• Albbi@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      At least that election season won’t last more than 7 weeks. Instead of this insane 2 year marathon the US has.

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        2 months ago

        Funny, I was watching tv and had a Canadian station on. Every other commercial break was a Pierre Putinfever ad.

        In Canada, Elections campaigns can last a MAXIMUM of 50 days.

        Somehow, in the past few years, the laws for campaign ads changed (thanks Crtc!) and they no longer fall into the category of a campaign.

        And there are newish election laws that set out a ‘pre campaign period’ that allows further erosion of the campaign time limit restrictions.

        That period - anytime after the last election.

        Wtf.

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      2 months ago

      Hey, remember when the liberal party of Canada ran and won on electoral reform? And then just went “nah bro” and didn’t get anything done about it?

      Oopsie daisy gee golly isnt governing hard? Not that you would know because youre not in their club and you will never get a chance to govern.

      Looks like now you have to vote for the liberals again or yous gets the conservatives again. Ahhh shucks ding dang it. What a conundrum. Quite the pickle ain’t it?

      Sound familiar?

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        2 months ago

        Yeah sounds familiar and I’ll vote Trudeau if it is needed to stop conservatives from getting in power.

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          2 months ago

          Why? We are a multi party nation.

          NDP is always pushed aside because people are scared of the cons.

          The liberals are just as bad as the cons but in a different way.

          Canada’s national identity is basically the results of the work of the NDP. Yet they are never given opportunity.

          Look what happened in the States.

          The fucking Antichrist now had another 4 years because the dems focused on their own interests instead of the common folk.

          The liberals have ignored everyone but their faces in a mirror.

          Nothing would have been accomplished if the NDP hadnt pushed them to.

          Anyway, welcome to the tribulations.

          People are clueless the literal hell they’ve unleashed.

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            2 months ago

            Let’s face reality. The first time that Trump was elected, everyone was surprised, sure.

            Now that he will be elected again, there is no more surprise. A lot of Americans still chose Trump after everything he’s said and done and he’s won the popular vote.

            The US have been toeing the line of fascism for a while now and a good proportion of their citizens just told us they embraced it, regardless of if they know what that entails or not.

            Donald Trump is just a symptom, not the cause. If there wasn’t any fascists, he wouldn’t even be in the race yet here we are.

            With that said, if the polls are really close between the Libs and Cons for a majority government, I for sure will vote for the Libs. The Cons are the worst possible majority government we can have.

            Otherwise, I am free to choose NPD, as I did in every elections before.