would find it amusing if the “Independent party” ended up taking Carleton (ie: more voters voted independent than PP).
[edit] Woohoo! Looks like Carleton is likely going to (LPC) Bruce Fanjoy despite the plethora of independents. PP loses his seat!
He’ll probably just replace a CPC somewhere else, but I’d love to see this as a signal that conservative Canadians don’t want populism or fascism.
That reminds me - what the heck is up with the candidates in Carlton? Who are all these independents?
There was an organized protest campaign run where a whole bunch of people ran in PP’s riding to bring visibility to the mishandling of electoral reform in Canada, specifically around ranked choice voting and proportional representation. Liberals ran on it in 2010 and then failed to do anything other than make a mess of moving away from first past the post .
