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homerun1's avatar

Wow.. Bloc candidate beat the Liberal by 44 votes. Then the automatic recount resulted in that 1 vote (!) Liberal win. What a big vote shift.

There are 3 other recounts being done. So there's still a possibility for a Liberal majority government 172 seats.

Ballot recounts taking place in 4 tightly contested federal ridings

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-recounts-four-ridings-1.7531657

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dragonfire5004's avatar

Not quite sadly. From the link:

“The Liberals fell just three seats short of the 172 required of a majority government. Even if the recounts all turn out Liberal victories, the party will still be one short.”

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RainDog2's avatar

Yes, two of the other recounts are ones where the initial tally favoured the liberals. So best case they net one more seat, worst case they lose one seat total.

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axlee's avatar

Carney doesn’t really need a majority at this moment. He doesn’t even need a formal confidence and supply agreement from NDP.

He just need to make sure not losing any votes on confidence matters, the throne speech, budget and money bills, any non taxing/spending laws he wants to pass absolutely and declares as confidence vote, or the non confidence motion Conservatives put forward.

IMHO, in terms of not letting the Liberals passing something in their worse instincts like Trudeau era, it is better NOT for them to have a majority.

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michaelflutist's avatar

What kinds of problematic legislation are you thinking of?

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axlee's avatar

Things Trudeau and Starmer have done that make them extremely unpopular.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Where do PM Carney and the Liberals stand on approving of California, Oregon, Washington and Maine applying for Canadian provincehood?

/s

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michaelflutist's avatar

How about New York?

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ArcticStones's avatar

Queue up!

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Mike in MD's avatar

Maryland may be getting in line. And maybe DC may be causing some to look for a new "United" States capital... and causing Ottawa some tension...

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dragonfire5004's avatar

The problem in my honest opinion living here, was Trudeau himself. People got tired of him specifically, not so much the policies (although you get no argument from me that the Liberals should have passed more legislation to help the cost of living for people over these last 10 years). I think that bares out in the election results (except the carbon tax that was very unpopular despite myself supporting it).

As soon as Carney took that 1 issue off the table, Canadians decided to hand them another up to 5 years as a minority government (unless they convince some NDP’ers or even Conservatives to cross the floor) despite Conservatives leading by 25 points a few months ago.

So I definitely agree he doesn’t need a majority and he has little risk in his government being toppled for at least the next year or two. I also agree he doesn’t need a supply and/or confidence agreement with the NDP.

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