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We Canucks elected a new government and leader yesterday. Liberal majority from third-place status, longest campaign in a long time, first genuine three-way race, first father-son dynasty.

I for one have a lot of hope for the potential he and his team show, and hope that they get right to work with their promises, many of which reflected my major concerns: get military procurement under control, start democratic reform, and legalize marijuana.

Oh my god, Canada is becoming a communist haven, Canada must be liberated for freedom!!!!!!!

I was happy about the results voted Liberal this year, last election was NDP for me.

He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.


What a fething great guy. Hope he gets prostate cancer ASAP.

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.

Lucky Canada, I wish we'd join them.

Anyway, best of luck to our Canadian-bros. Hope this fellow leads them to prosperity.

Bravo Canada, happy for your result

 BlaxicanX wrote:

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.

Lucky Canada, I wish we'd join them.

Anyway, best of luck to our Canadian-bros. Hope this fellow leads them to prosperity.

Yazedi women & 12 million refugee's don't agree with your stance.

They probably don't agree with our stance on Saudi Arabia and Israel either. Oh well.

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.


What a fething great guy. Hope he gets prostate cancer ASAP.

Jesus Christ. The guy promised that he'd do it in his campaign, and was elected. God forbid he actually keep the promises he was elected on. He also ran on increasing the number of refugees that Canada will take in, and helping train Iraqi forces. He obviously absolutely hates everyone in the area.

But no, feel free to sit there on your moral fething high horse whilst cheerily wishing prostate cancer on someone.

 Goliath wrote:

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.


What a fething great guy. Hope he gets prostate cancer ASAP.

Jesus Christ. The guy promised that he'd do it in his campaign, and was elected. God forbid he actually keep the promises he was elected on. He also ran on increasing the number of refugees that Canada will take in, and helping train Iraqi forces. He obviously absolutely hates everyone in the area.

But no, feel free to sit there on your moral fething high horse whilst cheerily wishing prostate cancer on someone.

It could be worse. Wiggin could have wished ebola on Trudeau.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

 Goliath wrote:

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.


What a fething great guy. Hope he gets prostate cancer ASAP.

Jesus Christ. The guy promised that he'd do it in his campaign, and was elected. God forbid he actually keep the promises he was elected on. He also ran on increasing the number of refugees that Canada will take in, and helping train Iraqi forces. He obviously absolutely hates everyone in the area.

But no, feel free to sit there on your moral fething high horse whilst cheerily wishing prostate cancer on someone.

It could be worse. Wiggin could have wished ebola on Trudeau.

Less likely to happen, what with the complete and utter lack of cases of Ebola in North America. /anti-joke

On topic though, I like this. The guys policies seem fairly sensible to me, he has a fairly down to earth(ish) background, having worked as a teacher for a while, and he's only twice as old as me, which makes him ridiculously young by the normal standard of politicians.

I for one welcome our new overlords.

At first I was like wa....? Then I saw your avatar and I realized, this man is a Zen master of minor perfections.

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.


What a fething great guy. Hope he gets prostate cancer ASAP.

What a tasteless comment. Hope that karma doesn't give it to you instead.

Edit: Not worth it.

The only relevant question is, are the strategic maple reserves safe?

 Frazzled wrote:
The only relevant question is, are the strategic maple reserves safe?

For now it seems, I always knew that the whole push by Harper for the Keystone Pipeline was a result of Obama pressuring him to use it as a cover to channel our maple syrup across the border over to the U.S. in vast quantities. Hopefully Trudeau cleans out this plan and sends over ravenous beavers instead, we'll show you Canadian bacon!

murdog wrote:
... start democratic reform...

O.o

Democratic reform? Canada?

 Peter Wiggin wrote:
He's withdrawing from the fight agsainst ISIS.

Canada was fighting ISIS? When the hell did that happen? We aren't even fighting ISIS.

I'm normally an NDP supporter, but Mulcair and his team really botched the campaign. They went too far to the center to get votes and lost their focus.

I'm still opposed to one or two of the Libs promises, but I ended up voting for them just to get Harper out of office. Mostly happy. Here's to hoping he follows through on the voting reform promise, as that was really one of my most important issues. The fact that they rode in a majority with ~40% of the popular vote makes me skeptical, but hopeful.

A lot of good people in the party though. Libs are in a good spot right now.

Here's to hoping the NDP find themselves and remember their roots as a real left wing socialist democratic party.

 Blacksails wrote:
I'm normally an NDP supporter, but Mulcair and his team really botched the campaign. They went too far to the center to get votes and lost their focus.

I'm still opposed to one or two of the Libs promises, but I ended up voting for them just to get Harper out of office. Mostly happy. Here's to hoping he follows through on the voting reform promise, as that was really one of my most important issues. The fact that they rode in a majority with ~40% of the popular vote makes me skeptical, but hopeful.

A lot of good people in the party though. Libs are in a good spot right now.

Here's to hoping the NDP find themselves and remember their roots as a real left wing socialist democratic party.

Indeed, the NDP right now are a far cry from when they won the official opposition party position under Jack Layton.

I'm sorry, but Trudurp is going to ruin this country. Take a good long look at what's happened to Ontario under over a decade of Lieberal mismanagement & corruption. Now enjoy as our stupidity gets exported nation wide.

Yes, Harper came across as being about as warm as a porcupine, but he did a helluva lot of good for our country. Now we're getting a feel-good lightweight, who's going to "grow the economy from the heart outwards." On top of "the budget will balance itself."

But congrats Canada... on becoming 'Greece North'.

And in the dark depths of the inky void below, a great eye opened, full of malice and greed...

Manifest Destiny II, its whats for breakfast!

Experiment 626 wrote:
I'm sorry, but Trudurp is going to ruin this country. Take a good long look at what's happened to Ontario under over a decade of Lieberal mismanagement & corruption. Now enjoy as our stupidity gets exported nation wide.

Yes, Harper came across as being about as warm as a porcupine, but he did a helluva lot of good for our country. Now we're getting a feel-good lightweight, who's going to "grow the economy from the heart outwards." On top of "the budget will balance itself."

But congrats Canada... on becoming 'Greece North'.

Please List a single good thing the Cons did. I know that you are going to say "The Economy", but I think that is really just Conservative spin, and exploitation of an oil bubble.

Versus:

-Muzzling Scientists
-Rampant corruption
-Apparent disdain for the political process (Prorogation, Omnnibus bills, painful lack of transparency)
-Terrible Environmental policy
-Behaving like a chihuahua towards Russia (a lot of bark, comically little bite)
-Pandering to islamophobia (no-one has asked to wear a niqab in the civil service. Still a campaign issue.)
-Foot dragging on the refugee issue.

Experiment 626 wrote:
I'm sorry, but Trudurp is going to ruin this country. Take a good long look at what's happened to Ontario under over a decade of Lieberal mismanagement & corruption. Now enjoy as our stupidity gets exported nation wide.

Yes, Harper came across as being about as warm as a porcupine, but he did a helluva lot of good for our country. Now we're getting a feel-good lightweight, who's going to "grow the economy from the heart outwards." On top of "the budget will balance itself."

But congrats Canada... on becoming 'Greece North'.

Ontario Liberals =/= Federal Liberals.

As far as many Canadians are concerned, Harper has ruined the country in many other ways than the economy.

Further, Trudeau hasn't promised to balance the budget in the short term.

*Edit* Yeah, as above. There's a longer list on reddit somewhere.

Really though, if the only thing the Libs do is electoral reform, I'm happy and the country will be significantly better off in the long run than the archaic FPTP system.

Good luck with that.

If you guys succeed, that might mean people will be a bit more receptive down here to changing our equally bad system..

 Blacksails wrote:

Experiment 626 wrote:
I'm sorry, but Trudurp is going to ruin this country. Take a good long look at what's happened to Ontario under over a decade of Lieberal mismanagement & corruption. Now enjoy as our stupidity gets exported nation wide.

Yes, Harper came across as being about as warm as a porcupine, but he did a helluva lot of good for our country. Now we're getting a feel-good lightweight, who's going to "grow the economy from the heart outwards." On top of "the budget will balance itself."

But congrats Canada... on becoming 'Greece North'.

Ontario Liberals =/= Federal Liberals.

As far as many Canadians are concerned, Harper has ruined the country in many other ways than the economy.

Further, Trudeau hasn't promised to balance the budget in the short term.

*Edit* Yeah, as above. There's a longer list on reddit somewhere.

Really though, if the only thing the Libs do is electoral reform, I'm happy and the country will be significantly better off in the long run than the archaic FPTP system.

Sorry, but Turp-a-Durp is an absolutely massive tax-and-spend Liberal. His advisors are the same morons who've led Ontario to the point that our average salary is now 5% below the national average. (where beforehand it was more than 10% above the national average)

I know he's "promised" to balance to budget in his 4th year, but trust me, it won't happen... Like our fearless McWynnty government, Ju$tin will never meet a tax dollar he won't be able to piss away.
You cant's spend a country rich!

There is nothing good to come from a national leader who's only job experience is a few years as damn Drama teacher...

Well, admittedly, there is one "good" thing to come of this - cynics & editorial writers have just landed a freaking diamond mine of material!

How do you know this Experiment 626, do you have time travel?

I get it - this is The Internet, but...

...if we could also please dial down the hate, hyperbole and ridiculous statements?

Oh, and how about hoping someone can cure cancer instead?

Experiment 626 wrote:


Turp-a-Durp

It is incredibly hard to take anything you say seriously when you start with petty and childish name calling.

is an absolutely massive tax-and-spend Liberal. His advisors are the same morons who've led Ontario to the point that our average salary is now 5% below the national average. (where beforehand it was more than 10% above the national average)

And no one is arguing that Wynne isn't a terrible Premier. The Liberals look to have a great selection of talented and knowledgeable MPs that can fill all the cabinet slots and perform well in their roles. Time will tell how it all plays out.

I know he's "promised" to balance to budget in his 4th year, but trust me, it won't happen... Like our fearless McWynnty government, Ju$tin will never meet a tax dollar he won't be able to piss away.
You cant's spend a country rich!

Remember how many surpluses Harper posted?

If you're going to be worried about deficits and the like, at least show some amount of rational thought and admit that Harper didn't balance the budget often.

There is nothing good to come from a national leader who's only job experience is a few years as damn Drama teacher...

Except for winning all the elections he needed to get where he is now.

He didn't just go from being a teacher one day to Prime Minister.

Well, admittedly, there is one "good" thing to come of this - cynics & editorial writers have just landed a freaking diamond mine of material!

Mature.

/happy dance

the best part about the election was how it was the longest campaign in history:

"The ensuing campaign spanned 78 days from the dissolution of Parliament to the election, one of the longest campaigns in Canadian history. "

what's america up to for the 2016 elections? 4 years?