I’m busy for a while this morning – so I’ll open this thread for comments, reader tips and day after election discussion.
Update: Jeremy Harrison is on radio right now over the results in the northern riding of Desnethe – Missinippi – Churchill River
– He was ahead by 200 votes until the last ballot box came in and lo and behold – it had 300 votes for the LIberals. That poll that put Liberal candidate over the top did not came in until 3 hours after the polls had closed
– some reserves had over 100% turnout
– there was campaign literature in the polling stations, and polling booths
– Liberal threats to aboriginal voters that they would not recieve cheques
There is going to be an official request for an investigation.
more: Advance Poll irregularities: poll clerks who refused to allow secret votes, who accompanied voters into the booths.
Footnote: I heard a report last night that the NDP brought a busload of students into a rural poll in Vanscoy and had them all signed in to vote.
Request: Can someone forward the poll results from Desnethe – Missinippi – Churchill River including (a) the number and (b) the sequences of which polls were tabulated first and how the final poll broke so dramatically from a pattern that had remained fairly consistant all evening, perhaps we can shed more light on this.
Bitter sweet is all I can say.
Very disappointed this morning, one consolation being we finally got rid of Dithers. How the hell did Ignatieff, Goodale, Stronach et al win? How incredibly stupid can people be?
Good morning, and welcome to a Conservative minority government.
At the time of this writing (08:40 MST), the liberal.ca website is not updated from January 23rd (what a bunch of jokers).
The Conservative website conservative.ca has Prime Minister Harper on it already.
Let’s hope, for the sake of this country, that the the opposition parties can cooperate with the Conservatives, passing policy for the the good and benefit of ALL Canadians, not just the select few that Paul Martian pandered to.
I still cannot believe that as many Canadians voted for the Lieberals as they did.
At least that shrill, token Lieberal, Landslide Annie, was given the boot in Edmonton centre, and the Conservatives given a sweep, just to prove a point to the Lieberals, that we do not subscribe to PM’s “vision.
the mad redneck (though, less mad than yesterday)
Harper will have to use every savvy bone in his body to thread this needle in the House.
If he manages to set the agenda and achieve a few of his promises, he will stand to gain seats if the remaining parties try to bring down his government within the next two years.
Interesting issue with the election coverage last night. For some reason, CBC Newsworld in Vancouver was showing the results for the Maritimes while the polls were still open on the coast. The regular CBC had the countdown show on but meanwhile I was watching Brison and Mackay doing their interviews and the results were all there.
No need to blog to get election results early with the CBC 🙂
Well, a win is a win, is a win. It would have been nice to see a bigger minority but we’ll take what we have. Congratulations to Stephen Harper and all his consevative members of parliment.
In Manitoba, we have them down to two seat and oh joy of joys, Reg Alcock is not one of them. I Listened to him on CKY this morning saying he might have taken his riding a little two litely. since he ownly campaigned there two nights….DUHHHH, Really Reg…duhhhh youuuuuu thinkkkkkkkkk. That and your pompus, arrogant, self-rightous, holier then thou attitiude.
Harper made an excellent speech last night.
Looks like the Bloc have the balance of power. There is therefore hope that house cleaning will progress, and scandal investigations will continue to conclusion.
It will be nice to see children once again at 24 sussex dr.
Update: 08:49 MST
The Lieberals have updated their website, with former PM PM with his mug, in the past tense of his so-called leadership.
All I can say is, I’m glad he’s done.
Kate, nothing like leaving the barn door open eh…fox and hen houses, etc 😉
Yeah, how did Ignatieff, Goodale, Stronach get back in? Now I know where all those student votes went – kidding, but one wonders aloud if another Edmonton Centre type voter list is floating around.
I do hope Mr. Harper cleans house, but he’ll have to tread lightly, Liberals are thin skinned and squeak a lot.
cheers
tom
This is good, we must take any victory with pride. We finally have a change in leadership. Prime Minister Harper and team will have their work cut out. If we look at how he ran his campaign, I believe that there will be nothing but positive changes. The people of Canada WILL get to see our man at work. It will be quite comical with BS & SB sitting once again in the opposition.
This result is almost as stable as a majority. The Liberal Party will be in no condition to go to the polls for quite some time. Aside from sorting things out between different factions and finding a new leader they’ll need to deal with their creditors. Accordingly they should be relied upon to vote in whatever fashion required to prevent an election.
Having now calmed down, I’m feeling better about the modest Tory win.
Our society has been fed Liberalism for years by the usual suspects and the population feels fat, happy and unthreatened by external dark forces. In these circumstances, I believe Stephen Harper did what was necessary for the best possible result. He must now govern in such a way as to show the benefits of conservative leadership.
Coincidentally, current odds are that an external threat will appear shortly whereby Canadians will be grateful for Tory governance. Some combination of oil / terror / Iranian upheaval may provide a different focus and accelerate acceptance of the Conservatives. I say this because the Europeans will suddenly be in favour of a war over oil and the leftists will be shown for what they are.
“Bitter sweet is all I can say.” Hey, that about sums it up for me too. Locally our incumbent Dave built up his lead over the NDP from 124 last time to 3,506 over the NDP this time. As John Gormley points out, NDP gets 24% of the popular vote here in Sask. with zero seats while the Libs get 22 % and 2 seats. That doesn’t seem right. Maybe it’s time to push for proportional representation versus first past the post,eh? And, 65% voter turnout is not good enough.
The entire national media is insisting that the Conservatives are not an URBAN party, that they must pander to Toronto and Montreal. Well, on behalf of Edmonton, Calagary, Saskatoon, St. John’s, Kelowna, Kamloops, Ottawa etc. etc., fuck you very much. The NDP and Libs were fucking decimated in Edmonton and Calgary, so maybe they should be the ones sucking up.
Toronto and Vancouver are the odd ones out, not in step with the rest of the country. They seem, to many across this country, a little EXTREME, or even SCARY.
Mr. C.J. is absolutely right. We’ll have a de facto Conservative-Liberal coalition. Libs too broke, divided and leaderless to dare an election. I’m delighted (and I live in Toronto)
On Michael Coren’s show last night, the panel spoke as if the Liberals would be almost eliminated, so not everyone in the GTO area thought the Liberals had much of a chance. At the end everyone seemed to be writing them off so the question is what happened?
Obviously the fear factor was the deciding factor, because it certainly wasn’t a knowledge of the issues.
My friend – a 50 yr old man – rec’d a mass mailing from a young relative yesterday morning which listed the reasons for not voting Conservative. At the top of the list was ‘abortion’.
God bless us! ..and Stephen.
The abortion angle did save the Liberals a lot of votes. Amazing that the public believed that nonsense. The Conservative movement is doomed in this backward country.
jhuck…they’re talking about real cities, not crossroads nowhere. And I live in Kamloops.
As far as the election, Canadians embraced anti-corruption, not the Consevatives. Leftist parties have the biggest share of votes.
Quebec just saved Canada. Had the ten CPC seats in Quebec gone Liberal the final seat count would’ve been Lib 113 CPC 114 and you can bet your bottom dollar Martin would’ve tried to remain in power in that scenario.
Have faith in our boy Stevie, he’s earned it. From graduate student to prime minister in twenty years; not too shabby.
JHuck, thanks for pointing that out! Calgary is actually a BIGGER city than Vancouver! The Greater Vancouver area is larger than Calgary, but lots of Conservatives got voted into the Greater Vancouver area, just not Vancouver proper. Calgary and Edmonton are major cities in Canada and the fact that they wiped Libs off the map barely gets mentioned. Then others try to point out that CPC didn’t elect anyone in PEI and Libs didn’t elect anyone in AB. Excuse me? There’s more people in Southeast Calgary than there are in the whole PROVINCE of PEI. PEI is overrepresented with the number of seats they have. I love PEI, but trying to compare the 2 provinces is absolutely ridiculous. The Libs got wiped out of a major, powerful province. The CPC could afford to never set foot in PEI (if they wanted).
Libs too broke, divided and leaderless to dare an election.
Let’s not forget the 30+ ongoing criminal investigations. They will haunt the Liberals for some time to come.
God bless Canada. And, last night, He sure did.
Some close calls….but Southern Ontario remains red. The new Government can either largely ignore Toronto and the GTA or suprise everyone by working with the city and surrounding municipalities and begin the process of converting Liberals & NDP’ers to a saner, better future……….rather like the Richard Nixon approach to China in the 1970’s
first blush on the results
Big City folks in Van & Toronto shut out of gevernment/cabinet and POWER. This is a good thing.
Federalism is alive in Quebec and the Bloc took some really good body blows.
Best of all the Tories can get their hands on the books, can investigate where the $9 billion in “Off Book Foundations” funding really went. And the missing $40 million. And the $2Billion gun registry scam. And on and on
WE HAVE THE BOOKS NOW 🙂
The Tories can inflict a death by a thousand cuts while the Liberals fight their civil war.
And the Tories can fire the head of elections Canada ” or as I call it Liberal Election Fraud Canada”
It is disapointing but there are some fun times ahead.
Go slow & steady, Stephen. Deliver the goods – honest, pragmatic government and find the lost money.
I agree too with Mr. Mullan. It seems the press is really touting this “unstable” situation, and if they had prefixed that with “it’ll eventually be”, they’d then be right.
It’s going to take at least 6 months for the libs to vote in a new leader, quite possibly longer. They’re also going to have to have a policy convention, and re-group, re-rally the troops. Plus there’s the issue of the liberal debt — given the $1.75 per vote, per year, it makes sense for them to wait a while.
That being said, Stephen Harper would do quite well for himself to push through the more contentious parts of his agenda first — the first 6 months the libs won’t be blocking anything, once they get a new leader, all bets are off.
Ohh, and apparently that independant from Quebec is a shock rock radio announcer. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.
— Steve
The minority means the Tories will run the country but with training wheels on.Once the country sees that Harper can do the job, he will get to take them off.Did the Libs really gain seats in BC? Whats up with that?
My sentiments are with most of the above commenters. This should be interesting to see how things shape up. My advice to the CPC and PMSH is to move some positive legislation through first, as in platform points before setting the auditing hounds loose. Although it needs to be done and done right, siccing the Auditor General and RCMP on the corruption right away will only be seen by the MSM (and the Canadian flock) as revenge and the start of a “hidden” agenda.
Oh yeah, I hope Kate’s hangover isn’t too bad ;-)>
The mafia rules in Toronto as usual. It’s time to double the size of the RCMP, after cleaning it out of course.
The ironic thing about abortion being the divisive issue,especially in Hogtown,is that half the Liberal caucus is against abortion,but the media fail to ask the question point-blank,the way they did when Kevin Newman blind-sided Stephen Harper.
Once again,the “unbiased MSM” played a huge role in preventing the total annihilation of the Liberals.
Although it needs to be done and done right, siccing the Auditor General and RCMP on the corruption right away will only be seen by the MSM (and the Canadian flock) as revenge and the start of a “hidden” agenda.
The first order of business is the accountibility act. That, by definition, means there will be accountibility by wrongdoers.
Conservatives need only get the act passed, from there it takes on a life of it’s own:)
God bless Canada.
I noticed that the Marxist-Leninists really kicked the Communists’ ass, does this mean that their leader has to resign? Maybee a new party for Comrade Martin to lead?
Well, I know it is bittersweet for some of you, but you can look on the bright side. For the first time in nearly 13 years, there is not a Liberal as Prime Minister. I’d say that in reality that is a great deal of progress.
We told you. (The following is the last gloat: The Librano$ are dead.)
Down with socialism.
Long live freedom and democracy.
God bless Stephen Harper. >>>
Excerpt:
As important is Ontario�s turn — again tentative, cautious, but further than in many years — towards the Conservatives, and the West. Indeed, this election is further evidence of an important trend: Ontario, outside Toronto at any rate, is joining the West. The democratic values and hardy optimism that are hallmarks of the West�s political culture have worked their way into the Ontario psyche. More and more, the West�s interests and values are also Ontario�s.
For Stephen Harper, this is a remarkable personal triumph. The man who many people said could not win the race for Canadian Alliance leader, who could never reunite the warring right-wing parties, who could not win the leadership of the united Conservative party, and who most certainly would never, ever become Prime Minister, now stands on the very brink of power.
Who would have guessed that this cold-eyed ideologue would show such a flair for consensus-building; that the apostle of the �firewall� would put together the most genuinely national party in the country. And here�s another irony: though he comes to power preaching the virtues of a looser federation, with a less intrusive federal government, Mr. Harper may succeed where others failed in building a stronger sense of national unity. >>>
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A big let down last night, not with Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party, but with Canada and Canadians in general.
1.) The fact that Paul Martin garnered the support he did after the proven lies and corruption against the very people who then went to the polls, bent over, made their X and said it feels good, PLEASE DO IT TO ME AGAIN!
2.) That the people of this country could vote for the status quo, knowingly embracing the fear mongering of a desparate prime minister who would stoop to any length to maintain power rather than take a leap of faith and embracing a platform of hope and future promised by the Conservatives.
3.) The mainstream media trying to coerce me and the people of Canada toward a political message of their choosing, rather than presenting the details that I need to make an informed decision.
4.) The acceptance by almost 14 million of this great country that the only ideas that warrant merit are those of a few power hungry individuals that fear change, that tolerance for others political bias is not acceptable and indeed not so called ‘Canadian Values’; where Centre Right can be alluded to be Hitler or Pinnochet.
What I did like about this election is that all of you fine people in the BLOG-O-SHPERE have made incontrovertable and indelible change to how information will be distributed in future. As an individual I have been engaged and riveted to both the BLOGs and the MSM…. you people rock. You offered me more unfettered information than any MSM outlet could or would. When you expressed opinion I knew it was yours but more so I knew that your opinion was that and you left it to me to agree or disagree. WOW! this is the discourse of the future…
Let’s move forward…
NL
Just prior to the election several bloggers were musing about what they would do once the Libs were out and the CPC gets in – I would suggest that their (bloggers) role is going to be more important than ever. If you want to build on this modest win, do not become complacent. This is now the time to build on what has (hopefully) only just begun. Anyone who underestimates the Liberal machine is a fool and they will attempt to bounce back quickly. Now is the time to drive the wooden stake even deeper into their heart – do not let them get back on their feet.
Today is the dawning of a new era in the political landscape of Canada. Although Mr. Harper did not achieve a majority he was able to elect reperesentatives in all regions in the country. This demonstrates that there are some open minded people who have been able to escape the powerfull brainwashing of the Liberal Machine and left leaning media in this country.This shows that there are people out there who can see through the spin and get to the facts and make up their own minds “based on the facts.The Liberal story has consisted of too many lies and flip flops . Mr. Harper comes across as an honest man because he is telling the truth. With truth comes consistancy because all you have to do is state the facts and tell the truth. When people are lying they have to remember what lie they told the last time. It is also more difficult because lies are very often implausible. This was exemplified in the Gomery commission. It is totally implausible that Mr. Martin had no knowledge of what was going on. The Canadian people recognized this fact. The unfortunate trend we are seeing in this country is that more and more people in this country are getting a free ride on the backs of fewer and fewer real net taxpayers. At some point these people will cry Uncle if the abuse does not cease. We can not continue to cut the limbs off the real wealth creators of this country or this group of people who truely create the wealth and prosperity in this county will curl up and die. We now have a chance to see real change in Canada because I think Mr. Harper recognizes the real wealth creators in this county and will do his best to unleash them from the bloated government machine that his been doing it’s best to choke them. The thing that the Liberal party fears the most is prosperity outside of it’s own elite circle. Prosperous people do not look to government for handouts . They want to stand on their own 2 feet. As my Late father stated. “Liberal do redistribute wealth they distribute poverty.” It is clear to see because in the past years of Liberal rule more and more people rely on government for their livelyhood. You can not reverse this by doing more of the same . You have to go in a totally different direction. You have to empower people by fostering financial independence so they can hold their heads up high. Last night was a victory for the ordinary working people of Canada.
It’s embarassing that we had what is arguably the most corrupt government in the history of the country and they ran a campaign that was amature at best and filled with mistakes and yet they win over 100 seats. What gives?
um bullet we have them down to 3 seats in MB they lost wpg south and gained churchill.
Darn!
Something to do with the NDP splitting their vote among people who do and don’t support homosexual marriages up north.
A beginning for a better Canada. I noticed that the social engineers at C.B.C. have not figured out that the Liberals had a defeat. They keep making the point that Mr Harper did not make gains
in the 3 big cities. They need to ask WHY the “cult of unhappiness” (ndp) and the liberals don’t do well outside these cities. Could it be
that a moral value system is still alive and well
outside of, but not in Vancouver,Toronto and Montreal? …and why that is so!
I want to thank you Kate for your blog. A great source of information and I think that you have made a difference in this election. Well done.
Paul
Here’s a question…
Where can I find a map of Canada showing the colours of the election results? I’ve been looking but the media seems to be relunctant to show most of Canada under Tory blue.
I watched Prime Minister Harper take a minority
government the pundits were saying “how can he
run the country with such a low minority” “How
can he manage to get the issues he wants changed
with such a small minority” and on and on, the
negative spin seeming to be he cannot run the
government with so much opposition.
Then I watched Prime Minister Harper speak and
he turned the negative into positive thinking on
all the ideas for change the conservative party has told us about.
The speech was terrific, the view of each
negative remark was turned around to become a
positive.
He will be in a tough position, no doubt about
that, but he is a uniter, a man with patience
and perseverce and that is exactly what Canada
needs. Given enough time he and his party can
show the world Canada is still a great country.
He took the best route in his speech. We can
make changes for the good of Canada and made
the fact the conservatives are not planning
a “west only” scenario, but a united country
future for us is what is needed.
From a Yankee: Congratulations, Canada! You have just done, in Mark Steyn’s words, “a necessary act of political hygeine”. 🙂
To those disappointed by the size of the Conservative win, I can only say the following. The Conservatives need to continue their successful grass-roots building. Harper and the Party have done a brilliant job thus far. Hopefully, this will continue.
Equally important, when Prime Minister Harper and his Justice Minister (NICE ring to that, eh? 🙂 unleash the forensic accountants and investigators on the Canadian government’s books, the tip of the iceberg that is Adscam will pale in comparison with what’s found.
(That, BTW, is not just my opinion but that of a number of Canadian friends, plus what some Canadian journalists and bloggers are saying. certainly, the Grits’ history bears that out.)
There should be enough there to complete the destruction of the “rotten to the core” Liberal Party.
Congrats to Harper. His minority is weak, but so is the Liberals. Neither they nor the Bloc wish to have another election. I think they should rule the first year as if they have a majority and put most of their platform through. I doubt it will be voted down. If he has to water it down to get Lib, Bloc, and dipper votes he will look bad. Gay marriage is here to stay (not enough votes). The GST, childcare, accountability bills should pass. After one year all bets are off though. The Libs may want an election then with their new leader.
After twelve years of the Liberals buying their way to power, I think you’ve done about as well as can be expected. As a Yank with deep family roots in Canada, who follows Canadian politics and has an understanding of parliamentary democracy; I think that the Conservatives have been given the opportunity to show that they are not “scary”, not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party(US)and that they embrace the best interests of all Canadians.
That being said it looks as if they will be facing a opposition party that is flat broke and who has had their check (cheque?) writing privileges suspended. They won’t be in a position to buy their friends anymore.
I viscerally, agree with Conan the Barbarian’s mission statement: “Slay your enemy. Scatter his flocks. Listen to the lamentations of his women.” But, my days as a war chief also taught me that sometimes it’s better to ignore the braves howling for scalps and coup. Set some investigations in motion, let the legal system work, reward the righteous, punish the guilty and govern pragmatically. In a more modern context; “You can do everything with bayonets except sit on them.”
Conservatism is a hard nut for some people to chew. It says; be strong in yourself. It says; take responsibility for yourself and others. It says forgo some jam today so that you can have jam next week. It also says that you have to work for both the bread and the jam. And, it says; don’t eat the seed corn.
To some these concepts are not only foreign but laughable. It is certainly not fashionable but, I tend to think of this as a mission in which many of our fellow citizens, on both sides of our common border; need to be led out of the darkness and into the light.
In Steven Harper you guys are fortunate indeed. He is a modest man, a policy wonk and a former geek who has had to learn politics but who will never be entirely comfortable in a political setting. He also has a wicked sense of humour; a characteristic he seems to share with many Canadians; our Kate for example. It’s no mistake that so many of our best loved comedians have come from Canada. He is a man for your time.
I have also done some research on some of your Conservative MP’s. They are a stellar group of people. Just look, for example, at the background and record of Kate’s MP, Carol Skelton. This is a very, grounded, solid and talented woman who can still manage to smile hugely while helping to mount a campaign sign into frozen ground. You’ve got a bunch of those kind of people and you may not know just how lucky your are. But, then hard workers usually seem lucky to those that have not ever really worked.
Great day for you all and my best to you. We might want to talk and walk a little softly around here today. Kate may have a little hangover.
How far we have come in such a short time!
A little over 2 years ago Paul Martin’s polling results are so high that the MSM are gushing about how he might get the largest majority in the history of Canada. Stephen Harper is portrayed as an uncharismatic policy wonk faced with the unenviable task of leading an unruly patchwork of MP’s in the newly formed Conservative Party. Certainly he is destined to be a footnote in history.
Two years later Stephen Harper is Prime Minister of Canada having run on a platform based on solid conservative principles. Paul Martin announces his retirement from politics.
How can the MSM discribe this as anything other than a total vindication for Stephen Harper? Sure a majority would have been better, but when you consider how far this remarkable man has taken us in the past two years, aren’t you excited about where he’ll lead us to in the next few?
May the MSM and his political opponents spend the next decade underestimating Prime Minister Harper.
Kate, Regarding the 700,000 votes that CBC and David Susuki went off with?????
This breaksdown to 2200 extra votes in 308 ridings!
I have a question: Is there not a way that we could do a on-line petition regarding Elections Canada?
Boy, there is a lot of pissed off people here. I emailed your story to a few friends (most were not that political involved, and their pissed.
This need to changed that no official ballot ever goes “a stray” again. This is another unaccountablity flaw of the Liberal’s & CBC.
One thought to ponder: Two more years, maybe Lloyd Roberts, Don Newman, Peter Mansbridge, Mike Duffy will be put out to pasture. After all a couple of these guys have covered the last 13 elections! Old and tired!
Just remember that the next couple of years every single conservative faux-pas and mis-intrepretable comment will be ruthlessly dissected for weeks on the evening news.
The investigations into former Liberals will be viewed as old, old, news not worthy and relevant of prime time. Complex, boring, not relevant tot he new Liberals.
Conservative political initiatives will be cast as too american, too socially (extreme) conservative, pandering to (conservative) minorities, blah, blah, blah…
The bureaucracy will constantly and anonymously feed little dribs and drabs of quasi-demi-sorta- scandals which will get endless news time.
NGO’s and various pressure groups of gay, aborignal, immigrant, religious nature etc….will get lots of time to say, every night, how bad the Conservatives are, well sorta, if you compare them to heaven ™.
It’s going to be hell.
Then just when you want to scream, another election with NEW! Shiney! Improved! Now Scandal FREE! Liberals will occur. In TIME TO SAVE CANADA!
If you can’t win an election majority when your opposition has no platform, has corruption scandals so large they occlude the sun, and they run a tone deaf and incompetent campaign riven by internal fighting…
You can’t win.
Good luck anyway!
As an Albertan I’m very pleased that the Conservatives won, I’m somewhat upset at the numbers. I believe it will be difficult for Steven Harper to move forward with his agenda of good old “common sense”. I can only hope that in the short term he will push ahead with his top 5 proposals and show those idiots in Vancouver, Toronto and the Maritimes that common sense is a good thing. I was watching Canada AM this morning and Jeff was in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia asking people what they thought of the results. I couldn’t believe that bunch of whiners, going on about being a have not province and Steven Harper doesn’t like them…etc…etc…some idiotic woman was saying that they had already closed 15 daycare centers! My God, people of Canada pull your head out of your ass and start to pay attention!!! No wonder the Liberals are allowed to get away with the things they do. I tend to give people to much credit that they pay attention to the world around them, I guess not and I find that very disappointing. Electing Belinda Stronach speaks loudly of the mind set in Ontario……it remains true, probably now more than ever, that you’re known by the company you keep. Those that voted Liberal will hopefully someday look in the mirror and see what is really looking back, someone who condones dishonest, selfish, lying, self serving politicians. If that truth ever dawns upon the great unwashed in this country then we might get somewhere. I will try and remain optimitsic that in the end the Conservatives will end up with a majority and get this country back on track
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Southern Ontario didn’t do Liberal – the GTA did. Let’s not perpetrate the fiction any longer.
With the exception of Kingston, the nearest Grit riding to me would take more than 2 hours to get to.
I live in a cluster of 4 ridings that were Tory holds – all exceeding 50% of the vote.
Ontario is not a monolith, and the future of Conservatism depends on noticing these differences, and building on what is a stronger base than anyone realizes.