In case you didn't know it, socialism is dead.
Explains why True Dope is still in the big chair, I guess.The low voter turnout is because the vast majority of the population is quite happy with good government and saw no reason to change to something worse.
No, turdOWE won because of the seat distribution system . Conservatives got the majority of the popular vote last three elections. Toronto, for example has more seats than many provinces.We have many ridings that are bigger than the entire GTA, with only one MP. See, there is more than one way to rig an election.Explains why True Dope is still in the big chair, I guess.
"|One hectare, one vote!" is the great battlecry of freedom.No, turdOWE won because of the seat distribution system . Conservatives got the majority of the popular vote last three elections. Toronto, for example has more seats than many provinces.We have many ridings that are bigger than the entire GTA, with only one MP. See, there is more than one way to rig an election.
Explains why True Dope is still in the big chair, I guess.
No, turdOWE won because of the seat distribution system . Conservatives got the majority of the popular vote last three elections. Toronto, for example has more seats than many provinces.We have many ridings that are bigger than the entire GTA, with only one MP. See, there is more than one way to rig an election.
I’m just taking a cooldown break from yardwork so I’m not gonna pull up statistics but Google is all of our friends…."|One hectare, one vote!" is the great battlecry of freedom.
You think you got problems? Wyoming, with less than 600,000 people, has the same representation in the Senate as California, with 39.5 million.I’m just taking a cooldown break from yardwork so I’m not gonna pull up statistics but Google is all of our friends….
The Conservative Party, Federally, in Canada, did get more votes in the “One Person, One Vote” system that we have than any other party, & the Liberal Party of Canada won these last couple of elections regardless due to seat distribution. That’s what Taxslave is alluding to.
For example If the Liberal Party gets 55% of the votes in 15 ridings in the GTA, & the Conservatives get 85% of the votes in 13 ridings in Saskatchewan…then the Liberals are 2 seats ahead at that point, even though more people (one vote, one person) voted for conservatives collectively…
Yes but every state has the same representation in the senate . That is not the case in Canada .You think you got problems? Wyoming, with less than 600,000 people, has the same representation in the Senate as California, with 39.5 million.
And a plurality is not a majority. Majority means 50%+1 or more.
Nice back patting from a receiver of Liberal party funds. Although in this election I am inclined to believe the Liberals lost rather than the Conservatives won.There's no Tory dynasty in Ontario and the Liberals aren't dead
Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Publishing date:Jun 04, 2022 • 21 hours ago • 3 minute read • 22 Comments
Premier Doug Ford had an impressive election victory on Thursday, but it’s not the start of a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario and the Liberal Party isn’t going to disappear.
People who think in such politically apocalyptic terms don’t know the history of Ontario politics.
It’s going to be very difficult for the PCs to win a third majority government in 2026, whether Ford is still premier or has retired and been replaced by a successor.
The last time any party in Ontario achieved three majority governments in a row was when John Robarts and the PCs won the 1963 and 1967 elections, followed by Bill Davis winning a third majority in 1971 — 51 years ago.
Davis — Ontario’s longest serving premier in the modern era (1971 to 1985) — never won back-to-back majorities, let alone three in a row.
Following his 1971 majority government, Davis won minority governments in 1975 and 1997, followed by a second majority in 1981.
The last political dynasty in Ontario — 42 years — lasted from 1943 when George Drew was elected premier to 1985, when Davis retired from politics, 37 years ago.
Since then, Ontario voters have elected and defeated Liberal, PC and NDP governments without any enduring loyalty to any one party.
The Liberals’ David Peterson won fewer seats in the 1985 election than PC premier Frank Miller who succeeded Davis (48 for the Liberals, 52 for the PCs).
But Peterson forged an alliance with then NDP leader Bob Rae (whose party won 25 seats in the 1985 election) to become premier.
Peterson’s Liberal government lasted five years — a minority government from 1985 to 1987 followed by a majority from 1987 to 1990 — before being defeated by Rae and the NDP, who won a majority government that lasted from 1990 to 1995.
Rae and the NDP were defeated in 1995 by the PCs’ Mike Harris, who won two majority governments (1995 and 1999) before resigning in 2002, with the party choosing Ernie Eves as his successor.
Eves lost the 2003 election to the Liberals’ Dalton McGuinty, who won two majority governments (2003 and 2007) followed by a minority government in 2011.
McGuinty announced his retirement a year later and was replaced by Kathleen Wynne, who won a majority government, from 2014 to 2018.
Wynne was defeated by Ford and the PCs in 2018, who won a majority government and have now been re-elected with a second majority, which will run until 2026.
The Liberal party isn’t going to disappear, even though it was reduced to seven seats in the 2018 election and added only one more on Thursday, insufficient to achieve official party status which today requires 12 seats.
The NDP lost official party status in the 1999 and 2003 elections and survived to become the official opposition party in the last two elections.
Since the end of the PC dynasty in Ontario in 1985, the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have all been in government, all been the official opposition party and all been the third party in the Legislature.
The reason is that Ontario has a mature three-party system (the Greens having won only one seat in the last two elections).
A more enduring theme in Ontario politics is that voters prefer their provincial government to be of a different political stripe than the federal government — which repeated itself Thursday, with Ford’s victory while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals are in power in Ottawa.
lgoldstein@postmedia.com
GOLDSTEIN: There's no Tory dynasty in Ontario and the Liberals aren't dead
Ford had an impressive election victory Thursday, but it's not the start of a PC dynasty and the Liberal Party isn't going to disappear.torontosun.com
The Conservatives ran a rather straight forward low risk campaign. A couple shots at the other leaders and a couple highlighting how they were going to help Ontarionians. The Liberals and NDP offered nothing of substance to counter that.Nice back patting from a receiver of Liberal party funds. Although in this election I am inclined to believe the Liberals lost rather than the Conservatives won.
happens a lot in highly unionized areas. Here in BC we have many forestry union workers are so stupid they voted for the party that took away logging jobs by banning old growth logging in many areas. Worse their union donated over a million $$$$ of members money to elect the party that took their jobs away.Interesting how Northern Ontario is always Dipper Country.. guess it’s a bunch of Welfare Bums with their hand held out to see what they can take
I don’t pay attention to politics , I just follow my union .happens a lot in highly unionized areas. Here in BC we have many forestry union workers are so stupid they voted for the party that took away logging jobs by banning old growth logging in many areas. Worse their union donated over a million $$$$ of members money to elect the party that took their jobs away.