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Mark Carney is fumbling on ‘job-killing technologies,’ Avi Lewis charges (www.thestar.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (4 children)

My riding flipped a CPC stronghold voting LPC and green/NDP got less than 5% of the vote combined.

Please stop wasting peoples time with baseless generalizations. Depak Chopra level political wisdom does more harm than good.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (3 children)

    If they were all voting defensively then couldn't the NDP/green/etc win if those votes all went to them?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    In some ridings maybe. But a big problem in ridings out west is that NDP/Green candidates change every cycle meaning that many people are effectively voting based on the party leadership.

    Avi Lewis leadership will hopefully attract stronger candidates that also have the conviction to stick around for multiple election cycles.

    The other thing is there's next to zero provincial/federal cooperation for NDP/Green/ LPC... but culturally the CPC supports the provincial conservative parties.

    The "3rd Party Argument" is an American discussion bleeding north that has little to do with the Canadian political context. Hence why I considering a timewasting generalization.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    My point is that it doesn't avoid culpability. People get what they vote for, if they don't like it then they should be politically active to change it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Absolutely agree.

    But like why is everyone trying to act like LPC voters have buyers remorse or didn't know what they were voting for?

    Like I knew who mark carney was and I decided voting for him would protect my family/community by ensuring their access to life saving medications and social supports. That was my why.

    I would have rather voted NDP but given my riding being a CPC incumbent, and my beleive that a CPC government would jack medication prices, eliminate supports, and possiby mess up the supply chain so that life saving medications become completely unavailabe... i would not have voted for the LPC.

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