Thankfully sanity prevailed and the conservatives were defeated.
Trump thought that he had a sure thing going with Poilievre, but Trump’s constant ramblings about Canada becoming the 51st state alarmed everyone in Canada that wasn’t a follower of the Conservative / Reform / Alliance Party.
Canadians turned out in droves and handed the Conservatives a well deserved defeat. Could have been a much better defeat, but with American fake newz and American social media filling the minds of so many vulnerable people in Canada I take what we got.
The NDP almost evaporated, but this was expected to happen after the NDP abandoned their typical pro-labour, left-of-centre politics and tried to become a centrist party.
This wouldn’t be the first time a federal party imploded during an election.
The Conservatives were annihilated in October of 1993 after Lyin’ Brian destroyed the Canadian manufacturing sector with NAFTA. The ink had barely dried on Brian’s double cross when American based manufacturers started closing down their Canadian subsidiaries and moving the operations and the jobs to low wage paying states.
While NAFTA may have been great for the boys and girls on Bay Street, it was a massive knife in the back to the thousands of workers in southern Ontario that found themselves unemployed with very little prospect of employment.
The implosion of the Conservative party is what allowed the Albertan separatist parties to go from being niche parties to getting a foothold in federal politics. Today’s Conservative party is only Conservative in name. The Conservative party from the pre- Lyin’ Brian days no longer exists. The Conservative Party of Canada is now a religious theocratic separatist party.
For me the outcome of the election was a good thing as it allows Medical Assistance in Dying for mental health to proceed. If everything goes as proposed then M.A.i.D. MISUMC will become legal on March 17th, 2027.
It’s been a little on the nerve wracking side for these last few weeks.
It was bad enough in 2023 and 2024 having the carrot of M.A.i.D. dangled in front of my face only to have it yanked out of my reach because the Liberals feared the uniformed populace that was falling prey to the misinformation presented by those on the right and by the various “astroturf” campaigns funded by American dark money.
To have a small but vocal minority of Canadians clamouring for American style politics and ideologies to be brought north of the border was disturbing.
To find out that a portion of Canadians love Donald Trump and everything that Donald Trump represents was repulsive.
Had the Conservative party of Canada won, then Medical Assistance in Dying for Mental Illness as the Sole Underlying Medical Condition would have been out the door. In fact, M.A.i.D. for any reason would have probably been rescinded.
But, thankfully the CPC didn’t win.
Trump’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre was the kiss of death for the CPC.
No, I didn’t vote for the Liberals.
I wasn’t actually going to vote at all in this election as there wasn’t a party running that I thought reflected my views. Then I realized that the next federal election won’t be until 2029. And if everything works out the way I hope it works out in 2027, then this is my last federal election.
So, I plugged my nose and cast a vote for the NDP.
I usually vote NDP provincially and Liberal federally. But when it comes to the Federal NDP they’ve never really appealed to me as they seem to be the centrist party that nobody has ever asked for.
But, with the complete lack of support that Hedy Fry has shown towards persons who were sexually abused as children by members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and with her complete lack of support for Medical Assistance in Dying for persons suffering from Mental Illness, there was no way that I could continue to support her.
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