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Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 9:48 pm
I'm sure we have a fair amount of you who live here. I did watch the MacLeans debates, which seem like a while back now. But I'm American. I am watching CBC's coverage, which seems kind of late on. I just caught the #CanadaVotes hashtag.
I do have family in Yaletown, Vancouver, BC. Not sure what riding they are in.
Any of you watching events unfold? How do you feel?
http://www.cbc.ca/includes/federalelecti...index.html
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:07 pm
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I'm watching.
Liberals are killing it.
Justin Trudeau (son of former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
will be the new Prime Minister of Canada.
He will form a Majority Government.
I wasn't going to be happy, regardless of who won;
I don't like the top three candidates.
Harper was awful, but I'm dismayed that Trudeau is in, and that he got a Majority,
but I would have been just as dismayed with Mulcair.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:21 pm
Still a pretty exciting show. Down here, the Dems and Republicans are, at this point, the only viable parties. Canada has more choices in this regard.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:28 pm
(October 19, 2015 at 10:21 pm)c172 Wrote: Still a pretty exciting show. Down here, the Dems and Republicans are, at this point, the only viable parties. Canada has more choices in this regard.
yes, it's a landmark election.
Stephen Harper is out of office after 10 years.
Harper was an Autocrat, silencing his own Environmental Scientists, to favour Albertan Oil,
and he is behind this Pacific Trade Agreement, economically unpopular with many Canadians,
and he is not a big supporter of LGBT,
and he is nonchalant about serious issues confronting First Nations.
But Trudeau panders to the Muslim community, is very young, and doesn't have much of an economic plan.
the NDP also panders to Muslim communities...but the NDP took a fearful drubbing.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:41 pm
(October 19, 2015 at 9:48 pm)c172 Wrote: I'm sure we have a fair amount of you who live here. I did watch the MacLeans debates, which seem like a while back now. But I'm American. I am watching CBC's coverage, which seems kind of late on. I just caught the #CanadaVotes hashtag.
I do have family in Yaletown, Vancouver, BC. Not sure what riding they are in.
Any of you watching events unfold? How do you feel?
http://www.cbc.ca/includes/federalelecti...index.html
Ahhhh, Vancouver Centre (MP Hedy Fry - LIB).
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:52 pm
(October 19, 2015 at 10:41 pm)c172 Wrote: (October 19, 2015 at 9:48 pm)c172 Wrote: I'm sure we have a fair amount of you who live here. I did watch the MacLeans debates, which seem like a while back now. But I'm American. I am watching CBC's coverage, which seems kind of late on. I just caught the #CanadaVotes hashtag.
I do have family in Yaletown, Vancouver, BC. Not sure what riding they are in.
Any of you watching events unfold? How do you feel?
http://www.cbc.ca/includes/federalelecti...index.html
Ahhhh, Vancouver Centre (MP Hedy Fry - LIB).
Thank you for taking an interest and posting this thread.
I have posted another thread....announcing Canada's new Prime Minister in the title.
I don't know if it will be noticed or not 
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 10:54 pm
Oops. Didn't mean to be redundant.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 11:29 pm
(October 19, 2015 at 10:07 pm)MTL Wrote: I'm watching.
Liberals are killing it.
Justin Trudeau (son of former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
will be the new Prime Minister of Canada.
He will form a Majority Government.
I wasn't going to be happy, regardless of who won;
I don't like the top three candidates.
Harper was awful, but I'm dismayed that Trudeau is in, and that he got a Majority,
but I would have been just as dismayed with Mulcair.
He was the best of a shitty bunch. Truth be told harper is crooked as fuxk and mulcair had an even worse platform then Trudeau's, eben if it was similar in most respects. But Trudeau voted for c51and I hated that.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 11:30 pm
(October 19, 2015 at 10:28 pm)MTL Wrote: (October 19, 2015 at 10:21 pm)c172 Wrote: Still a pretty exciting show. Down here, the Dems and Republicans are, at this point, the only viable parties. Canada has more choices in this regard.
yes, it's a landmark election.
Stephen Harper is out of office after 10 years.
Harper was an Autocrat, silencing his own Environmental Scientists, to favour Albertan Oil,
and he is behind this Pacific Trade Agreement, economically unpopular with many Canadians,
and he is not a big supporter of LGBT,
and he is nonchalant about serious issues confronting First Nations.
But Trudeau panders to the Muslim community, is very young, and doesn't have much of an economic plan.
the NDP also panders to Muslim communities...but the NDP took a fearful drubbing.
Not to mention. The damn constant corruption scandals.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Canada vote
October 19, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Mulcair is speaking on his concession.
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