Progressives are, and usually have been, screwed by Canada's First Past the Post electoral system. Trudeau is even threatening another election within 18 months if he does not get his majority, the one and only reason we are presently having an election right in the middle of our forest fire season, our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the 4th wave of the Covid19 pandemic.
When the voting is all said and done, and the ballots counted, and there is no majority government result, and the NDP is in a position to join with another party to create a majority government, if progressives are ever going have some sway in Parliament Jagmeet Singh needs to insist on a 4-year Coalition Government with, the NDP Cabinet Positions based on thie seat count. Progressives are never ever going to get any power in Ottawa unless they forcefully demand it, right after the election is over.
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2019
All-time low share of popular vote is enough for Liberals to win power
It marks only the second time in Canada’s history that a governing party will take power with such a low share of the vote
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/canadian-federal-el...
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Seven Ways that the Canadian Electoral system is UNFAIR
A Brief Submitted to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform by Stephen McCulloch I am not a whiner. I know very well that life is not fair. But, our electoral system, which should fairly represent our interests, is out of balance. And there are viable alternatives.
https://www.ourcommons.ca/content/Committee/421/ERRE/Brief/BR8550163/br-...
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Trudeau Tumbles Further Behind Conservative ‘Freight Train’
Sep 3 2021 — Bloomberg
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s odds of retaining power in Canada are slipping as his Liberal Party falls further behind in the polls ahead of a snap election. The main opposition Conservatives under Leader Erin O’Toole have climbed to nearly 36% support in the latest Nanos Research Group survey. The Liberals are trailing at 31% and […]
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Bricker’s Campaign Week: NDP on the move, Liberals stuck in the mud
Sep 3 2021 — Darrell Bricker — Global News
What sticks out in the polling so far is how personal this election has become. What was supposed to be a referendum on the Trudeau Government’s management of the pandemic and the way forward has become a referendum on the character of Justin Trudeau. The focus on character goes back to the election’s timing and […]
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Climate crisis cannot be separated from extreme wealth inequality
https://rabble.ca/news/2021/08/climate-crisis-cannot-be-separated-extrem...
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Canada on course for worst wave of COVID-19 yet, new modelling data shows
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canada-on-course-for-worst-wav...
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Trudeau and O'Toole play defence during first French TV debate
Nobody bites on idea of a coalition government
Moderator Bruneau seemed particularly aggrieved by the early election, and tried to propose a way to prevent another precipitous election call should this election not award a majority to any party.
He pushed the idea of a coalition government, which would be able to keep power for a full four-year mandate.
Trudeau dismissed that idea out of hand, saying we had no tradition of coalitions in Canada.
Other leaders were more circumspect, emphasizing they would work to make Parliament work, whatever the outcome of the vote.
Blanchet categorically said his party would not take part in a coalition. It would, as is its wont, continue to supporting measures that were good for Quebec and oppose those that weren't.
The moderator, as have other journalists, pushed the NDP's Singh on potential collaboration with the Tories. But, as he has done previously, Singh said he was running to be prime minister, full stop.
Oddly, Trudeau was the only leader to say he did not think another Parliament in which no party had a majority would last. He speculated that in such a case there would be another election within 18 months. It was a petulant statement, and it might come back to bite Trudeau on the backside.
Trudeau was on firmer ground on vaccine mandates, which he supports for federal workers and federally regulated industries, but which both O'Toole and Blanchet (and Green leader Annamie Paul, who was not invited to this debate ) oppose.
The Liberal leader continues trying to make obligatory vaccination a wedge issue, as such Liberal sages as former senior Chrétien adviser Peter Donolo have advised. So far, it does not seem to getting much traction.
https://rabble.ca/news/2021/09/trudeau-and-otoole-play-defence-during-fi...
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The ballot box question is looking more and more likely to be: Are you happy that an election was called at the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic's 4th wave in Canada?