That happened years before Justin went into politics. I get why people find it disgusting now.I guess his minority outreach program worked.
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You were. But there are many people here who don't consider it a joke.Was making a joke Valka....
Centre Leftism safe again. These types of parties are having a good run recently, Norway, California, Canada. Next Germany.
Dunno if I would smoothly describe the Canadian Libs as purely centre left. They've got a chunk of soft progressive support, but they've also managed to stake out a chunk terrain further to the right than that, while the union movement and social democratic politics, typically a marker of the centre left, are quite bound up with the NDP as well.
Canada is a bit quirky in that it's one of the very few places where a centrist liberal party became a dominant party of government instead of becoming a marginalised business lobby group like in Germany or straight up nationalist conservatives like in Australia and Japan. Instead, they've managed to prevent the conservatives from monopolising business/capitalist interests, and keep enough of a progressive/left element to prevent the unionist party from gaining further ground.
Yeah, I did the math, and O'Toole needs both the BQ and NDP to cooperate in a non-confidence vote, if they're so inclined. And at this point, I don't think any of the parties would be inclined.One election follower seems to think Liberals are on track for about 160 seats once mail-in ballots push them over the edge in some seats Currently at 158, was at 155 when he made the prediction, so a few more. Could be a bit over depending again on the mail-in ballots. So just short of the majority threshold of 170.
But that means he only needs either the Bloc or the NDP, not both which was what some expectations a little while ago said.
For the country, yes. For Albertans who hate, loathe, and despise our provincial government? HELL, yes. We were absolutely dreading the combination of O'Toole federally and Kenney provincially, as both were (and still are) Harperites who may pretend to give a damn about anyone who isn't wealthy and/or connected to corporate interests, but their policies and actions say otherwise.So good news relatively?
Did he really say that he'd be willing to put us through another election in 18 months? He's skating on really thin ice at this point. I can't fathom there not being a backroom clique getting ready to take him out if things don't turn around soon.This election was a monumental waste of time and resources, and further evidence of Trudeau's arrogance and poor judgement.
Dunno if I would smoothly describe the Canadian Libs as purely centre left. They've got a chunk of soft progressive support, but they've also managed to stake out a chunk terrain further to the right than that, while the union movement and social democratic politics, typically a marker of the centre left, are quite bound up with the NDP as well.
Canada is a bit quirky in that it's one of the very few places where a centrist liberal party became a dominant party of government instead of becoming a marginalised business lobby group like in Germany or straight up nationalist conservatives like in Australia and Japan. Instead, they've managed to prevent the conservatives from monopolising business/capitalist interests, and keep enough of a progressive/left element to prevent the unionist party from gaining further ground.
Still, the NDP did make gains at the expense of the Libs, so that's good.
I mean I'd be surprised if any political party could win something one thousand years in the past.in the Anglo-Saxon world
What is the correct term to refer to the countries dominated by the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons/English/British?I mean I'd be surprised if any political party could win something one thousand years in the past.
I mean, the Anglo-Saxons were defeated and assimilated by the Normans close to a millenia ago, so regardless of any semantics of what we could call countries now, it's still inaccurate to call things "Anglo-Saxon". I wasn't exactly getting technical about it, I was making a bit of a jokeWhat is the correct term to refer to the countries dominated by the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons/English/British?