Elections Canadian Federal Election 2019 Thread

Crazy Diamond said:
No, it's not besides the point. It's precisely the point. It's the province that is responsible for this. Just as medical providers always scam charge extra for services provided by private insurance just because they can, they're doing the same to the military. There is no reason any province in Canada should charge a member of the military who resides there any more than a civilian is charged. What is laughably described here as the federal government cutting off funding to provincial hospitals is actually just them stopping the province from over charging, in turn inappropriately diverting federal funds in to provincial coffers, rather than charging the same prices they charge civilians.
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At the expense of service members, make sure you include that. Obviously the provincial government shouldn’t be billing higher for individuals because they’re military, but to cut it without putting a system
or program in place to mitigate the effects on the member is irresponsible. I’m not eligible for provincial health care, so if the provincial government can’t figure it out and the federal government doesn’t want to be responsible for it then we get hung out to dry.
 
According to CBC, the polls are currently indicating that the best the Trudeau liberals can hope for is a minority government. This is due to the BQ and NDP gaining in popularity. It is interesting that the media focused on Bernier splitting the vote with the conservatives, but it seems that the real issue is the NDP taking votes from the liberals. I just hope the NDP can take enough votes away for the conservatives to win at least a minority government.

The CBC is also saying that the Greens are polling decently in BC which will also take away seats from the Liberals. It could be the Greens, NDP and Bloc that help take down the liberals. Bernier's party is a non-factor.

Poll Tracker

With the Bloc Québécois gaining in Quebec, the Liberals have lost their seat advantage over the Conservatives and are now neck-and-neck in both the national polls and the seat projection. A majority government looks unlikely. The New Democrats have seen their support levels increase since the English-language debate, while the Greens are holding their support.

The regional picture
The Conservatives are ahead in western Canada while the Liberals are ahead in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Both the Conservatives and Liberals have seen their support drop in Quebec as the Bloc rises. The New Democrats are on track to lose most or all of their seats in Quebec but can hold their seats and potentially make some gains in the rest of the country. The Greens are holding double-digits in B.C., where they can win seats, as well as in Atlantic Canada. The People's Party has yet to show the concentration of support in any region of the country needed to win a seat, beyond potentially leader Maxime Bernier's.
 
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Devout Pessimist said:
According to CBC, the polls are currently indicating that the best the Trudeau liberals can hope for is a minority government. This is due to the BQ and NDP gaining in popularity. It is interesting that the media focused on Bernier splitting the vote with the conservatives, but it seems that the real issue is the NDP taking votes from the liberals. I just hope the NDP can take enough votes away for the conservatives to win at least a minority government.

The CBC is also saying that the Greens are polling decently in BC which will also take away seats from the Liberals. It could be the Greens, NDP and Bloc that help take down the liberals. Bernier's party is a non-factor.

Poll Tracker

With the Bloc Québécois gaining in Quebec, the Liberals have lost their seat advantage over the Conservatives and are now neck-and-neck in both the national polls and the seat projection. A majority government looks unlikely. The New Democrats have seen their support levels increase since the English-language debate, while the Greens are holding their support.

The regional picture
The Conservatives are ahead in western Canada while the Liberals are ahead in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Both the Conservatives and Liberals have seen their support drop in Quebec as the Bloc rises. The New Democrats are on track to lose most or all of their seats in Quebec but can hold their seats and potentially make some gains in the rest of the country. The Greens are holding double-digits in B.C., where they can win seats, as well as in Atlantic Canada. The People's Party has yet to show the concentration of support in any region of the country needed to win a seat, beyond potentially leader Maxime Bernier's.
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Liberal minority would be a good result IMO.
 
Devout Pessimist said:
According to CBC, the polls are currently indicating that the best the Trudeau liberals can hope for is a minority government. This is due to the BQ and NDP gaining in popularity. It is interesting that the media focused on Bernier splitting the vote with the conservatives, but it seems that the real issue is the NDP taking votes from the liberals. I just hope the NDP can take enough votes away for the conservatives to win at least a minority government.

The CBC is also saying that the Greens are polling decently in BC which will also take away seats from the Liberals. It could be the Greens, NDP and Bloc that help take down the liberals. Bernier's party is a non-factor.

Poll Tracker

With the Bloc Québécois gaining in Quebec, the Liberals have lost their seat advantage over the Conservatives and are now neck-and-neck in both the national polls and the seat projection. A majority government looks unlikely. The New Democrats have seen their support levels increase since the English-language debate, while the Greens are holding their support.

The regional picture
The Conservatives are ahead in western Canada while the Liberals are ahead in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Both the Conservatives and Liberals have seen their support drop in Quebec as the Bloc rises. The New Democrats are on track to lose most or all of their seats in Quebec but can hold their seats and potentially make some gains in the rest of the country. The Greens are holding double-digits in B.C., where they can win seats, as well as in Atlantic Canada. The People's Party has yet to show the concentration of support in any region of the country needed to win a seat, beyond potentially leader Maxime Bernier's.
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This is potentially worse than a liberal majority. The greens and the NDP have a number of policies that - if they’re workable at all - will cost billions of dollars, and their only answer on how to pay for those is “more taxes on the rich and corporations” (newsflash guys: people and corporations are actually free to leave Canada which they might do if you’re going to use them for funding your pie in the sky projects like national pharma and dental care). Then there’s the far left stance on social issues which are cornerstones of both platforms. If the Liberals form a minority and have to team up with the NDP or the Greens (or both), these utopian economic policies and far left social policies will work their way into legislation to some degree over the next few years. The liberals at least want to build a pipeline...the NDP wants to give each province veto powers over projects like pipelines, effectively ensuring that there will never be another pipeline built in Canada.

I’m worried the conservatives are done. Their platform is the most practical, but they’re doing a piss poor job of properly getting that message out to Canadians and Scheer has remained just as uninspiring a leader throughout this campaign as before.

What we’ll get is a government obsessed with solving climate change, reconciliation and further expanding our Medicare system which is already a massive burden on the budget. Seriously, if you count the Conservatives out (hopefully they’re not) you might be better off hoping for a Liberal majority than the SJW Frankenmonster that would be the alliance of the Canadian left.
 
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Wet Blanket said:
Liberal minority would be a good result IMO.
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a coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition?

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Err said:
At the expense of service members, make sure you include that. Obviously the provincial government shouldn’t be billing higher for individuals because they’re military, but to cut it without putting a system
or program in place to mitigate the effects on the member is irresponsible. I’m not eligible for provincial health care, so if the provincial government can’t figure it out and the federal government doesn’t want to be responsible for it then we get hung out to dry.
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Sure, and you could well ask whether there was any intergovernmental discussion prior to the move; you could ask whether the provincial government should immediately move to cover the shortfall; and you could ask, why now, and are all the provinces like this? Because none of that information is available from the article. And why? Whatever could be the reason for the emphasis on "look at what the Trudeau government did, for shame" rather than on the context of what led up to it?
 
Grenz said:
This is potentially worse than a liberal majority. The greens and the NDP have a number of policies that - if they’re workable at all - will cost billions of dollars, and their only answer on how to pay for those is “more taxes on the rich and corporations” (newsflash guys: people and corporations are actually free to leave Canada which they might do if you’re going to use them for funding your pie in the sky projects like national pharma and dental care). Then there’s the far left stance on social issues which are cornerstones of both platforms. If the Liberals form a minority and have to team up with the NDP or the Greens (or both), these utopian economic policies and far left social policies will work their way into legislation to some degree over the next few years. The liberals at least want to build a pipeline...the NDP wants to give each province veto powers over projects like pipelines, effectively ensuring that there will never be another pipeline built in Canada.

I’m worried the conservatives are done. Their platform is the most practical, but they’re doing a piss poor job of properly getting that message out to Canadians and Scheer has remained just as uninspiring a leader throughout this campaign as before.

What we’ll get is a government obsessed with solving climate change, reconciliation further expanding our Medicare system which is already a massive burden on the budget. Seriously, if you count the Conservatives out (hopefully they’re not) you might be better off hoping for a Liberal majority than the SJW Frankenmonster that would be the alliance of the Canadian left.
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This is exactly what I'm hoping for.

Fingers crossed!
 
Liberal minority is not happening. Scheer is taking power, for better or for worse.
 
IGotAHugePeckah said:
Liberal minority is not happening. Scheer is taking power, for better or for worse.
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I really haven't been paying attention to polls., but let's not kid ourselves, it's either a Liberal or a Conservative government.
 
IGotAHugePeckah said:
Wow, that's a bold prediction, fella.

Either a Liberal or Conservative government... kinda like it's been the last 152 years running?
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yeah I'm fully aware it wasn't a big statement. But it could very well be a Liberal minority, I don't know why you're saying it is not happening.
 
Will the CBC get their big payday if the liberals win a minority?
 
Wet Blanket said:
My views align best with the NDP, second best with Liberals, then Greens. So, pretty much for the reasons you stated above.
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Which views exactly? Healthcare? Environment? Housing? Etc.
 
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