Canada

We’re good as long as he keeps the legendary gut covered up

I would find it amusing if the “Independent party” ended up taking Carleton (ie: more voters voted independent than PP).

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An old family friend who is a staunch and loud and obnoxious conservative who only consumes right wing propaganda and has always voted for the conservative parties for his almost 80 years, has shocked me to my core by voting for Carney. Says he's the right man for the job. This is an absolute sea change for this man. I think a lot of people really hate that little weasel PP and don't stomach fascism in our country.

I donated, I emailed my candidate, I put out a sign, I talked to friends and family (they're all voters anyway)

I didn't volunteer because I just didn't have time, but at least I've done everything I could.

I am one of the ~15% that will not make a difference, I hear you

As much as I feel bad about Alberta getting ignored and shafted by the larger provinces, this is one of the few times I think they deserve it.

The damn guy so many Albertans are voting for is blatantly stating that he's going to take away Canadian rights, funnel public money to the rich, remove services, casually lie about pretty much every subject, and countless other problematic things that are so obvious if you spend even five seconds thinking about it. And this is after successfully voting in a premier that is getting sued left and right for illegal practices and corruption, destroying their public services, and constantly fighting public inquiries by making them private or the results classified.

Albertans (especially rural Albertans) so consistently vote against their best interests in favour of giving their entire province to big oil that returns nothing (not even jobs) to the people living there that their leaders have stopped trying to hide just how terrible they are and are trying to see how much they can get away with while boasting about it out loud.

I know not all Albertans are this bad (hell, I'm Ontarian and we just voted in Ford, the second worst premier in the country for pretty much the same exact reasons), but whenever I see so much blue on a province, it's hard not to get annoyed.

BTW, Saskatchewan is just as bad here, though maybe not the premier stuff.

Looks like we're in the same boat... But aside from that, I'm also annoyed that the Liberals decided to run a candidate in my riding, which before was a clear NDP win. Now they've siphoned away voters from the NDP and might give the cons the win.