…from the NY Times….
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- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has canoed to a campaign event, taken countless selfies and braved town halls with sometimes angry voters. One opponent — Jagmeet Singh — hopped on an orange tractor in northern Ontario at a plowing competition; his chief rival — Andrew Scheer — smiled with babies at a ribfest in Prince Edward Island.
Now Canadians will vote in their national election on Monday, rendering their verdict on Mr. Trudeau and his challengers.
The prime minister has received plaudits for presiding over one of the most ethnically diverse cabinets in the world, legalizing recreational marijuana and hammering out an often fraught trade deal with President Trump.
But his campaign has been shaken by his efforts to influence his former justice minister in a corporate corruption case, and by the publication of photographs and video from his past showing him in brownface and blackface.
Polls close in Newfoundland & Labrador at 7 p.m. EDT (= 8 p.m. Atlantic time) and close at 8 o 8:30 local time until 10 p.m. EDT (= 7 p.m. Pacific time) in British Columbia.
See:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-day-what-you-need-to-know-1.5328369
and
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-election-results-how-to-1.5325977 (how to watch)
It is a sign of sickness that I will actually be watching the returns on CSPAN tonight?
Very, very early returns from Atlantic Canada (Nfld & Lab, N. Scotia, N. Brunswick & Prince Edward Is. — 32 seats) show the Liberals having already won 5 ridings and leading in 7, while the Tories lead in 5 and the New Democrats in 1.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/
Interesting results tonight especially for critics of the Electoral College.
Based on what CBC apparently just said, the Conservative Party has slightly more votes nationwide than the Liberal Party. However, the Liberals easily have more seats, apparently more than expected, and Trudeau is nearly certain to remain PM.
So, as is the case with the U.S., rolling up big margins in certain areas is no guarantee of “winning.”
With some or all returns from all 338 ridings:
Conservatives 34%
Liberals 34%
New Democrats 15%
MP’s elected:
158 Lib
121 Cons.
25 New Democratic Party
3 Green
32 Bloc Québécois
Most likely result: Liberal minority government relying on NDP votes
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/results/
https://www.cbc.ca/news
Liberal
156
Conservative
121
Bloc Québécois
32
New Democrat
25
Green
3
Independent
1
People’s Party
0
Other
Party standings
170 SEATS TO MAJORITY
Liberal
157 MP’s (elected or leading)
3,859,315 votes
33.2%
Conservative
121
3,993,081
34.4%
Bloc Québécois
32
986,176
8.5%
New Democrat
24
1,782,287
15.4%
Green
3
710,378
6.1%
Independent
1
I fell asleep and missed the speeches. Probably no different than the average Canadian did.
From what I see online, Trudeau came out and gave his speech right after Andrew Scheer, the Conservative Leader had begun to speak, so the networks had to switch away.
Very unclassy to say the least.
Luckily ,here in the USA we have a conservative President who exudes “class” as he is cheered on by the cream of American “Conservatism.”