Fuck off. How the fuck is this kind of bullshit allowed? He lost! He shouldn’t get to swap out with someone. Wtf
This is how the government of Canada operates. It shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Absenteeism in the Catholic Church was a major factor in the Protestant Reformation. There will come a time in any system that allows it where it is violently reminded why a disconnect between representative and the population they are supposed to serve is a bad idea.
This is the system of governance you are under. I agree with you that parachuting shouldn’t be allowed, but here we are.
Did you mean shouldn’t?
They picked that riding for a reason. The Cons got 81.8% of the vote in the recent election in that riding.
I wish we had the requirement that you must LIVE in the riding you’re running for and have lived there the past 2 years at least. Should also have to live there the entire time in office as well.
Exactly, your MP is supposed to represent your local interest. If they don’t live there why the fuck would they care about you and your interests?
The last thing I would change is you only get paid the median wage of the people who you represent.
Truly a person of the people
It would encourage you to do a better job and try and lift your community to greater heights
That’s actually a decent idea. Imagine if Trump’s income was capped at $66k/year, the US median income. He might actually give a shit about income inequality and raising the minimum wage.
Nah, he’d just ramp up the “side hustle” grifting even more.
Hilarious that a bunch of Albertans that hate Ottawa politicians are about to vote in an Ottawa politician.
I’d love to see Albertans reject him as an “Ottawa elite parachute candidate”.
They won’t, of course, but a guy can dream…
Maybe shame the libertarians in that riding into presenting an independent candidate that would defeat Peter Rabbithair easily.
Perfectly on brand, tbh.
They love freedom, but not for trans or gays.
They love their country, but they hate paying the taxes to support it.
They love democracy, but they hate when anybody else wins.
They hate tyranny, but they love to back traitors.
Because they’re not consistent. It’s not about anyone being an Ottawa politician, it’s just their tribalist victim complex.
Holy shit do they not want him to lose again.
“The Conservatives handily won that riding on Monday with nearly 82 per cent of the vote.”
They picked one of the safest ridings in the country so that there’s no chance of that happening.
I assume he’s being paid off by the Conservative party somehow. Otherwise he just spent a lot of time and money to get re-elected and is now unemployed.
Not one of the safest. The safest. Not giving off confident energy.
Would be funny if it flipped anyway
Even if it went to a hard right independent; anyone but Poilievre
Maxime Bernier is free, but he’s also probably not even popular enough to split the vote.
Here is the 388Canada link to the riding.
If I just voted for someone and then they quit to allow someone else to run and I needed to go vote AGAIN just for some power play I would be fucking pissed. Hopefully these voters are as well.
Okay Battle River-Crowfoot, you know what to do
It’s exceptionally blue even for Alberta but who knows? I hope the liberal candidate calls Fanjoy for tips and starts TODAY. It’s not impossible.
I would even take a further-right fuckhead, be they PPC or Independent, I just want to see Poilievre lose his seat a second time
Sure. Works for me as well.
You can sell it as their chance to be represented in the government. Beyond the practical benefits, people like to be on the winning team.
It’s never going to make up the difference here, but it would be funny just to see him to worse than the other guy.
We‘ll definitely keep an eye on this. You never know and yea even a couple of points down will be nice to see. People who think he’ll represent their local concerns are delusional. He probably didn’t even know where the riding is.
Can’t start today. Not until the byelection is called. Carney doesn’t have to call one for 6 months. And why should he? The voters there don’t want another election so soon. They just voted someone who abandoned their post!
Well he can talk to Fanjoy today. Carney said he’ll call it immediately if they want that. I think that’s a solid move. I like that he is a no bs guy and doesn’t play games. I don’t want a bye election. I think that’s garbage but if that’s the rules …
poilievre is now a DEI hire exactly in the way the cons lie and misrepresent DEI hires
So the unemployed loser went to daddy for a handout. I want to know how much he paid the other guy for switching places.
OK, Battle River - you know what to do! LOL
Nauseating. Fuck this fascist POS and his followers. A coward and a hypocrite.
Voters rejected PP.
It seems like this other Conservative isn’t confident in their own ability to act as an MP. And it doesn’t look good to give your seat up to a loser.
It also shows to the people in the riding that they don’t matter … the position is just to get a politician into power not to represent actual people.
the position is just to get a politician into power not to represent actual people.
Based when we’re talking about the Conservative party, eh? 🤭
@Showroom7561 @ininewcrow Based regardless of the political party.
You know I find the nominal political viewpoints of conservatives(small c) just. Not exactly my cup of tea but like supporting armed gay married couples with a marihuana growing business while having a long term view towards a responasible budget is an entirely valid and respectable #policy position to have.
The brain melting Hybrid civil war they are waging on the other hand…
Not just in #Canada but across #Europe and the entire #West. Well what passes for The West now a days anyway.
There is no such thing as a small “c” Conservative. If you vote for the party, you stand with the tent.
You know I find the nominal political viewpoints of conservatives(small c) just.
Why even bother creating a steel man for conservatism? Free yourself from this enlightened centrist fantasy.
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@villasv whats wrong with centrism?
In theory, nothing. In practice, half as much of what’s wrong with conservatism. But I was referring to “enlightened centrism” is more specific: the tendency to position oneself in the middle of two ‘extremes’ because it’s a comfortable position, to play a role of enlightened by always taking a both-sides stance. That’s what I’m referring to as a fantasy, because we know that in practice, for the core issues of politics, almost always there is a wrong side of history stance.
They would care if they could read. The people of the riding that is.
See a lot of post just about the 81.8%(53,502) of votes, but the bigger thing is that it’s out of 81,123 electors so even if every other elector went to a single candidate plus another 10k swung from Conservative’s that would still not be enough.
Very descriptive quote from Wikipedia:
Even by the standards of rural Alberta, Battle River—Crowfoot is a strongly conservative riding.
They really wanted to make sure Monsieur Poil was safe.
Damn I thought this dude might actually be gone. This feels really unfair. He doesn’t give a shit about that area, so much for local representation
It’s not like he cared about the constituents of Carleton, either.
I hope he loses
I mean the other guy won by like 80%. I doubt he’s going to lose
They wanted the other guy. Voting 80% in favour for a guy only to have him tossed out by some rich prick might change some minds.
Conservative minds?
Maybe. But I bet they elect him. It’s the safest seat in the country.
The guy wasn’t an MP long enough to be eligible to the pension at 65 either, he’ll get what he put in back so that will be a nice cheque to keep him going for a bit (20% deduction for the MP’s pension).
