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Fiendish Thingy

(23,236 posts)
2. Mail in ballots won't be counted until tomorrow, so don't hold your breath waiting for results
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 04:53 PM
Sep 2021

Pre-COVID elections often provided results quickly after polls closed on the West coast but that’s likely not the case this year, with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mail in ballots expected.

The mail in ballots aren’t going to be counted until tomorrow at the earliest.

Bev54

(13,431 posts)
4. There is not really a large number of mail in ballots, I do not think they will hold up the
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 05:58 PM
Sep 2021

calling of the election, perhaps one or two ridings.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. They're seriously running a third party against Trudeau?
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 05:18 PM
Sep 2021

Why? All things considered, Justin Trudeau has been the leader other countries dream of.

Is a fringe created by a Conservative nefarious group pushing this insane oppo?


Please Canada, don't trade the good you have for the glorious promise of populism.

Bev54

(13,431 posts)
5. The Liberals and conservatives have been the main two federal parties
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 06:04 PM
Sep 2021

but NDP (New Democrat Party) has always been a third party with considerable support. We have always had more than 3 parties running in the elections, and this year along with the Green party we have the PPC, far right fascist party who last time I think got about 1% of the vote. The conservatives are very similar to your republican party and our liberal party is more centrist with a left lean and then NDP is more the progressive lefts.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
6. God please Canada. Look to the US when falling for the fringe.
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 07:11 PM
Sep 2021

They're on the fringe for a reason.
Look at what fringe Green Party Sinema did to upend the Dem agenda, once she ran & won by putting that D behind her name.

Fringe is fringe because they have a ideology of their own, not for all citizens considered.
Ask who they are beholden to, before signing on.

'It's our way or nothing.'
Their methids of advancement are betrayal & pre-scripted populist sloganeering.

It often results in a lopsided govt ripe for overthrow.

Don't do it.
(See USA TeaParty)




 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
8. Yes 👍 Need 170. Liberals are almost there.
Mon Sep 20, 2021, 11:17 PM
Sep 2021

I read a brief earlier, trying to understand how Canada's electoral system works, & they said to watch for BC. Not sure why tho. ??

Hold on dearly to your Liberal Party majority, Canada & Congrats!

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