Canadian Election 2019

[Pandaguineapig]

Yves-François Blanchet is the Bloc Québécois leader.

The party is running canddiates only in Quebec. The party's goal should be to get at least 12 seats to have official status in Parliament, They haven't had that status in the last eigh years.   

Did the Bloc ever run candidates outside of Quebec?

No,

Why don't they run candidates in New Brunswick? They have a sizable french minority in there.

They're an explicitly Quebec Nationalistic party, it would be like the SNP running candidates in England or Wales

[Pandaguineapig]

Who the hell cares?

I hope the Tories give Trudeau a taste of his own medicine

Yup.  Trudeau ran in 2015 as the biggest SJW to ever SJW.  Time he learns what Cancel Culture is all about.

I think that if Andrew Scheer's comments on gay marriage from almost 20 years ago are fair game, then Zoolander's brownface is too

[Pandaguineapig]

Question;
You can say that Northam's yearbook photo went undetected for so many years because he was a nobody when it was taken and that the media (out of bias or poor journalistic practice) never looked into his background. Trudeau was the son of a former prime Minister and had been groomed for political office for much his adult life, how did nobody find this until now?

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https://twitter.com/BoyerMichel/status/1175072631340638218

Looks like PM blackface wants to desperately change the subject

[Pandaguineapig]

In any case after the publication of the pictures of Trudeau at a minstrel show - the Liberal strategy of dredging up bigoted quotes by Tory candidates form 15 years ago is now DEAD.

This is the biggest effect of the scandal IMO. The Liberal campaign had been going very well until this whole thing, and now they'll have to not only deal with some bad press (which on the face of it isn't a huge deal) but have to re-write their entire strategy in the middle of a campaign. If they lose, it'll be because either they weren't able to find a theme in time or because their new theme didn't resonate, not because of the blackface itself.

it's similar to the fact that governor blackface spent his election campaign smearing Ed Gillespie as a racist. It's not so much the blackface as it is the fact people on the left will use old quotes or outright smears to attack their opponents for that which they themselves are guilty of

[Pandaguineapig]

In any case after the publication of the pictures of Trudeau at a minstrel show - the Liberal strategy of dredging up bigoted quotes by Tory candidates form 15 years ago is now DEAD.

This is the biggest effect of the scandal IMO. The Liberal campaign had been going very well until this whole thing, and now they'll have to not only deal with some bad press (which on the face of it isn't a huge deal) but have to re-write their entire strategy in the middle of a campaign. If they lose, it'll be because either they weren't able to find a theme in time or because their new theme didn't resonate, not because of the blackface itself.

it's similar to the fact that governor blackface spent his election campaign smearing Ed Gillespie as a racist. It's not so much the blackface as it is the fact people on the left will use old quotes or outright smears to attack their opponents for that which they themselves are guilty of

The Northam comparisons are a bit silly tbh, Trudeau has handled this much better than Northam did (but of course, Northam wasn't in the middle of an election campaign). Also, I find a Republican complaining about other people's hypocrisy a bit rich but I don't want this thread to turn into another American politics discussion so I'll leave it at that.

it's the woke-leftist equivalent of a "family values" politician having a gay affair

[Pandaguineapig]

  Is there much discussion about what would happen if Conservatives win the most seats but not that close to a majority?

Depends on how close the conservatives are to a majority, if they're barely ahead of the liberals, the liberals could give concessions to the greens and NDP to establish a government. If the Tories are just short of a majority such a thing would be hard to put together especially if they would need the BQ to join as well

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It looks like the consequence of the Blackface scandal (assuming more pics don't come out) is that it is less of a game changer electorally, but that it neutralizes Liberal attempts to use old comments from Scheer and other Tory candidates against them

[Pandaguineapig]

So... is voting for People's Party just a wasted vote?

Unless you live in Beauce, yes