danielquinn

Thank you. You just made my day.

He will probably try to find a way to grant the NDP official party status, even though they came well short of earning it in the election. And he might yet make some changes that give parliamentarians — including the ones on the opposition benches — the ability to question witnesses, propose legislation, and otherwise better interrogate the issues of the day and the government’s handling of them.

I know we're in the honeymoon period of new leadership, but there's no evidence for any of this. Fawcett is just projecting what he'd like Carney to do and this article is mostly just gushing over our new PM rather than an attempt at ensuring that we're supplied with any factual information. I expected better from the Observer.

This sounds pretty significant, but significant claims require significant evidence. I'd like to see some links or something about this.

There seems to be a degree of confidence here that they wouldn't choose to leave. Don't be so sure. BC and Saskatchewan may vary a bit politically, but Alberta (with the exception of the two urban centres) has pretty much solidly been in the camp of "fuck the rest of the country, we got ours" for as far back as I can remember... and I'm 46.

4 weeks is still not on par with other civilised countries. Living here in the UK now, 5 weeks is standard. When I was in the Netherlands I was getting six.

I had the same reaction until I read this.

TL;DR: it's 10-50x more efficient at cleaning the air and actually generates both electricity and fertiliser.

Yes, it would be better to just get rid of all the cars generating the pollution in the first place and putting in some more trees, but there are clear advantages to this.

I see where you're trying to say here, but you're making the mistake of conflating conservatism with fascism. There may well be right leaning people and left-leaning people with similar IQs, but it requires a special degree of stupid and willful ignorance to believe the many, many lies that come out of the Trump Whitehouse.

It's an Alberta riding that went 82% Conservative in the last election. It's highly unlikely.

It's a little annoying how this was a lesson the Greens have had to learn twice. Elizabeth May ran repeatedly in her relatively Green-hostile home town and lost every time, but at some point, she and the party agreed that if we were going to get a seat, they'd have to do it by putting our leader in a riding she was likely to win. So, the party did a bunch of polling, and May uprooted her life and moved to Saanich Gulf Islands... where she's won every election since.

We can't just pick a leader — no matter how good he is (and he's pretty great, check out his Wikipedia page), and expect that he can run and win wherever he is. Not in this electoral system and not with the Green profile where it is. Any candidate interested in actually winning needs to be willing to move their life to a riding where they at least stand a chance. Maybe there's a soft (preferably Québéc) seat somewhere, but Outremont clearly isn't it.

What a great idea!

Um, 43% isn't a majority under any electoral system, and that number definitely represents a significant "strategic" vote, evidenced by way of the multiple strategic voting sites and endless posts on social media begging people not to "throw their vote away".

So this is objectively not a majority, but I fully expect Carney and his supporters to act as though it is. The job of the remaining smaller parties then is to remind him.

Honestly, this feels a little gross.

Too many people just spent the last 5 weeks demanding that everyone "hold their nose and vote Liberal to keep the Conservatives out", knowingly cratering support for the smaller parties, and now you turn around and are all like "we have to work together"?

Fuck. That.

We have common cause, but if the Liberals were serious about working together they would have embraced proportional representation. They didn't. They wanted domination, campaigning hard in Green & NDP ridings and even with the #ElbowsUp anti-Trump wave, Canadians still didn't want to trust them with a majority. It's not the role of the smaller parties to prop up the neoliberal "shit lite" party, it's to force them to do right by the country. I expect them to do that.