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  • Trudeau and the snap elec

    From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Mike Powell on Saturday, June 10, 2023 14:47:02
    Guess there are not enough Alan Iansons in Canada to get Trudeu's party that majority of seats they wanted.

    I am not a liberal, and I did not vote liberal.

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to ALAN IANSON on Saturday, June 10, 2023 15:06:00
    Didn't your current PM's party actually get voted out, but then he used his powers to stay in power, sort of like, I don't know, a dictator?

    No, that didn't happen.

    Sorry that was my misunderstanding. What he did was disolve parliment in
    2021 and request a snap election two years early, which sounds like something
    a dictator would do, in hopes that his Liberal party would gain the
    uncontested majority of seats (which is 170).

    The snap election took place as he requested. They did not get their
    majority. They did set a new low for popular vote share for a party that would go on to form a government, at 32.6%, which was lower than what the Conservatives got.

    So I did slightly misunderstand. He went from having a full majority of
    seats before the previous 2019 election, to not having a majority (after
    2019), to still not having a majority *and* setting the low for popular vote received by the "ruling party." So he did have "loser numbers" but was
    able to stay in power.

    Sounds like your liberal/leftist government does not have the mandate, and
    may not represent the voice of all Canadians, that you seem to think they do.

    Guess there are not enough Alan Iansons in Canada to get Trudeu's party that majority of seats they wanted.


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