Category: 2019 Federal Election

How It Started

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Aaaaand, how it’s going.

@JesseBrown bonus tweet!

The decimation of 70 Metroland newspapers is a tragedy, but it should have also brought opportunity. When local papers die, space opens for companies like Village Media to invest in communities and start digital news sites.

But they’ve frozen all new launches due to Bill C-18.

Follow The Bouncing Liar

2019 Federal Election Basic Dictatorship Chinada Shiny Pony 27 Comments

Vancouver Sun, Nov.20, 2022 – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday he has never been briefed that any candidates in the 2019 federal election may have been influenced by financing from the Chinese government.

Global News, Dec 13, 2022 – These CSIS investigations were summarized in memos and briefs that started in January 2022, Global reported last month, and intelligence sources said they contained an allegation that China’s Toronto consulate covertly funded an interference network that included political staffers and at least 11 election candidates. Those sources also said that this information was provided to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several ministers.

Just Trudeau, Dec.14, 22 – “We have obviously been aware for a long time that foreign interference is a real thing.”

No wonder Singh is looking for an escape route.

Margin Of Fraud

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CBC;

Elections Canada says it has identified roughly 3,500 cases of people who voted in 2019’s federal election where there was conflicting evidence about their citizenship, CBC News has learned.
 
But almost a year after Canadians headed to the polls, the agency says it’s still trying to determine how many of those cases — if any — involved non-Canadian citizens casting ballots.
 
A fear of foreign nationals or permanent residents taking advantage of Canada’s honour system and voting illegally was one of the most common themes Elections Canada documented while monitoring social media in the lead-up to the Oct. 21 election, according to CBC’s analysis of the agency’s internal documents. Some people called on the agency to require voters to show proof of citizenship at the polls, such as a passport.

CBC writes several more paragraphs assuring us that those fears are unfounded and Liberalsplaining how voter ID is bad.

Shiny Marquis De Blackface

2019 Federal Election Political Animal Shiny Pony Western Separatism 80 Comments

Has appointed his new cabinet. (link fixed)
 
Of note: Climate Barbie has been demoted to Minister of Bike Lanes, with Jonathan Wilkinson taking that portfolio.

Saskatoon-raised Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson, a former advisor to Premier Roy Romanow and leader of the Saskatchewan Young New Democrats, has been named federal environment minister.
 
Wilkinson was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015, representing the riding of North Vancouver.

Plus gun grabber Bill Blair takes over the Gun Grabbing Portfolio.

So, we’re doomed. Thread open.

Trudeau’s Hollow Victory

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Conrad Black sums up the recent election:

In fact, Canada’s greatest problems are capital flows and national unity. There is a torrid drain of investment capital in Canada, as the world stays away and Canadians invest capital elsewhere. Under-appreciation of Canadian federalism will not take long to emerge in Quebec and Alberta. By far the strongest performance by a party leader on election night was from the Bloc Québécois’ Yves-François Blanchet. He had the same stature, mannerisms, haircut, glasses and witty but crisp and direct way of formulating the complexities of Quebec’s status as premier Daniel Johnson (1966-1968), whose slogan was “equality or independence.” Blanchet came from nowhere and almost won more votes than the Trudeau Liberals. (Only twice before has the Bloc won more Quebec votes than the Liberals.) Blanchet expressed his reverence for René Lévesque, Quebec’s first separatist premier (1976-1985), but he is not advocating Lévesque’s “sovereignty-association;” he is advocating sovereignty.

Your Election Prediction Contest Thread (Bumped With Results)

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With the official mourning period drawing to a close, here are the results. The final seat tally (according to Global News):

LPC: 157
CPC: 121
NDP: 24
BQ: 32
GPC: 3
PPC: 0
Independent: 1

By my reckoning, the closest to come to an accurate prediction was “RL”

LPC:155
CPC:115
NDP:36
BQ:25
GPC:4
PPC:2
Independent:1

Congratulations and deepest sympathies, RL! A book will be out shortly.

Original post continues below.

338 seats in the House of Commons
170 seats needed for a majority

You can review the seats held at dissolution here.

To earn your chance at a free book from the SDA Free Book Library, enter your 2019 election seat distribution prediction in the comments, in the following format.

LPC:
CPC:
NDP:
BQ:
GPC:
PPC:
Independent:

Please refrain from making additional commentary (or mucking up the format) — there will be an open thread provided for that. Contest closes Monday morning at 12:01am

Over A Barrel (Documentary)

2019 Federal Election Ethical Energy 47 Comments

Via email, from ‘Snagglepuss’

I know that several of you have read an article or two about this video, but I don’t know how many of you actually have had the opportunity to watch the video itself? Here it is, if you wish to watch it? With all the $$ involved, you would think that Ms. Krause would have been sued to death for presenting this info and saying the things that she says in the video, if it were not factually correct?
 
If you watch until the end you will see just how much influence is happening even in our current election.

Available for free viewing until October 31.

Coulda Had Max

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Found in passing.

Haven’t checked it for myself, but I suspect others already are.

Update: And so it begins.

2019 Election Results Thread

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We were storm-stayed in South Dakota last evening and so will likely be on the road still as results begin to come in. You’ll be in charge here unless Robert or one of the other guest bloggers has a chance to take over.

UPDATE: Projected Liberal Minority, with the BQ in the drivers seat and Singh riding shotgun. Singh in the driver’s seat.

Bring on our referendum.

The Rebel Election Desk is here. Be sure to chip in to support them.

A clunky election map at Macleans. (h/t clipe)

8:47pm Sask time and Filibuster Ralphie is running 600 votes behind Conservative Michael Kram.

LOL… it appears that Andrew Scheer is winning the popular vote.

Succinct.

So many issues left on the table. Vivian Krause spells it out.

Heh.

Coulda Had Max

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The Stupid Party;

Warren Kinsella's Daisy Group consulting firm was behind a social media campaign to put the People's Party of Canada (PPC) on the defensive and keep leader Maxime Bernier out of the federal leaders' debates, according to documents provided to CBC News.   The documents outline the work done by several employees of Daisy on behalf of an unnamed client. A source with knowledge of the project told CBC News that client was the Conservative Party of Canada.   The plan was first reported Friday night by the Globe and Mail.

Nice work, Andy.

You hired a Liberal to attack members of your base.

And then said Liberal lets it “leak”.

Quelle surprise!

Fucking moron.

Coulda Had Max

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John Robson nails it.

As Canada’s worst election ever staggers toward the finish line, a theme has finally emerged. Despite the best efforts of the party leaders to say nothing coherent or true at any point, we know what it’s about. Everyone is running against the Tories. Including the Tories. Makes you wonder what they’re so afraid of.
 
[…]
 
Bernier may be an imperfect human being and a flawed politician. It happens. But whatever his blemishes, his party exists because the Tories abandoned their beliefs and their base long before 2017 on every important conservative issue from free markets to traditional social values to strong national defence. Which brings me to the Tories, if I can catch them as they flee over the horizon.

Read the whole thing.

Related.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

2019 Federal Election Bill's Wife The Libranos You Might Be A Liberal 16 Comments

Former senior aide to Hillary Clinton and former Clinton Foundation advisor Justin Cooper was one of the organizers of an exclusive New York City fundraiser held for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of Canada, True North has learned.
 
According to a source, Cooper was involved in organizing the New York fundraiser for Trudeau’s re-election bid.
 
As Blacklock’s reported on Tuesday, the fundraising event for Liberal expatriates living in New York City was held on October 10 at an unknown address. While all political donations must be publicly disclosed, the deadline for reporting donors to Elections Canada is not until two months after the election.
 
[…]

 
Cooper is the notorious staffer who was responsible for setting up a private email for Clinton during her time as Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, which some say cost her the bid for the presidency. Clinton’s private server was registered to “Justin Cooper.”
 
According to reports at the time, Copper had “no security clearance and no particular expertise in safeguarding computers, according to three people briefed on the server setup.”

Small world.

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