More than 100 candidates — most in Canadian history — to run against Poilievre in byelection
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Thank you for the video.
From what I know of her, she seems solid and committed. When I first heard about her, and the anger being directed at Pierre, I started to get a little hope that even if he won she could suck enough of the votes up to be a loss compared to Damien and the Conservatives would axe his ass for two “losses”.
I have never liked or supported what the LBC is doing. I really don’t see how it is supposed to bring change to the electoral system beyond Parliament writing bills to make sure it can no longer happen, which will further hurt independent candidates at the polls because I can only assume the bills would make it harder to be a candidate in general.
I hope more people get revved up about this and start supporting her. From what I have seen of the other candidates besides Pierre, she seems to be the best choice for the area.
Honestly I’m all for having a party of fiscal responsibility. If only conservatives would step up to the plate and fulfill that role!
Yea seeing the mentality of the 2 commentors who support LBC has me questioning if it’s actually activism or just standard attention seeking behaviour.
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Agreed, but it’s up to the politicians (unfortunately) to fix the voting process. All we can do is sit back and enjoy the people pointing out the absurdities in the process.
Theyoh they’ll “fix” it, all right
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The joke is Poilievre running in this riding in the first place. The 100 other candidates are just making sure everyone gets the joke.
Cons still won the popular vote 33.7% to 32.6%, and that was with Trump.
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New record ! Keep it up
Get wrecked PP
This will just help PP get higher numbers.
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I said legitimate opponent. Meaning she seems like a good person for the job. Not that she was a serious contender with a chance to win.
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She’s an independent not an LPC or CPC member so you’re comparing apples to oranges.
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Name recognition is the single most important factor in being elected. It’s factually incorrect to suggest that there would be no difference between a few independent candidates and over 100.
At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?
If you don’t think she has a serious chance to win, then I’m not sure I understand what the complaint is here. What “harm” are they causing?
At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?
The stand for electoral reform (and against the first-past-the-post voting system).
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Bonnie Critchley — who is running as an independent and pitching herself as an alternative to the Conservative leader, who she argues pushed Kurek out — has also called on the Longest Ballot Committee to back off.
In an open letter to the committee posted on her campaign website, Critchley said there is a “backlash” in the riding from voters who are worried that she is a “fake out” candidate.
“I don’t have a massive team, I don’t have backing from millions of people. I have to go door to door within my community and explain to my neighbours that I have nothing to do with you,” she wrote.
Bonnie Critchley actually sounds pretty dope, I looked through her platform and she seems to actually give a shit, but this headline is taking me right out. Good luck to her and fuck PP.
Good luck to Jayson Cowan as well, who sounds like a legit candidate, though I couldn’t find anything other than this article about him.
Basically just fuck PP and I hope someone who deserves it more gets it. One less con seat in the house is a win for me.
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New record ! Keep it up
Get wrecked PP
Make that ballot long as hell! We need to make PP to overplay his hand in whining.
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Not only do I not have an issue with someone signing for multiple candidate, I do not have a problem with hundreds of people on the ballot. Thousands.
Adding additional restrictions to candicy as a mechanism to preserve democracy is like fucking for virginity.
Secondly, it’s nobodies fucking business who I vote for, or whom I want the future OPTION to vote for. Not yours and certainly not the fucking governments. None of your business if I even had an opinion.
Although I hate to make a slippery slope argument, this ends as “registering” as a Republican or Democrat.
This isn’t a problem that requires solving, this is a feature.
People know their candidate by heart they can gloss over the other names.
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This was not what pierre had in mind when he thought he’d be making history
he wanted to be a canadian version of trump and putin’s mouthpiece.
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New record ! Keep it up
Get wrecked PP
I agree that we need to change First Past the Post voting but I dont get how flooding the ballot with a bunch of non serious candidates achieves that? I guess it gets attention, but in the same way that throwing paint on famous works of art “gets attention” for climate change - it mostly just pisses people off and achieves nothing.
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New record ! Keep it up
Get wrecked PP
I know we live in a polarized political landscape. And I acknowledge it’s not possible to make everyone happy. But I also feel like, part of being a good politician is conducting yourself in such a way that large numbers of people don’t hate you. Poilievre failed at that, so I think it’s fair and proper that he’s on the receiving end of this political bullying.
And it’s comical that a man so gripped by antagonistic, indecent rhetoric is getting all huffy that citizens are making a mockery of his cowardly and stupid by-election. Obviously, instead of protesting, he should be asking himself why so many citizens are willing to dedicate their free time to fucking with his shit.
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This is actually quite disappointing PP has a legitimate independent opponent that is center right and doesn’t adhere to CPC politics.
The Longest Ballot Committee has lost the plot on this one. I never supported them but if this is their level of political acumen than I would argue they do more harm than good.
This guy seriously imagines that there is a significant population who just show up to vote and figure out who to vote for after.
People go in knowing who they’re going to vote for. The LBC only affects throw away votes. Fundamentally it’s HILARIOUS, those ballots are absurd, and it gets everyone talking about electoral reform. It works exactly as intended.
If you spent more than one second thinking about it you would have realized your fear is baseless.
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Where are you even getting those numbers? Election Canada has the vote count as 41.3% for Conservatives and 43.7% for Liberals, the Conservatives absolutely did not win the popular vote.
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Where are you even getting those numbers? Election Canada has the vote count as 41.3% for Conservatives and 43.7% for Liberals, the Conservatives absolutely did not win the popular vote.
Ah you’re right, I was reading 2021 numbers, my mistake.
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Sorry, there’s no way he can lose now!
Yep. It’s just every other Canadian who loses when he wins.
