Canada 2008: Official Thread

[defe07]

Which two ridings do they have a deal [qm]

Central Nova and Saint-Laurent-Cartierville. In the former, no Liberal candidate is opposing May. In Dion's riding, there's no Greenie.

I also read somewhere that the Tories aren't running a candidate against Independent Andre Arthur in Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier.  They don't want to risk splitting the federalist vote, or so the story goes.

The Greens are also, as mentioned earlier, not running a candidate against Bill Casey (basically so May can hammer MacKay on the Atlantic Accord).

Wait! Did the Greens make an agreement with any party? In countries like Chile, the Concertación and the Juntos Podemos just reached an agreement for this year's township elections to have one alliance not run a candidate against the other one if the partner alliance does the same.  

[Hash]

Seems like all major parties have nominated a candidate in my riding.

Mauril Bélanger, Liberal. Incumbent since 1995 by-election.
Patrick Glémaud, Conservative. Haitian born. Looking at his internetz page, he sounds like a typical Republican (family fluff, tough on crime, low taxes). And God, he's ugly.
Trevor Haché, NDP. I could've sworn it would've been Ric Dagenais. Who cares. But unlike Dagenais, he seems to be able to write French.
Akbar Manoussi, Greenie. Iranian descent and Muslim. Seems decent. Was GPO candidate in Orleans in 07.
Mike St-Onge, CAP. Joke who is running for a fascist 9/11 conspiracy theorist party. Ran in St-Hyacinthe-Bagot by-election in 07 for the CAP.

It seems like the Stalinists haven't nominated a candidate yet. They've run in every election since '93.

[Hash]

Which two ridings do they have a deal [qm]

Central Nova and Saint-Laurent-Cartierville. In the former, no Liberal candidate is opposing May. In Dion's riding, there's no Greenie.

I also read somewhere that the Tories aren't running a candidate against Independent Andre Arthur in Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier.  They don't want to risk splitting the federalist vote, or so the story goes.

The Greens are also, as mentioned earlier, not running a candidate against Bill Casey (basically so May can hammer MacKay on the Atlantic Accord).

Wait! Did the Greens make an agreement with any party?

Yes. The Libs. As mentioned earlier.

[Verily]

Seems like all major parties have nominated a candidate in my riding.

Mauril Bélanger, Liberal. Incumbent since 1995 by-election.
Patrick Glémaud, Conservative. Haitian born. Looking at his internetz page, he sounds like a typical Republican (family fluff, tough on crime, low taxes). And God, he's ugly.
Trevor Haché, NDP. I could've sworn it would've been Ric Dagenais. Who cares. But unlike Dagenais, he seems to be able to write French.
Akbar Manoussi, Greenie. Iranian descent and Muslim. Seems decent. Was GPO candidate in Orleans in 07.
Mike St-Onge, CAP. Joke who is running for a fascist 9/11 conspiracy theorist party. Ran in St-Hyacinthe-Bagot by-election in 07 for the CAP.

It seems like the Stalinists haven't nominated a candidate yet. They've run in every election since '93.

I thought the CAP were the Social Credit true believers. When did they become 9/11 conspiracy theorists?

[minionofmidas]

Patrick Glémaud, Conservative. Haitian born. Looking at his internetz page, he sounds like a typical Republican (family fluff, tough on crime, low taxes). And God, he's ugly.

OMG Racist!1!1!

[Hash]

Seems like all major parties have nominated a candidate in my riding.

Mauril Bélanger, Liberal. Incumbent since 1995 by-election.
Patrick Glémaud, Conservative. Haitian born. Looking at his internetz page, he sounds like a typical Republican (family fluff, tough on crime, low taxes). And God, he's ugly.
Trevor Haché, NDP. I could've sworn it would've been Ric Dagenais. Who cares. But unlike Dagenais, he seems to be able to write French.
Akbar Manoussi, Greenie. Iranian descent and Muslim. Seems decent. Was GPO candidate in Orleans in 07.
Mike St-Onge, CAP. Joke who is running for a fascist 9/11 conspiracy theorist party. Ran in St-Hyacinthe-Bagot by-election in 07 for the CAP.

It seems like the Stalinists haven't nominated a candidate yet. They've run in every election since '93.

I thought the CAP were the Social Credit true believers. When did they become 9/11 conspiracy theorists?

Yeah. They're SoCreds too. In 2006, they added a thing on a 'truth commission' on 9/11 to their platform.

Their website counts 9/11 as a major electoral issue.

[Hatman 🍁]

Ekos will be doing it's polling by robot it seems, from what I read on their site, and overheard at work today. What a stupid idea It'll be interesting to see what whacky results it'll produce.

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Ekos will be doing it's polling by robot it seems, from what I read on their site, and overheard at work today. What a stupid idea It'll be interesting to see what whacky results it'll produce.

My trash can is ready to welcome their polls.

[Hatman 🍁]

Patrick Glemaud seemed like a nice guy when he spoke to my class last year. Too bad the prof couldn't find a tory MP to speak to us like the other two parties.

[ottermax]

Just for Canada I became a Green!

I think they can win at least one seat. The environment seems like such a big issue and the liberals seem quite unpopular.

[Verily]

Just for Canada I became a Green!

I think they can win at least one seat. The environment seems like such a big issue and the liberals seem quite unpopular.

Well, if you're going to be excited... seats to watch include:

Central Nova (Elizabeth May, the party leader)
Guelph (which was about to be a by-election where the Greens were strong challengers)
Vancouver Centre (the former leader of the BC Greens is running there)
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound (best Green result in 2006 and 33% in the 2007 Ontario election)
West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea-to-Sky-Country (Green defector is the incumbent)
Saanich-Gulf Islands (best Green result ever federally in a GE in 2004)

Also fun to watch might be Wild Rose, an ultra-safe Conservative seat where the Greens took second in 2006. (They won't win it, needless to say.)

[MaxQue]

The Liberals are not very creative. Their slogan is ''Ensemble, tout est possible'' (Together, all is possible). When I heard that, I think of Sarkosy in France last year. His slogan was ''Ensemble, tout devient possible'' (Together, all becomes possible).

In my riding, Abitibi--Baie James--Nunavik--Eeyou, in northern Quebec, only two candidates are known.

Yvon Lévesque, BQ, is the incumbent since 2004.
Jean-Maurice Matte, Conservative. He is the mayor of the fourth largest city of the riding. He is elected by the retired.
NDP. No candidate for now. Not surprising.

Liberals. No candidate for now. Surprising since they held the seat 1997-2004. On September 7th, the Liberals' website said than Ronald Tétrault was the candidate but they suppress his name after that day. He was a member of the provincial legislature 1970-1973, mayor of the main city of the riding 1976-1980 and 1992-2000. He finished third to the mayoral election. In 2005, he finished third in an election to be a municipal councillor. He is going in the wrong direction. He began to the top and finish to the bottom. 

[minionofmidas]

Just for Canada I became a Green!

While I'll be ceasing to be a Green just for Canada soon - right after the Austrian election, my old NDP-AB avatar will be making a comeback.

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On the subject, the Libs are having trouble finding candidates in Quebec apparently. Only 45/75 when I last checked.

[Cubby]

On the subject, the Libs are having trouble finding candidates in Quebec apparently. Only 45/75 when I last checked.

Boo!

What is the Bloc's relationship with the Conservatives like? I know they aren't close ideologically but would they ever form a coalition if needed?

I'm going to change my avatar soon to a Canadian Province, in honor of this election. I'm still thinking about which one. I like Manitoba for some reason. Is there anything bad about MB that I should know?

[Verily]

Angus Reid has some crap out.

Con: 38
Lib: 24
NDP: 21
BQ: 9
Green: 7

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Canadian Electorate being what it is, all polls should be taken with a few crates of salt until we hit the last few weeks (ie; not because polls now must be inaccurate, it's just that them Canadians do have a habit of changing their minds en masse in the last few days...)

[Hash]

On the subject, the Libs are having trouble finding candidates in Quebec apparently. Only 45/75 when I last checked.

Boo!

What is the Bloc's relationship with the Conservatives like? I know they aren't close ideologically but would they ever form a coalition if needed?

After what Duceppe said about Harper in the kickoff to his campaign, I have a lot of trouble seeing him work with the Forces of Darkness.

Angus Reid has some crap out.

Con: 38
Lib: 24
NDP: 21
BQ: 9
Green: 7

Haha. Direction: trash can.

According to that poll, the NDP is at 18% in Quebec, with the Liberals at 12%. Lol.

Is there anything bad about MB that I should know?

Yes. It includes Winnipeg. *gasp*


BTW, the Greenies will participate in the leaders' debate after all. The NDP and the Forces of Darkness have backed down.

[minionofmidas]

The Canadian Electorate being what it is, all polls should be taken with a few crates of salt until we hit the last few weeks (ie; not because polls now must be inaccurate, it's just that them Canadians do have a habit of changing their minds en masse in the last few days...)

I agree. Canadians should be taken with salt.

[Хahar 🤔]

The Canadian Electorate being what it is, all polls should be taken with a few crates of salt until we hit the last few weeks (ie; not because polls now must be inaccurate, it's just that them Canadians do have a habit of changing their minds en masse in the last few days...)

I agree. Canadians should be taken with salt.

Salted Canadians. Yum.

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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=R2hHbaE0yqY

Dear Leader's ad. (Now pulled).

[MaxQue]

On the subject, the Libs are having trouble finding candidates in Quebec apparently. Only 45/75 when I last checked.

On their website, they have 72/75 candidates in Quebec. Only Abitibi--Baie James--Nunavik--Eeyou, Manicouagan and Repentigny are missing.

[Hash]

On the subject, the Libs are having trouble finding candidates in Quebec apparently. Only 45/75 when I last checked.

On their website, they have 72/75 candidates in Quebec. Only Abitibi--Baie James--Nunavik--Eeyou, Manicouagan and Repentigny are missing.

Pundits' Guide reported only 46 at 16:00 today, and jumped to 70 right now.

Weird.

[Hash]

btw, nominations progress

Libs 272/307 (88%)
NDP 196/308 (64%)
Greenies 151/306 (49%)
Bloc 57/75
Cons 291/308 (94%)

Ind 13
Others 54

[Meeker]

Wasn't there some talk a few years ago of the Bloc running candidates in some of the Francophone ridings in the Maritimes and Saskatchewan? I seem to recall reading it somewhere.