2025 Canadian General Election

[lenaitch]

Pollievre is refusing to resign. There will likely be others in the party with something to say about that...

I suspect there will be shadowy, furtive meetings at first until a night of the long knives breaks out into the open.

Poilievre brought the CPC popular vote to its highest ever (over 41%), and is the fifth CPC leader (elected and interim) since Harper resigned in 2015. Until yesterday, the CPC had never cracked 40% of the popular vote, and only Harper exceeded 35% for the CPC in 2004-08 and 2011. Poilievre deserves kudos for achieving never before levels of popular support and engagement. If he can do it again at the next federal election the Carney Libs may yet fall to the CPC.

You can't keep changing the coach every time you lose a championship. My expectation is that Poilievre stays on, waits for (or coerces) a by-election and takes his seat in the Commons before the end of summer.

Quite frankly, I suspect there is more long-term strategic thinking in sports front offices than political parties. Politics is a winner-take-all blood sport. There are factions in political parties that you don't normally have in sports. The CPC is noted for their internal divisions. Everybody is on the bosses' team until they don't deliver power, and power is the goal.

 

[lenaitch]

Yeah, advance polls "because we can" or "lookit me, I'm so committed that I'm voting in advance". Whereas once upon a time, people tended to vote in advance only when they really had to (due to work or vacation or other such reasons)--nowadays, it's almost like tantrically holding off until e-day to exercise one's franchise (even when one's already "decided" from the beginning) is deemed to be as old-fashioned as land lines and prine newspapers. (But one advantage to voting on e-day: your vote counts t/w your polling station, which helps those who examine poll-by-poll election stats for whatever reason)

I think expanded advanced voting accommodates flexibility better. Some ridings are geographically large and not everyone can clear the single voting day. A single voting day might have worked better in days of yore with hubby working and a home maker at home. Some people are a lot more mobile in their employment. Others, like farmers or fishers, might find it hard to clear a day depending on the time of year.

Voting is a foundational act of a functioning democracy and, in Canada, Constitutionally protected. I think it is correct that the State do what it has to do to provide reasonable accommodation while at the same time ensuring its integrity.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Final results:

Liberal 169 (+15) 43.7% 8,532,336 votes

Conservative 144 (+16) 41.3% 8,058,456 votes

...if I am reading that right, both parties almost gained an equal amount of seats in this election.

 

[picard102]

I think expanded advanced voting accommodates flexibility better. Some ridings are geographically large and not everyone can clear the single voting day. A single voting day might have worked better in days of yore with hubby working and a home maker at home. Some people are a lot more mobile in their employment. Others, like farmers or fishers, might find it hard to clear a day depending on the time of year.

Voting is a foundational act of a functioning democracy and, in Canada, Constitutionally protected. I think it is correct that the State do what it has to do to provide reasonable accommodation while at the same time ensuring its integrity.

Agreed, I'd go so far as having polls open for much longer than a single day and just do away with "advanced" polls. There is no reason other than cost that all polls can't be open for more than a single day.

 

[gabe]

Yep. We need a national housing strategy and housing starts of the likes we've not seen since the post-war years. The trouble is if government incentives flood the market with housing then the value of existing housing drops, putting many mortgage holders under water. How can we fix that?

We need workers first before we flood the market with housing. If people think Carney is actually building 500k houses a year they are delusional. I work in the industry. We have a construction worker shortage or more like a shortage of decent wages, safe worksite union jobs. No wonder millennials and Gen Z's don't want to get into the trades.

 

[Bayer]

My husband and I voted by mail, and I'm sure many people in my building did the same before the tenants' association convinced Elections Canada to bring back the polling station that had been moved to Cumberland Terrace. It wasn't far from Manulife... unless you use a walker or have mobility issues, and many people do around here.

 

[Jonny5]

Agreed, I'd go so far as having polls open for much longer than a single day and just do away with "advanced" polls. There is no reason other than cost that all polls can't be open for more than a single day.

One issue for that is it's hard to get all the workers and party volunteers you need to commit to more than one day, so you wind up with new people each day and every time things change hands it can lead to some operational confusion and errors.

But perhaps a Saturday - Sunday option is best with mailed ballots as our alternative.

 

[Admiral Beez]

We need workers first before we flood the market with housing. If people think Carney is actually building 500k houses a year they are delusional. I work in the industry. We have a construction worker shortage or more like a shortage of decent wages, safe worksite union jobs. No wonder millennials and Gen Z's don't want to get into the trades.

There are a million or more undocumented latinos working in construction in the US. Perhaps we need to send an invitation to find those with skills or tickets we have verify and bring to Canada, not as TFW but as new Canadians.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Agreed, I'd go so far as having polls open for much longer than a single day and just do away with "advanced" polls. There is no reason other than cost that all polls can't be open for more than a single day.

I am not quite sure why folks have issues with advanced polls here. I presume they are available as a way of preventing a bottleneck of voters on election day. And as I've said in a previous post here, if one is already made up their mind, why wait to cast that ballot? It seems a good process in quality of life improvements that make the election go more smoother, IMO...

...unless folks have some sorta weird moral objection to that.

 

[Towered]

(❤´艸｀❤)

Are those boobs with heart pasties? I'm confused...

 

[HousingNowTO]

I also like how the Liberals have seats in every province and territory less Nunavut. A truly national government.

Our HNTO volunteers were accidentally involved in the Liberal recruitment of their new MP for NWT months before this federal election was called.

Mayor Rebecca Alty of Yellowknife has been working with some of our HNTO volunteers and students on things at U of T School of Cities since 2023 - and last time she was in Toronto, we set-up an introductory meeting for her and new "Minister Nate" -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1888283237505761477

 

[HousingNowTO]

Our HNTO volunteers were accidentally involved in the Liberal recruitment of their new MP for NWT months before this federal election was called.

Mayor Rebecca Alty of Yellowknife has been working with some of our HNTO volunteers and students on things at U of T School of Cities since 2013 - and last time she was in Toronto, we set-up an introductory meeting for her and new "Minister Nate" -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1888283237505761477

Seventy-Nine (79) days later - Rebecca Alty is the One (1) MP for NWT as a Federal Liberal -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917058349004427665

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Mayor Rebecca Alty of Yellowknife...

And we complain about Yonge and Eglinton being above the tree line... >.<

 

[adma]

I am not quite sure why folks have issues with advanced polls here. I presume they are available as a way of preventing a bottleneck of voters on election day. And as I've said in a previous post here, if one is already made up their mind, why wait to cast that ballot? It seems a good process in quality of life improvements that make the election go more smoother, IMO...

...unless folks have some sorta weird moral objection to that.

Put it this way: e-day polling-station data is a useful tool to granular electoral study. Whereas when everybody votes in the advance ballot, their vote disappears into a big maw, and that negates the worth of e-day polling-station data.

Plenty of fascinating clickable-by-riding electoral maps available here to vindicate my logic

election-atlas.ca - Federal

 

[lenaitch]

Put it this way: e-day polling-station data is a useful tool to granular electoral study. Whereas when everybody votes in the advance ballot, their vote disappears into a big maw, and that negates the worth of e-day polling-station data.

Plenty of fascinating clickable-by-riding electoral maps available here to vindicate my logic

election-atlas.ca - Federal

The point of an election is to democratically elect people to represent us. Voter data WRT to numbers, timing, etc. is all available from Elections Canada. Perhaps not as fast as some would like.

The concept of 'an election date' is baked into the Constitution. Anything outside of or before that is intended as accommodation in the Elections Act. The availability of polling places and of polling staff in some communities might be an issue. Local schools and community centres are getting harder to find and might not be available In our poll, the advanced voting location was 20km away in a different community.