Canada sleepwalks into the future

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 4:10pm |

Canada’s election is everything America’s 2020 race isn’t: It’s polite, predictable and decidedly low-key.
Besides a late intervention by Obama on behalf of Trudeau, the election is generally seen as too inconsequential for non-Canadians to comment on.https://t.co/DmRF3N1srF
— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) October 21, 2019

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/canada-election-political-challenges-052249

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Canadian Broadcasting Co. calls the race for Trudeau.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/oct/22/canada-election-2019-justin-trudeau-faces-reckoning-as-polls-predict-close-result-live

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 10:10pm

If you combine the @liberal_party, @NDP, and @CanadianGreens seats at the moment (146+20+1), you're still 3 seats short of cobbling together a majority government. #elxn43 #cdnpoli
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) October 22, 2019

170 seats gets you a majority government. At the moment, the @liberal_party has 150, the @NDP 19, the @CanadianGreens 1. That's a bare majority. But it ain't over yet. #cdnpoli #elxn43
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) October 22, 2019

.@stephenharper won 99 seats in 2015. @AndrewScheer is at 101 seats at the moment. #cdnpoli #elxn43
— Steve Paikin (@spaikin) October 22, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 10:36pm

David Frum retweeted; note there is a link to live results and analysis

In @QC_125's final projection, he wrote that this election might be the closest in decades. For proof of the apparent closeness of the race, just look at this final poll aggregation. Follow more #elxn43 analysis in our live blog here: https://t.co/49vlAvP7vD pic.twitter.com/c761LSDpY4
— Maclean's Magazine (@macleans) October 21, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 10:49pm

Sweet Justice! Canada‘s populist-like candidate Maxime Bernier, who ran on an anti-immigrant platform, couldn’t keep his seat. #cdnpoli
— Bessma Momani (@b_momani) October 22, 2019

Maxime “Mad Max” Bernier, leader of Canada’s populist People’s Party lost his seat; the party’s bad showing underscored that anti-immigrant populism doesn’t work as a national movement in Canada, where there is a general consensus that immigration is a good thing.
— Dan Bilefsky (@DanBilefsky) October 22, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 10:53pm

“Mr. Scheer focused his campaign on Mr. Trudeau’s character — calling him a ‘fraud’ who is ‘always wearing a mask’ — rather than putting forward his own defining vision for the nation beyond cutting taxes.”https://t.co/p9d2F2L74W
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) October 22, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 11:35pm

The wife of imprisoned Saudi dissident Raif Badawi:

Today is one of the greatest days of my life, my voice has value. Today, I join my fellow Canadians in the choice of who represents us by participating in the most significant aspect of democracy, elections!#ItsOurVote #cdnpoli #elxn43
— Ensaf Haidar (@miss9afi) October 22, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 2:06am

current headline story @ Politico.com: How Justin Trudeau survived

He may be diminished, but he will remain Canada’s prime minister

By Alexander Panetta and Lauren Gardner, Oct. 22

MONTREAL — Justin Trudeau chose his enemies well — and secured a little help from a friend named Barack Obama. He was contrite following a racism scandal, waited out a corruption probe and banked on the appeal of his liberal policies and the positive press from his trade tangling with Donald Trump.

The result: Trudeau may be diminished, personally and politically — but he’s still Prime Minister of Canada.

Monday’s elections saw the once-ascendant heir to Canadian political royalty taken down a peg, with his Liberals losing their majority.

He’ll now lead a minority government that will have to cut deals to advance any of its priorities — a fate his late father, Pierre Trudeau, also endured in the 1970s. Such governments normally last about two years. Some deals — like the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — will be winnable. Some dynamics — like dealing with the conservative Western reaches of Canada — will be difficult.

Trudeau became the first Canadian leader in decades to lose the popular vote and win the election. He did it with a far more efficient vote distribution that pulled in scores more seats in Ontario, while Conservatives ran up the score in the less-populous west.

It could have been far worse for Trudeau [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 2:58am

FATAH: Only the Bloc won - the rest of Canada lost https://t.co/Nun8jfhSkI pic.twitter.com/9hCRNFgEOn
— Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) October 23, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/23/2019 - 7:40pm

Canada sleepwalks into the future

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