They picked that riding for a reason. The Cons got 81.8% of the vote in the recent election in that riding.
I wish we had the requirement that you must LIVE in the riding you’re running for and have lived there the past 2 years at least. Should also have to live there the entire time in office as well.
Hilarious that a bunch of Albertans that hate Ottawa politicians are about to vote in an Ottawa politician.
Perfectly on brand, tbh.
They love freedom, but not for trans or gays.
They love their country, but they hate paying the taxes to support it.
They love democracy, but they hate when anybody else wins.
They hate tyranny, but they love to back traitors.
I’d love to see Albertans reject him as an “Ottawa elite parachute candidate”.
They won’t, of course, but a guy can dream…
Maybe shame the libertarians in that riding into presenting an independent candidate that would defeat Peter Rabbithair easily.
Because they’re not consistent. It’s not about anyone being an Ottawa politician, it’s just their tribalist victim complex.
Exactly, your MP is supposed to represent your local interest. If they don’t live there why the fuck would they care about you and your interests?
The last thing I would change is you only get paid the median wage of the people who you represent.
Truly a person of the people
It would encourage you to do a better job and try and lift your community to greater heights
That’s actually a decent idea. Imagine if Trump’s income was capped at $66k/year, the US median income. He might actually give a shit about income inequality and raising the minimum wage.
Nah, he’d just ramp up the “side hustle” grifting even more.
All the people that thought Poilievre would not continue as the opposition leader need a wake up call. You still don’t understand what you’re fighting against. Cult of personality is a major pillar of fascism, and loyalty (to the leader, not to the country) is the most valuable trait. Poilievre had a few humiliating defeats but he’s still gaining grounds for the CPC, and the conservative wave is still on it sway, bolder and with lots of resentments piled up.
Take this seriously. The enemy doesn’t have to be smart or competent, they just need to amass power. https://www.antihate.ca/40ways
What kind of calculus do you think the liberal party has done just now…. Let loser Polievre come back to show himself to be more of an obstructionist loser that he continues to be??? He’s going to block Carney’s agenda again just like they did during the last house sitting. Also Scheer is an absolute thumb head. Polievre is a coward and a hypocrite.
What kind of calculus do you think the liberal party has done just now
Carney’s response to the byelection question was basicailly “He can have his byelection if he wants. I’m too busy with more important things to waste time with silly partisan games”
Which makes sense. No need to hand the conservatives a "see the liberals are blocking democracy’ talking point.
Except everyone knows the cons will obstruct everything and blockade the work of parliament and committee work - that is who they are. I am really curious to see how the liberals under Carney combat that sort of filibustering that cons did for the past few years.
I didn’t expect him to voluntarily step down.
I expect the party to follow it’s own damn rules and have the leadership review that their party rules requires after a losing election.
Of course, they could still do that after he inevitably wins in one of the safest seats in the country.
Oh wow, that link is a great resource! I had no idea it existed. Gonna share that around my circles for sure.
what personality does pp have? he has the charisma of roadkill
It doesn’t matter. If you look around, most authoritarian leaders have no more charisma than him. Personality just means a fabricated persona, marketing and propaganda.
hmmm I don’t know about that, idiots think tRump is a business genius and do not seem to rally around any other bigot to the same extend
PP has a 3 line resume and no accomplishments to speak of. Marketing can do wonders but they’ll have an uphill battle selling thin air
If I just voted for someone and then they quit to allow someone else to run and I needed to go vote AGAIN just for some power play I would be fucking pissed. Hopefully these voters are as well.
poilievre is now a DEI hire exactly in the way the cons lie and misrepresent DEI hires
I hope he loses
I mean the other guy won by like 80%. I doubt he’s going to lose
They wanted the other guy. Voting 80% in favour for a guy only to have him tossed out by some rich prick might change some minds.
Conservative minds?
Maybe. But I bet they elect him. It’s the safest seat in the country.
Why did a lid suddenly appear on this bin in the second frame?
Most likely AI.
They don’t use lids in Ontario.
Something something safe space, something something inclusion, something something participation trophy.
Dude hasn’t had a real job, so having things handed to him like this is prob second nature for him.
A chance to take another seat from them. Heck, if he loses there, too, he might even try again!
He won’t lose in battle river.
If you don’t run, you have already lost the race.
Here is the 388Canada link to the riding.
See a lot of post just about the 81.8%(53,502) of votes, but the bigger thing is that it’s out of 81,123 electors so even if every other elector went to a single candidate plus another 10k swung from Conservative’s that would still not be enough.
Very descriptive quote from Wikipedia:
Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding.
They really wanted to make sure Monsieur Poil was safe.
Okay Battle River-Crowfoot, you know what to do
It’s exceptionally blue even for Alberta but who knows? I hope the liberal candidate calls Fanjoy for tips and starts TODAY. It’s not impossible.
You can sell it as their chance to be represented in the government. Beyond the practical benefits, people like to be on the winning team.
It’s never going to make up the difference here, but it would be funny just to see him to worse than the other guy.
We‘ll definitely keep an eye on this. You never know and yea even a couple of points down will be nice to see. People who think he’ll represent their local concerns are delusional. He probably didn’t even know where the riding is.
Can’t start today. Not until the byelection is called. Carney doesn’t have to call one for 6 months. And why should he? The voters there don’t want another election so soon. They just voted someone who abandoned their post!
Well he can talk to Fanjoy today. Carney said he’ll call it immediately if they want that. I think that’s a solid move. I like that he is a no bs guy and doesn’t play games. I don’t want a bye election. I think that’s garbage but if that’s the rules …
I would even take a further-right fuckhead, be they PPC or Independent, I just want to see Poilievre lose his seat a second time
Sure. Works for me as well.
The guy wasn’t an MP long enough to be eligible to the pension at 65 either, he’ll get what he put in back so that will be a nice cheque to keep him going for a bit (20% deduction for the MP’s pension).
Nauseating. Listening to Andrew Failure Scheer on Power & Politics rn and it’s abhorrent as is the entire con party of Poilievre fluffers as professional rim jobbers to fash.
Clearly you’ve not heard the new Ben Mulroney am radio show…
I never listen to that tool.
Nauseating. Fuck this fascist POS and his followers. A coward and a hypocrite.
