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Lol and go where? From what I can tell, Canada has a housing crisis and is tilting right. Western Europe is already getting sick of immigrants and dealing with the far right.
Exactly. They're DEALING WITH the far right. They haven't just handed they keys to the country over.
There's still a chance for them.
Yeah. Trudeau's not super popular anymore because of all his scandals, open corruption, and his handling of the economy and immigration (I expect the Trump win will probably solidify his base somewhat, though, once people start comparing the opposition to Trump) and the NDP's never going to win a majority with Jagmeet at the helm (NDP voters aren't too thrilled about how far up Trudeau's ass his tongue regularly goes). That basically leaves the Bloc (which only cares about Quebec) and the Conservatives. No one outside of Quebec votes for the Bloc (no one serious, at least).
The most damaging thing Trump ever did was show the politicians of the world that you can pretty much just do whatever the fuck you want if you spread divisive hate and propaganda hard enough. The Cons weren't anywhere close to what the Republicans were before he got into office. In our case, the economy usually did get better under them. Unfortunately, they've been steadily becoming more and more extreme over the past couple of elections. It looked like they were trying to be more moderate when they had Erin O'Toole, but there were still some morons among them that were eager to show that they'd gone batshit insane, so they're back to doubling down on ol' Canadian Ben Shapiro now.
Thanks for the added context. I've seen a few headlines about what's happening, but it's good to hear the perspective from someone that lives there.
No one outside of Quebec votes for the Bloc because no one outside of Quebec can vote for the Bloc.
To be fair to myself, you can vote for anyone. It just won't necessarily count since it'll spoil the ballot.
No you can't, we don't have write in in Canada.
You're given a pen/pencil and asked to fill out a box. Nothing prevents you from writing stuff, but whatever. It's not like it matters.
"won't necessarily count" implies that it might or might not.
We don't have write ins in Canada, we just put an X or a check mark next to a name that's already on the ballot. If you add anything else on it your ballot gets discarded and you vote won't count even if there's an X or a check mark next to an actual name.
I'm starting to doubt that you ever voted in Canada.
My wife and I have considered shoring up in Baja. We have quite a few friends in a well insulated community down there, and it's a 12 hour drive from where we're at, assuming they don't lock the border from the inside (which they probably will at some point).
Say hi to Jesse Ventura for me.