Mark in Ottawa
10-22-2019, 11:42
As many of you know, we had a general election yesterday. The results were something of a shambles. The governing Liberal party lost a lot of seats in the House of Commons and lost their majority. The Conservatives won a lot of additional seats and had the biggest popular vote but since a large percentage of their votes were in the same locations, they did not win enough seats to obtain a majority and form a new government. The Liberals will therefore establish some form of coalition with the (socialist) New Democratic Party. This is the nightmare scenario as the Liberals will be in thrall to the New Democrats for support and we will move sharply to the left
As far as firearms issues are concerned, the Liberals made an election promise to ban military "assault rifles" (and yes, the really don't know what that means but it bought votes for them so why should they care)
In my own riding, we lost our very good candidate about 6 weeks ago to heart problems and his replacement was the fellow who lost the last election so its no surprise that the Liberal beat him by 18%.
Of some humour is that in our riding we also had two Communists running: one from the Communist Party of Canada got 99 votes and the other from the Marxist Leninist Party got 46 votes. This was out of about 60,000 votes cast. I assume that the Communist Party candidate just had more relatives than the Marxist Leninist.
With a bit of luck, the coalition will fall apart within two years and we can try again
As far as firearms issues are concerned, the Liberals made an election promise to ban military "assault rifles" (and yes, the really don't know what that means but it bought votes for them so why should they care)
In my own riding, we lost our very good candidate about 6 weeks ago to heart problems and his replacement was the fellow who lost the last election so its no surprise that the Liberal beat him by 18%.
Of some humour is that in our riding we also had two Communists running: one from the Communist Party of Canada got 99 votes and the other from the Marxist Leninist Party got 46 votes. This was out of about 60,000 votes cast. I assume that the Communist Party candidate just had more relatives than the Marxist Leninist.
With a bit of luck, the coalition will fall apart within two years and we can try again