Well in this riding yeah - my point is that in FPTP every vote matters in some ridings, but in many, it just doesn’t

Not really though, I live in Red Deer. It’d take 3/4ths of the Conservative voters to sleep in (in addition to the ones who already did) for my vote to have made a difference.

In ridings where it’s close-ish, you can still trigger trends that result in more spending on your riding, but when it’s 80:20 your riding will always be ignored. FPTP sucks.

So if there’s a tie, it triggers a byelection? How weird!

Carney has spoken a lot about using AI to lower the operating costs of government. I don’t think the minister is there strictly to regulate.

I’d still lean more towards her being a useful idiot, because as mentioned she necessarily courts all these conspiracy theories to keep the UCP together. But yeah, whether via Russian influence or her own stupidity, she is hugely responsible for this.

Russia is for sure sowing seeds of doubt across all sorts of movements to politically disrupt us, but the whole reason separation is being taken at all seriously rests entirely on Danielle Smith. She thinks that legitimizing their concerns means that the UCP will stay together because the entire party is built on the idea of sharing a tent with fringe crazies. She’s also encouraging all the talk about it because it is distracting from the government’s ongoing scandals.

They also seem to have a better climate change story than anyone in north america

They lied about covid numbers, so I don’t really trust their pollution numbers either, but they make some kind of “one step forwards, two steps back” progress because they keep building new coal power plants.

and USA has totally shown itself to be a mercurial alley.

The US is absolutely a shithole now, I don’t think we should look to them for EVs either.

I don’t see what advantage high tariffs have on something we want more of (EV’s). If the standards suck, then I’m ok with bringing them up to standard and charging for that. Making this an either or “they are or aren’t our enemies” seems unnecessary, when we could buy their things and put pressure on them to do better on the things at the top.

So, Trump kind of ruined saying tariffs as a solution to anything, but they are a tool to apply pressure to trade partners. Huge tariffs on Chinese EVs isn’t contributing to our cost of living crisis, because we can get EVs from elsewhere for decent prices, and because EVs are a super luxury item anyway.

There’s no pressure applied if we buy their EVs at cost. We don’t realistically have enough global political power to apply any political pressure either.

Tell that to the vast majority of ridings where it doesn’t really matter :/

This is just something we copy from US. There’s a need to befriend lesser enemies, though China has never threatened us.

Nonsense. They’re an existential threat to good allies like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and support other threats including Russia and North Korea.

Edit: And if you need specific risks to Canada, don’t forget the Chinese police stations, the 2 Michaels being detained, and interfering with our elections.

No.

• Their labour standards are way too low which means countries with good standards cannot compete (tariffs can balance this out though)
• They’re a foreign adversary so we should minimize our tech reliance on them as much as possible
• We don’t “need” cheap cars

Agreed. Could you imagine if hospital care was means-tested lol.

Not dog whistling the anti science crowd by saying there’s “some” evidence (there isn’t) that it might not be safe.

It’s really not reasonable, it’s the same language and “skepticism” from anti vaxxers. We shouldn’t be tolerant of this from political leaders just because we kinda like them.

Elizabeth May is from the old school granola hippie crowd in Victoria, she’s a great legal mind but not scientific.

I think the only people looking at riding projections or riding history are us nerds who discuss politics on lemmy. I think strategic voting in the general public is very real, but it seems to more take the form of “I normally vote NDP and will vote Liberal this time” rather than digging into the politics of their riding.

who cares why, why announce it lmao

I’m a software developer in Canada. I’ve only ever heard “day ta”

Squinty lizard-person is making fun of the candidate that looks like a real person?

Ah, yes, it’s because she’s a woman and not because she sold our province to the Americans

Something I’ve wondered is how the poll aggregators apply the vote % to regional breakdowns / seat estimates. Are they using the voting patterns from previous elections, or is there polling data broken down by seat?

So if voting patterns changed significantly without overall vote % changing much, the results could still be very very different, correct?

It’s ABC, but it’s also the result of Singh. NDP was neck and neck with Liberals when the Liberals were polling poorly, which could’ve been the NDP’s chance. If Singh still doesn’t get replaced after this election, I don’t think the NDP is going to fare well.