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The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.
Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.
Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.
Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.
Canada had the worst performance per capita in the entire OECD since the Liberals took over, beating only Luxembourg. Which now theres a doctor shortage, an extreme housing shortage, food bank usage is up dramatically; all after we took on a lot of debt that we now pay interest on. Can you say the cons would have been worse than all that?
Absolutely… if it had been up to Harper (conservative PM for those who don’t know), we would have crashed irreparably during the housing market crash of 2008… Not only was he advocating deregulation of banks for a full decade before the debacle (trying to mimic the USA as always) but even months before the collapse he was still drumming the “I see no problem here” just to pivot to “I have never been more worried about the state of the Canadian economy” in the span of 3 months… and this is the “Economist PM” the cons sold us
Think of all this but with institutionalized hatred towards LGBT ppl, anti-vaxx sentiment and dog whistles of facism. We know both parties are a different side of the same coin. Only one of those parties is embracing fascist rhetoric and populism.
Yes.