Non-voters should count as a party, and that seat should abstain from every vote in Parliament except non-confidence votes.

he’s very likely to win again in this week’s election

how many iterations until you get a minute of video you’re happy with?

How could Trudeau have handled his resignation in a way that would have been acceptable to you? The party leader serves an important function for the election process, and people would rightfully complain if he ran in the election with the intent to step down.

He could have privately held successor conversations behind closed doors and announced that someone else would take over for him during the election, but that wouldn’t be inclusive of the opinions of Liberal voters and people would complain.

He could have immediately stepped down and called an election and the Liberals could have run without a leader. That would be unacceptable to all Liberal voters and many others and would be a stupid move.

When you have a system where the party or coalition with the most seats in Parliament elects the Prime Minister, I don’t see what options you have that would satisfy bad faith arguments like yours.

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they put their heads together and came up with “he’s just like Justin” lol.

it’s amazing they still have the support they do

I think your opinion is heavily influenced by American politics and doesn’t align with how parliamentary democracies work.

If Parliament is “we the people” and they vote to make decisions on every aspect of governance as your representative, how come them electing the Prime Minister is so offensive to you?

You shouldn’t even really be voting purely along party lines, you elect your local representative and they represent you. You should evaluate them on their own merits. They often vote along party lines, but even if “your party” wins your local election or even the most seats that doesn’t mean they get to form government without the support of a majority of Parliament. It’s always been this way, at no point do you ever make a direct decision on who leads.

I never gave it much thought either but now I’m inspired to look it up, maybe they began that way but the policies shifted and the colors didn’t. My American history is not great but I think that might line up with the Republicans at least

EDIT: Wow more recent and arbitrary than I thought https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

We don’t elect the PM

Happy to help, awareness of global politics is becoming crucial and we Canadians will need a lot of help so the least I can do is educate others about our politics.

I agree, learning about the UK system and watching the recent election I was noticing how similar things are both in terms of public opinions but also the mechanics of it all.

I hope we will continue to grow closer together, Canada needs the Commonwealth and/or Europe now more than ever.

The good news is, even if Conservatives win (hopefully just a minority…) what I’ve seen from fellow Canadians this year so far has been inspiring. Stores are adjusting their supply chains to bring in more domestic and non-American international goods due to changes in demand, the number of Canadians crossing the border into USA has plummeted compared to past years, and our military is hitting recruitment targets lol.

I’m too leftist to be too happy about that last point, but it’s a sign that we’re not going to take the bullying. A Conservative defeat would be inspiring, and I might even let myself feel hopeful at that point.

American colors are backwards for some reason. In countries around the world (that I’m familiar with, at least) blue is the conservative color and red is the liberal/left color. Orange tends to be social democrat, I think, but that might be my Canada bias.

This is consistent across the Commonwealth at the very least, but I think I’ve noticed the pattern met in other European countries as well.

An election is coming soon either way, once Parliament resumes there’ll be a vote of no confidence. The NDP committed to it and it’s suicide not to follow through.

Trans erasure is very much creating a lower caste and an out-group to vilify.

He also represents corporate interests at the expense of the people and wants to do things like defund our non-corporate media as well as extend funding to fringe conservative media.

“Axe the tax” is very much a marriage of corporate interests with the government at the expense of us all.

He ticks a fair amount of boxes, even if he’s not as bad as the sieg heil pieces of shit down south.

Liberals (red) are the incumbent party, they’re fairly centrist but have implemented some watered down progressive policies in recent years because the orange NDP (New Democratic Party) have been helping keep their minority government in power. For example they’ve begun to roll out an expansion of our health care to include dental and pharma coverage. There are some progressive ideas in the fringes of the Liberal party as well, like UBI, which is supported by one of the (unlikely) party leadership candidates to take over after Trudeau. They are generally pro business but not at the expense of all other considerations.

The NDP are progressives, they tend to advocate for things like wealth taxes and reducing the tax breaks on capital gains compared to income in order to fund more social programs and expand existing government services. They advocate for universal pharma, dental, and mental health care for example, as well as recently adding permanent sales tax removal from more essential products like a wider variety of foods and diapers into their platform. They are also pro union. You can think of them as social democrats.

Blue are the Conservatives. They have been shifting more and more right and especially since the pandemic have begun to cater to the fringe right wing opinions in Canada. Their current leader is a populist and culture warrior, bringing things like gender ideology into our political discourse and aligning with folks like Jordan Peterson. Against Trudeau he has had a commanding lead in the polls for a very long time, and “FUCK TRUDEAU” has been the message and the banner of that party for years. They’re losing their lead steadily as (in my opinion) people are seeing the outcomes of that kind of politicking in the USA, and are unifying in the face of American threats. Their divisive politics are not effective anymore and they’re scrambling to find a new message, so far they’ve just been comparing the prospective Liberal leadership to Trudeau and trying to recycle their old message.

Cyan is the Bloc Quebecois, a party that is essentially a Quebec Nationalist party. They tend to be fairly progressive on policy, but are concerned with Quebec issues and sometimes get into conservative territory in some of their ideology, with protectionist and anti-immigrant ideas. They ebb and flow in Quebec but don’t really exist much elsewhere, but Quebec has a lot of population and a lot of seats in Parliament so they can be the third largest party often.

Green are the green party, they’re generally socially progressive but surprisingly conservative in economic policy at times. They’re never really a major contender in terms of seats, but they often split votes across Canada and can decide the outcome of dozens of seats by taking votes from socially progressive conservatives or from other progressive parties.

The major thing to note here is how much the Conservatives are falling in the polls. They had an insurmountable lead before Trump’s reelection and before Trudeau announced his intent to resign. NDP is collapsing as well as people are in full strategic vote mode to deny a Conservative majority.

If you’re not familiar with parliamentary politics, a majority is not unlike having a majority in Congress but with the added aspect that the Prime Minister is not directly elected by the people but is instead elected by Parliament. So a minority government can be challenged and a new election called by a vote of no confidence from the majority of Parliament, and a coalition of parties can run the country even if they individually don’t hold the most seats.

I’m sorry I’ve been dragging them into the theater and making them play games they don’t want to play, it’s my fault