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Party Seats % Change in Seats Majority Probability Minority Probability
Liberal 192 44.4% +39 93.2% 6.3%
Conservative 118 37.8% -1 0.1% 4.1%
Bloc 26 6.3% -7 0% 0%
New Democrat 6 6.7% -19 N/A N/A
Green 1 1.4% -1 N/A N/A
People's 0 2.7% -2.2% N/A N/A
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The long term warning is that if the LPC wins a majority and fails to reasonably address housing or general living costs we'll be back in this same position next cycle.

My hope is for a minority LPC government with either BQ or NDP forcing them away from neoliberalism - if that fails it's a long shot that Carney will turn his back on neoliberal economics... but Canada (and the world really) are at the breaking point from neoliberalism and we'll either gracefully correct or fall closer to authoritarianism and violence.

We need change - and we only have so many chances before a fucker like PP wins an election based on economic discontent and fucks us forever.

Edit: Just to be super clear - fuck the conservatives. I in no way desire them to end up in government and my statement comes from a place of rejecting anti-trans hate and embracing a sane environmental response to climate change.

[–] Dtules 20 points 1 week ago

Yep, this is where I am too.

I'm annoyed at having to vote Liberal, to be honest, but I hope this election makes it clear that cozying up to American populists is a losing strategy in Canada.

[–] avidamoeba 2 points 6 days ago

That's true.

Unfortunately we have no real ability to microtarget the result between a minority and majority. With FPTP small changes in the popular vote in the 35-40% range produce drastic changes in seat numbers.

A possible side effect from a massive Liberal majority would be that the CPC is likely to split like it did in the past with Reform splitting from the PCs. In such a scenario, the next election would have a lot more room for a renewed NDP or something else to take votes from the LPC because the CPC won't automatically win due to vote split.

[–] Prezhotnuts 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I would have to think if the polls are right and the liberals manage to win a majority, the conservatives would have to do some real soul searching.

[–] we_all_live_in_a_capital_i 25 points 1 week ago

They'll just get angrier and play dirtier. That will be the result of their soul searching.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Conservatives would rather abandon democracy than conservatism

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd love it if the Conservatives fielded a moderate, Joe Clark-style candidate. I'd be able to go through an election cycle without losing sleep for once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard Christy Clarke is looking for work - she's essentially a moderate conservative.

[–] troyunrau 9 points 1 week ago

The problem is that she would first have to win the party leadership. And the party nomination process has been hijacked by the fundies who don't want a moderate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe we'll get lucky and Carney will finally have enough government and provincial support to drop FPTP on federal elections.

[–] yardy_sardley 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trudeau had that and did fuck all. We all need to spend the next 4 years actively hounding our MPs about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I like where your heads at but we really need to hound them for the next two months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've yet to see any news of him openly supporting PR outside of a PR friendly minister - did I miss an announcement?