Some of the NOW what’s are interesting:
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Although Hudson only informed Elections Canada that he wouldn’t be running on Monday morning, he said he didn’t intentionally step down so close to the deadline to ensure that the People’s Party wouldn’t have a candidate in West Nova.
Come on. No one is going to believe that; why not take credit?
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Dunno. I’m not him. However the guy is a fiscal conservative, so it may be that he doesn’t want to blot his escutcheon altogether with the right. I suspect his real problem is that he is a true Canadian small-c conservative (would have been Red Tory in the past), and the Overton window has moved well to the right of what he can swallow.
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Yeah. It’d be nice if the sane Conservatives split off from time to time, to form a centrist party, rather than having the wingnuts split off again and again.
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Frankly, I don’t mind if the wingnuts split off - that’s what happened with Reform at the end of Mulroney’s tenure, and both parties, PC and Reform, didn’t do so well. It’s when the wingnuts merge back in holding the upper hand that you get Harper et al.
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I just have the vain hope that if the centrists split off, then when they merge back, the party will be pulled to the left of where it started (judging by the opposite tending to happen when the wingnuts have split off).
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This is a tough one.
On the one hand, his stance on the niqab question (arguably single-handedly) dropped Mulcair from being the frontrunner in 2015 to the restoration of the NDP to its historical place as the perennial third-place finisher.
On the other hand, Mulcair was right. Not “right” in the sense that he picked the answer that would win him an election, but right, in that he chose the only moral answer to the question, the only answer consistent with what Canada claims are its values.
So, this had to be a tough choice for Singh, to not come out swinging against a law that would prevent him from holding any public office in the province of Quebec, or to pretty much guarantee the loss of the few seats remaining from Jack Layton’s Orange Wave in la belle province.
I respect the bejeezus out of Mulcair for his choice in 2015, and I’m still resentful that Canadians showed some ugly true colours by turning against him for that choice.
… But I don’t think I can blame Singh for not following that same path, knowing it’s an electoral non-starter. Especially since he’s not choosing the personally easier path here: a white guy might be able to take comfort in willful ignorance, but there’s no question that Singh knows exactly what that law signifies.
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A handy guide for who is promising what this election.
Current status: still waffling between Green and NDP, but leaning Green. I’ve yet to watch the local all-candidates debate, which will probably be the tie-breaker.
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Well, this says it well, although one also needs to question the hubris that pushed wholesale changes to the downtown bus routes before they had used the system enough to shake out all the problems…
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To all those playing along at home: two hours till the countdown starts.
If you haven’t yet, GET YOUR ASS OUT AND VOTE.
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Yes. No matter what the right-wing robocalls have told you, Election Day is today, not tomorrow.
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I am home sick. It is not super safe for me to stray too far from the bathroom.
Luckily my polling station is literally next door or it would have been riskier, but I still would have tried it. Because it is that important.
But I have had this date seared into my brain for a few weeks now, and I can’t remember the dates of anything.
So now it’s wait on tenterhooks… not a good thing in my condition, but there is nothing left that I can do.
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Sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon. When my choice is clear, and there is little chance of me changing my mind, I try to vote in the advance polls to avoid such contingencies.
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It’s the “literally next door” thing that keeps me to Election day.
Most times it’s fine. Today I had a flareup.
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Hope you feel better soon! Glad you made it to the polls.
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Sweet FSM, they did that AGAIN?
We need something heavier than threatening fines for pulling crap like that. Fines for real would be a start, but I’m thinking jail time.
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Works for me.
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