It's amazing how a little taste of fascism motivates people isn't it?
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Canadians apparently don’t realize how much of a privilege it is to be able to vote. Surprises me every time.
The Bloc Quebecois and the NDP both took 6.3 per cent of the vote, and will hold 22 and seven seats, respectively.
Our electoral system is fundamentally misrepresentative by design. We desperately need proportional representation.
These numbers are really encouraging. Voter participation has been a serious issue on all levels of government for a long time, and hopefully this is the beginning of a reverse in trends. Canadians need to at least pay a minimum of attention to what their leaders are doing or else they'll just do whatever they think they can get away with.
So many Canadian leaders sneak in absurd laws and policies and Canadians just don't notice or say anything, and I say this in regards to all parties. Not saying anything, especially during elections, is a tacit approval. Because showing disapproval is the only way to make governments know that they can't get away with ignoring the public good in favour of personal agendas.
Fuck dude Canadians dont even know what provincial governments do. They get mad at: the carbon tax, healthcare, infrastructure, education, and housing yet at every turn that's on the province to fund and manage. The federal government chips in to help of course but the province MANAGES it at the end of the day. And before anybody says "the carbon tax was Trudeau Though!", I'm sorry, but the carbon tax was only a federal MINIMUM if your province didn't have a system in place already. Or when they got rid of any other pricing system like Ontario did, Alberta did and Saskatchewan did and then got all pissy when they had to pay it and not a single fucking moron in those provinces hated on the premiers for it.
Canadians can be just as fucking dumb as Americans and it was really showing these last 5 years
So about 69% of the voters elected 169 liberals? Nice.
I wish the turnout was higher, but I get it. Before voting I checked on how close the race in my riding was. It wasn't. The Conservative candidate was projected to win a landslide victory with 99% confidence. I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote. I did anyways thinking maybe there'll be way more voters than normal this year. There wasn't. The Conservative candidate won a landslide victory. Just like last election, and the one before that, and the one before that. I wasn't even born yet the last time this riding wasn't held by a Conservative. FPTP voting sucks.
I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.
This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you'd never know it from the election "advice" plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.
ty for going anyway.
Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.
My city is a giant retirement community pretending to be a city, so naturally a Conservative always wins. Didn't stop me from voting anyway, because fuck 'em. Hopefully things change when the retirees biff it.
If the parties don’t see even marginal gains in a region they won’t bother putting resources towards increasing that growth and eventually flipping a seat.
If we ever get away from first past the post they also need to see that it would benefit them to have second place.
It’s important to vote regardless of the outcome.
Should there be a fine of $25 for not voting?
Not a bad idea
Sad that in the most consequential election in most Canadian's lifetimes that more than 3 in 10 decided to stay home.
FPTP means that many votes have negligible impact, so it's understandable why some don't bother.
Probably would not change much with proportional representation. A surprising number of people just don’t care.
Terrible turnout. The worst part is knowing that the % of RW voters was probably 90+ % as usual, with the rest of us lagging way behind.
carney won by a little over 3.5% PP was still extremely close despite all the tariff and trump dic sucking by pp.
…and the Green Party took a single seat.
Well, you can thank Trudeau for that, reneging on his promise that we’d have electoral reform
I was watching This hour has 22 minutes and the host asked if a good outcome for the Greens would be more seats than leaders
The Green party is in shambles, they don’t even know who they are anymore. What the hell are “co-leaders”? It’s basically just a name for Elizabeth May’s independent status.