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[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 227 points 2 months ago

Really proud of Canada not going down the same path my dumb ass country did

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 41 points 2 months ago

Hopefully Australia follows suit, as we have our own Temu Trump in opposition coming into our election.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 162 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Narrowly.

Are you guys not horrified of what’s happening south? If you interpret this as a win and go on, your country is going to be mega conservative in like a decade.

No, this is an existential crisis, and you need to shut off the propaganda machines before it’s too late.

[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 57 points 2 months ago

Agreed. Incumbents always do worse in the next election. Makes me shudder to think what the result of the next election is going to be. Trudeau's latest term was really bad and they got no punishment for it whatsoever thanks to the gift from the south. And Canada seems to be moving further and further away from proportional representation. So who will voters swing to next election?

Great result for today's Canadians. Terrifying result for future Canadians.

[-] AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

I would point out though that a CPC win would have been a terrifying result for future AND current Canadians. So I guess that's a small win?

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 months ago

Quite true. The reason for celebration is that had the conservatives won they were planning to defund our public broadcaster right off the bat. We need all kinds of reforms but having the CBC around to report on them will be quite important.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's after a full decade of Liberal rule. Do you know how hard it is to win after that long being blamed for everyone's problems? This is huge.

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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What do you mean "narrowly"? It's a clean victory and the trumpist conservative leader lost his own riding.

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[-] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Look, we've had the liberals for ten years now. Theyve won 4 elections at this point. It's amazing they won anything at all this time.

[-] jellygoose@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago

Justin fatigue was real. Carney coming in, demolishing the only thing the conservative dingdongs were campaigning about and just being overall a very respectable candidate turned things around. Along with the orange monkey down there.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 93 points 2 months ago

lol suck it conservaturds.

thank you, canada, for not following america's path to ruin.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Yet. Stay vigilant

[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 89 points 2 months ago

Ironically, Trudeau hanging around for a long as he did may have saved Canada. If this election had happened in the middle of last year, the Conservatives would have probably won and combined with Trump, it would have been a disaster. Possibly the smartest/luckiest thing he has ever done.

[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

At the end of the day it all comes down to the role of the dice.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

in this case it was the early voter turnout and the special ballots that really lifted it. And we cannot ever forget Bloc. They did a huge push on this one. No one hates Trump quite as much as Quebecois and they showed it 20 fold. Quite a ride watching all this. Especially what with the cyber attacks on the PM during this short campaign was relentless as was the propaganda radios. It honestly should be a case study on how out of control the propaganda was getting on X and facebook.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Trump made Québécois what Canadians themselves couldn't do, make Québécois more Canadian.

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[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm happy for you Canada.

You succeeded where America couldn't.

Are y'all accepting asylum for programmers / tech professionals?

[-] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 months ago

If you're serious, start looking for companies hiring up here. As I understand it's not easy, even for economic class immigrants, but I work in tech and I work with many immigrants (albeit not usually from the US, but it's a different world now). Mind you - please look carefully into the financial impacts as it is a change from the US. Salaries are lower and taxes generally higher, which may or may not be offset in your context in other ways (healthcare a big one, income tax deductions, etc.) But many people, myself included, prefer Canada regardless of the reduced compensation. It's not always about money.

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[-] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

Australian chiming in here and we have an election in a few days time.

The current Opposition Leader is running on a platform of Trump Wannabee.

I really really hope our country tells him to stick it up his fucking ass.

[-] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

rooting for you aussies. Love and strength from Germany <3

[-] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Cheers dude. We have to come together across all borders to end this shit.

[-] jellygoose@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

Let’s go mates. Kick them bootlicker asses.

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[-] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The big key is gonna be if we get that sweet 172 seats with Lib+Green+NDP, we are only 1 seat short

If we hit that mark it means, hilariously, the one single green seat is needed to form a majority government without bloc's help needed

Which will force liberal party to play ball with NDP and Green Party's more progressive policies.

That's our ideal scenario, conservatives are told to go kick rocks, and green/ndp get an actual voice on decision making to push the country in a progressive direction.

One. More. Seat!

[-] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

Atm we got it, this is the magic sweet spot where we want to be

172 seats exactly with lib+ndp+green

and conservatives can't even threaten a vote of non confidence with bloc's help. (1 vote short)

But they could trigger it with that 1 green seat's help, which means liberals have to stay on the good side of that 1 green seat XD

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[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Sky news spin: haha, Carney was actually Trump's win! I can't make this shit up (but apparently Sky news can...)

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Daddy hasn't told them what to say yet and these kinds of outlets don't know how to think for themselves anymore. And at this point it's pretty much all news outlets based out of the US don't know what to say without him.

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[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

As a dumbass American... Go Canada! Fuck yeah good work!

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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

I cannot wait to see how the Trump admin will spin this. Either that or they have a meltdown and immediately call it a rigged election. Bonus points if he tells Canadians to storm their capital.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago

They are 100% going to say our election was rigged, and our idiots are going to believe them.

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 months ago

Finally something to celebrate in this general vicinity. Congratulations, Canada.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bro I need gaslighting lessons from PP; how is he losing his riding, losing an election he has polled 20+ points in the lead in for almost two years, and yet gives a speech where he not only says he will stay on as leader, but makes it seem like losing the election was his desired outcome??

Really sad about Jagmeet and the NDP wipeout tbh. I know why it happened, but if I'm not mistaken the universal pharma and dentalcare we have now were initiatives pushed by the NDP that the Liberals get credit for because they were the ones holding the PM seat.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

but if I’m not mistaken the universal pharma and dentalcare we have now were initiatives pushed by the NDP that the Liberals get credit for because they were the ones holding the PM seat.

No one who has any political awareness would give the liberals credit for that. That was the NDP's contribution.

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago

Electoral Reform will be passed this time.... right?

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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

Fuck man, I wish I could afford move to Canada right now.

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

I can but they won't let my friends in. I didn't realize until I looked into it but national borders are actually quite rigid

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

this outcome has less to do with trump's actions, and more to do with how the conservatives behaved in spite of those actions.

I think enough people were like me, ready to vote conservative, but then lost faith in the party since they didnt really seem to have a plan on anything once trudeau was gone early. Pollievre's stock tanked once people saw that Trudeau was gone, and what was happening in the world

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 20 points 2 months ago

Long as you're voting against fascists man

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 months ago

Canada should give Trump the Order of Canada for unifying the country. Do it.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Having a criminal history would likely make him ineligible.

There's no outright rule against it but several people have been removed from the order for committing crimes.

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[-] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

Meirdas Touch once again. The orange shit stain backs a Con and all voters take that as a sign that the person is a piece of shit and votes opposite.

Sometimes it works nicely.

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[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestley, I was going to vote conservative, even after Trump. And then Pollievre went into third gear with Woke Derangement Syndrome, the guy was having unhinged rants. Couldn't get a paragraph out without mentioning woke. Ask him to define it, and he'd either PP.EXE stop responding, or he'd fly off the handle with pre-programmed slogans.

Stupid people on both sides of the race. But that was what turned me.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

I'm curious, what attracted you to the Conservatives prior to the Maple-MAGA movement?

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[-] OctaviaMeowzly 21 points 2 months ago

Hopefully Britain follows Canadas footsteps (as we might vote in wish trump)

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[-] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

I wish the reaction to Trump would fuel the left-liberals/social libertarians in Germany. Instead, a quarter of the populace wants to vote for nazis. So I wish I'd live in Canada or some other queer friendly nation that isn't being dominated by the far right right now.

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[-] TripleIris@lemmy.wtf 18 points 2 months ago

This feels like a short-term win but a long-term loss. Carney is a centrist, a former banker that's in to a lot of conservative ideas. He feels like Biden 2.0, the conservatives only losing because of Trump's unhinged rantings. MAGA-ism has gained a huge foothold in Canada, and turning to a do nothing centrist is only going to do so much.

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[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

You can predict what likely happens next: more neoliberal policies and degradation of quality of life. In one of the next election the fascists take over Canada. They never learn.

[-] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

This is my fear as well. Neoliberal policies are exactly what have made the extreme right so strong and powerful over the past decades. When people have no means to get forward in life, they resort to despotism, which is exactly why the poorest parts of the USA are so strongly in favor of Trump, while the wealthier parts are still clinging onto the liberal train.

Like I said in other posts, this is a good day for the current term, but if the Liberals aren't serious about making life better for real Canadians (not the super-wealthy ones), there's a good chance that this is only exacerbating an inevitable collapse.

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