About two weeks ago the Canadian Liberals pulled off what they thought was a very clever move. They wrangled together enough votes in Parliament to pass a no confidence motion, which forced Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call for new elections.
The theory behind the strategy was that new elections would help the Liberals pick up more seats in Parliament:
Oops. Reuters reports that the move may backfire:
The Conservatives widened its lead against the opposition Liberals in an opinion poll released on Monday.
The Nanos Research tracking poll of results over three days of surveys put support for the Conservatives at 42.3 percent, up from 40.7 percent in Sunday’s survey. Support for the Liberals slipped to 28.4 percent from 29.4 percent.
Under Canada’s electoral system, a party needs around 40 percent of the vote to win a majority of the 308 seats in the House of Commons in the May 2 federal election.
Let’s get into neither Canadian math, in which 40% equals a majority, nor Reuters English, in which “The Conservatives widened its lead” is proper grammar.
But let’s do get into the fact that Canada’s Liberals forced the nation’s Conservative Prime Minister to call an election in which they will lose seats.
Oh, how we wish American liberals would follow the example set by their Canadian cousins and spend more of their time mastering the art of deficit elections rather than art of deficit spending.
Source: Reuters
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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Good point Barb. The fact is the bloc get elected via the same %engima. Bloc mps get between 25 & 38 per cent but with the federalist vote split between 4+ parties in most ridings they dominate. As per leanings they are far left using the protection of francophone rights as their scare tactic.
To give you the Canadian math lesson, you just need to realize that Canada is a multi-party system with 4 main political parties. The actual 3rd place minory party in the parliament is the PQ (Parti Quebecois) which is founded on the seperatist stance of Quebec seperating from the rest of Canada. Then the NDP (real left wing wingnuts) is 4th. That is why a party can be the "majority" party with 40% as the rest of the seats (60%) are divided up by the other 3 parties.
Yes, our media is just as liberal biased as in the USA, it is quite disgusting.
Just a small correction, Max. It's not the PQ, it's the Bloc Quebecois, affectionately known as the Bloc-heads. The PQ are the provincial separatists, the Bloc-heads are the federal separatists.
I also like when I go to Canada, I can't watch FoxNews in my hotel. I do bring my XM Sateelite radio so I can at least listen, but I cannot watch as I unwind for bedtime.
If you don't get Fox News Channel, you should complain to the management of the hotel. FNC is available on upper tier cable.
But never fear, because you will probably get Al-Jazeera, especially if that hotel is in Toronto. They rec'd almsot immediate approval to broadcast in Canada while Fox had quite a fight on their hands with the regulators. It took FNC something like 18 months longer than Al-Jazeera to receive broadcast approval.
Oh Canada. /sigh
That's it. I'm officially not going to Canada.
I would say visit, I had a blast last summer in Manitoba, & I am heading back, this time to Saskatchewan. For very different reasons, but I'm going back up there. I was treated very well there, & the Canucks were alot of fun to hang with. FoxNews or not, I would tell you to consider going there for a vacation.
I wonder if the liberal-loons in Canada stuff the ballot boxes to the massive extent they do in the US?
Does ACORN have a branch office in Canada?
Well...
http://www.acorncanada.org/
...you did ask.
Oh geez, Danybhoy. I didn't REALLY want to know that. But why do they need ACORN in Canada? Aren't they already all liberals up there?
Not entirely, you go west from Toronto heading toward the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, & for much of BC, you will find some conservatives.
Unfortunately the MSM in Canada, the publicly funded CBC, along with the left leaning CTV and Global are in the corner with the Liberals to make sure that Harper only gets a minority. They highlight any minor problem in the Conservative campaign and play it over and over and over again.
Plus - and you may have covered this - the CBC has a Voter's Compass on their website which is nothing more than a push poll that puts any undecided response into the Liberal column.