• @kooks_only@lemmy.ca
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    9013 days ago

    Wearing my team Canada shirt today because the entire country won last night, whether everyone realizes it or not.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      4413 days ago

      I wouldn’t say WON, but bullets were dodged for sure. Phew!

      ( But obviously we need to work on basic education )

    • It was actually so nice. I walked into work and nobody was talking politics because it didn’t feel like the world was ending.

      For any conservatives, I’m sorry. I work and am highly involved with vulnerable people, and I vote to protect them as best I can. A vote for PP would not have been a vote to protect the most vulnerable I know, which in my eyes is what a society is meant to do.

      • laffytaffy
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        1213 days ago

        Same. I also work with vulnerable people and a vote for PP is a vote for many of my peeps at work to be tazered in a jail bathroom for something they cannot afford to medicate (such as it is in “healthcare is a big business” USA).

  • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2013 days ago

    I wonder who told him about the real world? Perhaps he’ll have time to go out and discover it now.

    • @Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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      1513 days ago

      He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.

      • laffytaffy
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        413 days ago

        I hate this fact so much. He’s been literally USELESS to Canada.

  • laffytaffy
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    1813 days ago

    I’m looking forward to Singh’s next shots fired at PP. preferably asking him when he’s stepping down as the party leader such as any respectable person should do if they lose in their own riding.

  • laffytaffy
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    1413 days ago

    So WHY does he still get paid our tax dollars to do nothing

    • @deltapi@lemmy.world
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      613 days ago

      That’s a great question and the answer is: he shouldn’t be drawing on tax funds. He cannot hold the position of leader of the opposition unless he has a seat, and I can’t find any provision for unelected party members in here.

      • @shawn1122@lemm.ee
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        513 days ago

        An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

          • @shawn1122@lemm.ee
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            412 days ago

            That would be hilarious but they’re going to make sure it’s a conservative stronghold. Sucks for whichever MP gets booted on his behalf but that’s what you get for having a leader like PP.

        • @deltapi@lemmy.world
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          Yes, quite right - but until such time as this takes place, Polivere shouldn’t be paid with taxpayer funds. Maybe there’s a provision in some rule that allows party funds to be used? {/Speculation}

  • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    Well, the voters did fire him.

    Now it’s up to his party to do the same, as they have done with so many other former leaders who lost.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    713 days ago

    And then he said he was gonna stay on as the opposition – even though he can’t sit in parliament right now.

    • Pyr
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      713 days ago

      Well, he can’t quit…he doesn’t have any work experience to get another job elsewhere.

  • @FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca
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    713 days ago

    Do they even have a viable leader to replace little pp? Not that he was much of a leader, but not exactly a party with any members that stand out as leadership material.

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      Charest was the viable alternative last time and he came from outside the party. Carney came from outside politics as well.

      If they do a leadership race someone will be there to fill the void, possibly someone who will pull the party back towards a progressive conservatives agenda since the message was pretty clear, Canada wanted a fiscal conservatives but not a social conservatives.

  • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    Saw Protest the Hero open for BTBAM last night and the lead singer was pretty stoked about PP losing his job and house.

    It was fun watching someone be happy about an election … 🫠

  • @Dearche@lemmy.ca
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    There’s hope that this might not have aged as badly as some think.

    After all, PP might actually get fired as the Cons leader for not doing his job. (Though honestly, I’m rooting for the party to break up. A far right party and extreme right party splitting the votes will only show just how terrible each side is, and with a split, the animosity between them means that neither will gain traction for decades, and hopefully make Canadians realize just how terrible the parties they’ve been voting for really are)

  • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    313 days ago

    Oh do you guys also have that thing where like 90% of your government only shows up to work a few days out of the year but collect paychecks for all 365 days?