Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Canada Federal Election - 20 Sept

Not the outcome that I was hoping for, but about what I expected. No significant change in the balance of power.

Backtracking on repealing the assault rifle ban , seemed to be the turning point that allowed the liberals to reverse the conservative momentum that had previously been established.

Apparently, Winning that debate isn’t as readily achieved as terrorizing and demonizing from the liberal “Progressives” with false rhetoric.

C’est la Vie .

Sorry guys. Idiots abound on both sides of the borders.

Jim

VERY sad but true.

610 million wasted

Minority government are always good governments , any strip.It keeps those politicians in check. And the backbenchers have a say . They lose one of them and the government can lose the vote of confidence They also have to keep their party workers engaged ,an election at any time. Not only do they have to talk the talk, they have to walk the walk.

Nobody believed O'Toole when he talked that he would do the walk. As for vote splitting, look at what the Liberals have to put up with on their left flank, nothing like the Conservatives on their right flank.

I think over the coming days pundits will speak about the impact of the PPC and the poor performance of the Conservatives in Alberta.

They will also bring up Singh’s strengthened position in Parliament. He will be able to push back and Trudeau will be compelled to listen.

Amongst the power brokers, the only winner last night was the NDP.

In the last Parliament, the Liberals only needed support of one of the opposition parties, it's the same for this one. No change.

The PPC party, even though it didn't win any seats will have to now be considered seriously by the Conservative party.

There were a number of seats that could/should have gone to Conservatives but instead were won by Liberals or NDP. Not enough to make any difference in the final status of the Conservative party but still very worrisome if the popular support for the PPC party continues.

There was also the Kenney effect which couldn't have come at a worse time for the conservatives and drained party support from the Conservatives.

The Liberals were skillfully able to tie the Kenney/Alberta Pandemic management to Erin O'Toole.

More Liberal Bumbling and lying to come. Get rid of Justine --- our country can't afford him.

Both the Conservatives and the NDP will have to give the Liberals some rope. Neither wants to trigger another election too soon because of a no confidence vote. Whoever does that will take a shellacking from the public. O'Toole made mention of an 18 month time frame in his concession speech. Does he know something we don't?

Prayers sent. Edk

The Conservatives need to run on a conservative platform. Fiscally conservative, socially conservative, politically conservative. This election was a rejection of liberal conservatism. If they ever find a leader who can project that and avoid being pushed around by the media, they will form a government. If they then adhere to their espoused principles, they will stay in government. As a by-product, they will do the country some good. GD

Agreed. From my perspective, and the longtime Conservative voters I spoke with, O’Toole’s flip flopping and the CPC moving away from traditional Conservative values toward Lib-lite, were large contributing factors to the rise in support for the PPC.

We only have the voters to blame.

We might get a chance to go through this again in 18 months. We'll have to wait to see if voters feel the same as they do now.