visionary Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/20/us-canada-election-idUSKCN0SD17X20151020 Canada's Trudeau topples PM Harper in stunning election win Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. The Liberals seized a Parliamentary majority, an unprecedented turn in political fortunes that smashed the record for the number of seats gained from one election to the next. The Liberals had been a distant third place party in Parliament before this election. Harper conceded defeat, ending his government's nine-year run in power and the 56-year-old's brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism. Trudeau, 43, the photogenic son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, pledged to run a C$10 billion annual budget deficit for three years to invest in infrastructure and help stimulate Canada's anemic economic growth. This rattled financial markets ahead of the vote and the Canadian dollar weakened on news of his victory. Trudeau has said he will repair Canada's cool relations with the Obama administration, withdraw Canada from the combat mission against Islamic State militants in favor of humanitarian aid and training, and tackle climate change. Trudeau vaulted from third place to lead the polls in the final days of the campaign, overcoming Conservative attacks that he is too inexperienced to govern to return to the Prime Minister's residence in Ottawa where he grew up as a child. "When the time for change strikes, it's lethal," former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said in a television interview. "I ran and was successful because I wasn't Pierre Trudeau. Justin is successful because he isn't Stephen Harper." The Conservatives were projected to become the official opposition in Parliament, with the left-leaning New Democratic Party in third. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/liberal-party-takes-early-lead-canadian-elections-151020012408766.html Canada's opposition wins historic elections Justin Trudeau is set to become Canada's new prime minister after his Liberal Party surged ahead of the incumbent party, ending nearly a decade of Conservative Party rule. The 43-year-old Trudeau - the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, considered the father of modern Canada, led his party's stunning electoral performance in a federal election on Monday. Canada's major television networks projected a majority for the Liberals, ending the Conservatives' nine-year run in power and reflected a political shift away from the incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper's brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism. While the final vote count was not yet complete, Trudeau's Liberals were on track to win 174 of Parliament's 338 seats, according to Elections Canada. Early results on Monday showed the Liberals swept all 32 seats in the country's Atlantic provinces, doubling their popular support in the region, and scored well in key Ontario and Quebec provinces. Trudeau is on track to break the record for the biggest gain in seats in an election, which was previously held by the Conservatives, who added 111 seats in the 1984 election. It is the largest percentage increase in seats ever gained by a party in an election. The governing Conservatives held 13 of Atlantic Canada's 32 seats and the New Democratic Party held six when the election was called. Lot of talk of this on twitter. Canadians seem pretty excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 **** Harper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 So that's Britain and Canada (surprisingly) moving further left in their recent elections. USA up next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Read an article yesterday about how Canadians were really frustrated with how long the campaigns lasted this time. They had to endure 11 weeks of candidates, speeches, debates, and ads. 11 weeks! !! weeks1 Man, what would they do with the 111 week campaigns we have to wade through here in the US? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor703 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I'll be honest, I have no clue what goes on in Canada. All I can say is when I went to McDonald's in Ontario they had no idea what sweet tea was and after that I was ready to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 So that's Britain and Canada (surprisingly) moving further left in their recent elections. USA up next? Not if it's Hillary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Not if it's Hillary. I was thinking Bernie, but Hillary has been brought further left in the primary by Sanders and the liberal movement. She's a politician and will move with the public opinion. That's part of what makes people dislike her. Doesn't mean that her agenda is not a left leaning one, more so now than it would have been without this left turn we're experiencing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I was thinking Bernie, but Hillary has been brought further left in the primary by Sanders and the liberal movement. She's a politician and will move with the public opinion. That's part of what makes people dislike her. Doesn't mean that her agenda is not a left leaning one, more so now than it would have been without this left turn we're experiencing. I'm down with Bernie. He's a cool cat. Seems that many people around here see Hillary as a forgone conclusion that Hillary is the de facto nominee. I don't think she's electable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Hillary is about as left as Reagan was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonniey Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 So that's Britain and Canada (surprisingly) moving further left in their recent elections. USA up next? Britain???? You got that backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoodBits Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Britain???? You got that backwards. You're correct. My bad. I don't keep up with our friends across the sea much, but remembered reading about Corbyn and was thinking of his ascension to the head of the Labour Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 glad the niqab stunt backfired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Good to see glamor and youth back in power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 That and multiple reports of pre-marked ballots favoring Conservatives seems to have backfired on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 What a bunch of hosers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boobiemiles Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Legalize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 He might be able to legalize marijuana in Canada. It will be pretty amazing to have that right above us and may serve as a kick in the ass for some of our politicians to get on the legalization train as well. http://www.vox.com/2015/10/20/9573497/canada-marijuana-legalization-justin-trudeau With the Liberal Party's electoral victory in Canada, the US's northern neighbors could soon undertake an enormous change in drug policy: marijuana legalization. The policy was a big part of the Liberals' campaign: "We will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana. Canada's current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. It does not prevent young people from using marijuana and too many Canadians end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug." If marijuana were legalized in Canada, it would be a first among developed nations. In the US, four states and Washington, DC, have legalized pot, but it's still illegal at the federal level. The only other country to fully legalize marijuana is the tiny developing nation of Uruguay. And although some countries — the Netherlands and Spain, in particular — have relaxed enforcement of their marijuana laws, none in the developed world have outright legalized it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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