Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Aug 18, 2020 14:58:14 GMT
Canadian politics always appears quite scandal-ridden, until you realise that things blow up there quite a lot and people resign over actions that would often in this country either never get reported at all, would be seen as 'no big deal' or our politicians just don't resign and often insist they've done nothing wrong. NB that's not to say that Canada hasn't had some pretty awful scandals over the years.
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Post by European Lefty on Aug 18, 2020 15:04:12 GMT
So after 6 provincial/territorial/federal elections in 2019, 2020 looks set to be a rather dull electoral calendar. Only thing scheduled is a provincial election in Saskatchewan. And if current polling is anything to go by, it'll be a rather predictable result. New Brunswick will go to the polls in a snap election on 14 September. Standings in the legislature when it was dissolved Monday were 20 Progressive Conservatives, 20 Liberals, three Green MLAs, three People's Alliance MLAs and one independent. Two seats were vacant. Looks like the Liberals could be in for a bit of a bloodbath
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Post by peterl on Aug 18, 2020 15:50:50 GMT
So Canada can also manage to hold elections during the pandemic. At least the fourth country to hold elections since May, along with the US, Poland and France. We are being left behind.
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Post by Khunanup on Aug 18, 2020 16:03:47 GMT
New Brunswick will go to the polls in a snap election on 14 September. Standings in the legislature when it was dissolved Monday were 20 Progressive Conservatives, 20 Liberals, three Green MLAs, three People's Alliance MLAs and one independent. Two seats were vacant. Looks like the Liberals could be in for a bit of a bloodbath No polling since May though and it'll be interesting who gets the 'blame' for an election occuring while COVID-19 is live. From what I've seen so far, the Tories look a bit clumsy in their handling of this (though the premier has been popular up until now) so interesting to see what the first campaign poll says.
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Post by maxque on Aug 18, 2020 18:40:00 GMT
So after 6 provincial/territorial/federal elections in 2019, 2020 looks set to be a rather dull electoral calendar. Only thing scheduled is a provincial election in Saskatchewan. And if current polling is anything to go by, it'll be a rather predictable result. New Brunswick will go to the polls in a snap election on 14 September. Standings in the legislature when it was dissolved Monday were 20 Progressive Conservatives, 20 Liberals, three Green MLAs, three People's Alliance MLAs and one independent. Two seats were vacant. The Independent just has been selected as a Liberal candidate (for one of the vacant seats, which is usually Liberal).
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Aug 18, 2020 20:26:22 GMT
The Grits just can't help themselves can they?
(mind you, Trudeau was looking for a way to hang him out to dry before this)
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Post by MacShimidh on Aug 18, 2020 21:28:05 GMT
Trudeau has prorogued parliament as signs point to a winter federal election. Whoever gets elected as Conservative leader this Sunday is going to have an interesting time...
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Post by European Lefty on Aug 18, 2020 21:42:55 GMT
Trudeau has prorogued parliament as signs point to a winter federal election. Whoever gets elected as Conservative leader this Sunday is going to have an interesting time... The link just goes back to tis post again
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Post by MacShimidh on Aug 18, 2020 21:49:52 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Aug 19, 2020 8:42:45 GMT
"It's nothing like Harper's" he cried, unconvincingly.
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 19, 2020 11:26:02 GMT
Can't see how a snap election could go wrong for Trudeau, at all.....
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Aug 19, 2020 12:08:11 GMT
"It's nothing like Harper's" he cried, unconvincingly. Indeed. Worked out rather well for Harper though...
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Post by maxque on Aug 19, 2020 13:41:37 GMT
"It's nothing like Harper's" he cried, unconvincingly. Well, there is a major difference. Harper proroged the Parliament for 3 months. Trudeau' Throne Speech will be 3 days after the scheduled return from summer recess.
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Post by Khunanup on Aug 19, 2020 14:12:34 GMT
"It's nothing like Harper's" he cried, unconvincingly. Well, there is a major difference. Harper proroged the Parliament for 3 months. Trudeau' Throne Speech will be 3 days after the scheduled return from summer recess. The difference in Canada is that sessions of parliament are much more historically flexible and it's not unusual to have no proroguement for long periods of time so when it is used it's seen as something that can generally be weaponised. Over here, we have a pretty standard pattern of Parliamentary sessions (albeit a pattern that's gone a bit off kilter in the last few years) so most proroguements are completely uncontroversial even if they come at very inconvenient times for inquiries etc.
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Post by MacShimidh on Aug 31, 2020 16:16:44 GMT
This happened two weeks ago but seems to have gone unnoticed - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has resigned from Parliament. This is ostensibly because he intends to run for the secretary-generalship of the OECD, but in reality his role in the WE Charity scandal likely made his position untenable. This will mean a by-election in Toronto Centre (assuming a general election isn't called soon).
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Post by CatholicLeft on Aug 31, 2020 17:29:00 GMT
This happened two weeks ago but seems to have gone unnoticed - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has resigned from Parliament. This is ostensibly because he intends to run for the secretary-generalship of the OECD, but in reality his role in the WE Charity scandal likely made his position untenable. This will mean a by-election in Toronto Centre (assuming a general election isn't called soon). I posted about it up thread on the 18th August.
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Post by MacShimidh on Aug 31, 2020 19:01:34 GMT
This happened two weeks ago but seems to have gone unnoticed - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has resigned from Parliament. This is ostensibly because he intends to run for the secretary-generalship of the OECD, but in reality his role in the WE Charity scandal likely made his position untenable. This will mean a by-election in Toronto Centre (assuming a general election isn't called soon). I posted about it up thread on the 18th August. So you did - apologies for missing it.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 13, 2020 18:57:14 GMT
New Brunswick will head to the polls tomorrow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Brunswick_general_electionThe ruling "Progressive Conservatives" managed to absorb their supplier PA (mostly), while MidLeft is split between Liberals and Greens. So PC should win without many difficulties (although a broad BreakThrough in the French ridings will be unlikely).
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 14, 2020 23:12:43 GMT
The first precincts seem to show huge leads for PC in most ridings, but far behind in a minority.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Sept 14, 2020 23:16:21 GMT
Global News projects 42% PC and 32% Liberals, so a done deal.
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