cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29061644

We’ve done it, we got rid of another soulless right wing politician!

Peter Dutton first made his party lose this election and now also lost his own seat much like Pierre Pullover

We’ve still got a government that green-lit new coal power plants in it’s last term, screwed over the Aboriginal community with a poorly run referendum, and still doesn’t give a shit about climate change, but baby steps hey.

    • @piskertariot@lemmy.world
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      192 days ago

      It’s about 3 seconds of googling to find out that there will be byelection in Battle River-Crowfoot, which went 81.8% in favour of the Conservative candidate. Polievre will run there, get swept in, and pretend that he represents Canadians.

    • @PixelProf@lemmy.ca
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      132 days ago

      Not op but https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-to-run-in-alberta-byelection-1.7525104

      Basically he asked a con in the highest % of con votes to step down to trigger a by-election. It’s an area where the other parties don’t even campaign, they just hand it to the cons.

      There are already talks of “liberals rigged the election” so that he can deflect and not make it a personal failing that he lost a riding that’s historically always been conservative and lost a 25 point lead in the polls in a few months.

      • sparky@lemmy.federate.ccA
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        221 hours ago

        Imagine running a campaign so terrible that you lose your own riding, then running off to a province on the other side of the country to weasel your way back in.

      • @throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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        112 days ago

        What even is the point of “representing your district” if they could just nominate a random person from across the country that never before stepped foot in that district?

        • Hemingways_Shotgun
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          92 days ago

          Welcome to Canadian Parliamentary politics, where every good step forward has an equal and opposite step backwards.

          While I still prefer it to the alternative system to the south; where it’s all bad steps. I’d be lying if I said our own system was perfect by any means.

        • Sixty
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          42 days ago

          Carney could deny the by-election or at least delay it, but that’d cause conservative tears so he’s avoiding the drama.

      • @kingofras@lemmy.worldOP
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        62 days ago

        Oh god… We had Jacinta Pryce (extreme right winger in Oz) try the same here tonight. How do they expect this to work? I suppose because it worked for Diaper Don…