Canadian Politics Thread

People in Guelph receiving phone calls saying that their polling office has been moved :S Dirty, dirty..

Harper is campaigning today in ABBOTsford, B.C. and Bin Laden was killed today in ABBOTTabad ... coincidence?? What can this mean??

Pretty funny: the government is going to prosecute people who Tweet or otherwise social-network early returns tonight. That's a very wise and simple battle to take up.

Yeah, Harper, good job urging people to vote Conservative on the radio today, even though it's completely illegal to do so:

http://www.examiner.com/canada-headlines-in-canada/stephen-harper-breaks-election-rules-campaigns-on-radio-on-election-day

Maybe we should push for this particular punishment:

with respect to certain offences, the deregistration of a party and liquidation of its assets, and the liquidation of the assets of the party's registered associations

Harper didn't break any rules. the examiner and elections canada are just liberal-biased socialist institutions. that is all. didn't Layton break a law once? but we're not hearing about that today are we? i rest my case.

did the good guys or bad guys win?

Won't know the end(-ish) results for another few hours, probably. Our polls in Toronto don't even close for another hour. I think it's an hour past that that BC polls close...?

Heard a bit this morning about the Twitter law...illegal to post any results until after final polls close, but the only way you'd get charged for contravening the law would be to have a complaint lodged against you...and even then it's not certain you'd face legal action, because in some cases the audience would be so small it'd be hard to make a case that leaking the results to your followers had any influence on the outcome at all.

so does anyone want to take a guess at what result we'll see?

But if you really want a head start on this apparently you can see info on Twitter with hashtag #tweettheresults (the site tweettheresults.ca, which was supposed to be aggregating this, got leaned on to stop).

(Though you'll have to wade through a crapload of joke posts to see anything useful.)

did the good guys or bad guys win?

I like this..."dude," but he seems to have a chip on his shoulder.

I'm in Ignatieff's riding, and he voted this morning at the same school where I vote (Sir Adam Beck). I'm glad I voted tonight and didn't encounter him. I would have kept my head down and avoided him. It would have felt like a betrayal, like when I went to Rogers last summer with cards for Cone and Henke to autograph, and sort of skulked past Sprague because I had nothing of his. (Yes, I know--like Ed Sprague would be deeply upset.)

I'm in Iggy's riding too. (Oddly, used to live in Jack's!) (And no, NO plans to move to Calgary any time soon to complete the set.)

i'm frightened.

CBC and CTV have already called the election??

Majority or minority CPC govt TBD

cons are doing amazing so far.

NDP killin it in quebec - freakin amazing

Disappointing. As soon as the Queen gets finished with all that wedding stuff, she needs to get over here and redesign this whole system.

NDP seat count, hoooooly shit.

Cons probably not getting a majority apparently. Yesssss.

i really really hope that's what happens

Chantal Hebert on CBC ... it's a Jean Cretien majority that will be won in Ontario. Gotta agree with that.

Not happy that Iggy's currently trailing here but not really surprised.

HOLY CRAP, the NDP is actually ahead in Duceppe's riding?!

Can't wait for what remains of the Liberals to push Layton to act on his promises to enact proportional representation in elections.

i.e. Layton's first broken campaign promise

like Layton can do shit with what's happening right now!

If the Cons get a majority I blame Toronto

CPC at 156 according to CBC. Changing all the time though.

this is so nerve-wracking!

fuck they're up to 158 now.

162. Pollsters spectacularly wrong again shocker.

Why wouldn't Layton want proportional representation to go through? Given that over half of the country voted against the cons, and they're going to get a majority?

Well, fuck.

"over half the country voted against the cons" ... yeah, but not for the NDP. If we're going by PR, the Liberals would have 60 seats and the Bloc would still be a force.

... and CBC just called the majority

FUUUUCK!

But Layton would still be leader of the opposition, and there'd be minority.

man. fucked up.

glad to know i live in the right province.
but fuck a conservative majority. i feel like i'm going to barf. a lot of fighting ahead...

don't blame me -- i voted for kodos

I know I said this before already but

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

Yeah.

But hey, the little victories, right? Montreal might be kicking out an astronaut and electing one of the actors in 300.

Did Justin Trudeau win tonight? I have the CBC Quebec map up, but I don't know where to look.

He's in Papineau, and he's winning.

at least the bloc is gone.

xpost

Okay: I'm jumping off the NDP bandwagon, and getting on the Justin Trudeau bandwagon...as soon as there is one.

are Duceppe and Iggy both trailing in their own ridings?

Yep, both of them are still behind.

Elizabeth May is currently in the lead but still a lot of polls to come in.