House Speaker Andrew Scheer won my riding big time. Even if my guy didn't get in at least it's someone with lots of experience.

Congratulation to Queen Elizabeth II on her "22nd" consecutive term as Canada's head of state.

LIB
Elected: 184
39.5%184
Lead: 0
Votes: 6,928,096
CON
Elected: 99
31.9%99
Lead: 0
Votes: 5,597,115
NDP
Elected: 44
19.7%44
Lead: 0
Votes: 3,459,838

Figures from the Huffington Post.
So we can say 60% of the voters didn't want a Liberal Govt or 70% and 80% didn't want the PC's or the NDP.
The Libs had just over 1.3 million more votes than the PC's but have 85 more seats in parliament and thats all that matters as they have a majority and can pass legislation good or bad without being defeated.

Oh my !! If anyone thought the Great gas plant robbery was a duck up then we seen nothing yet, that was just a tester to see how stupid Canadians really are. Every man for them selves from now on !!

Monday's federal election saw the biggest voter turnout in the country in over 20 years, according to preliminary results from Elections Canada.

The government organization said 17.5 million of 25.6 million registered voters cast a ballot — a turnout of 68.3 per cent.

The early count doesn't include Canadians who registered to vote on Monday, but the crowds are still the biggest since 1993, when 69.6 per cent of eligible electors cast ballots.

By the time Vancouver was closing its polls JT was giving his speech lol

interesting bit of punditry on this morning's radio from Stephen Marche, the journalist who wrote the "closing of the Canadian mind" op-ed in the New York Times earlier this year. He was asked about Harper's political legacy. His take was more or less "what legacy? He's done nothing substantial in ten years in power." Much of his over-hyped legislative agenda can be undone in a single term, some of it in a couple of months (Canada's future direction on climate change, for example, will be addressed in Paris in six weeks). An awful lot of what he has "achieved" is marked by lack of progress - stalling electoral reform, failing to make any substantive changes to taxation (apart from dropping a couple of pennies on GST), slavishly following the US line on foreign policy while simultaneously getting very little in return (such as concessions on various oil pipeline projects). In successive campaigns, he picked on increasingly small, divisive, and negative issues to try to drive home a victory - twice the anti-Liberal attack ads worked, this time both they and this ludicrous niqab thing have spectacularly backfired.

I hadn't really thought about this before - but here's a question for the panel of BE experts: What will Harper's legacy look like a year from now, when the new government has had a parliamentary session to rewrite some tax law and address immigration, foreign and environmental policy issues?

Sunny ways people sunny ways

The Ontario liberals were the #1 negative against voting liberal provincially for me.

Guy Fawkes. The guy who tried to lead Canada into the States, and failed. Whilst closely resembling a paedo.

Liberals took my riding, I'll miss our NDP guy and have deep suspicions about Bill Blair- but he got over 50% of the vote.

A year from now the Liberals will still be holding talks promising to do this and that which they promised to do. When the Libs had a majority have a good look at their record on climate change and their plans.
Parts of Immigration can be an easy fix some not as easy.
Reducing income tax rates for individuals and raising them for business isn't too difficult either.
Lets see how many promises the Libs keep or stall on.

What Harper nearly said in his concession speech...

"Look, friends, it's like this. Canada has decided that petty small-mindedness is not the way forward. In this great country of ours, the people have spoken, from sea to sea to sea. Friends, the people are never wrong. But I am, frequently. Although I will never acknowledge it, except that I just have. So, while I'm speaking to you from this public podium, even now there are dark forces at work in private in a back room. My staff are at this moment issuing a press statement tendering my resignation, so that I don't have to acknowledge it in person. My last piece of stage management as prime minister is to weasel out of talking about my own demise. Look, it's simple: I'm a slimy toad, who will go out of my way to draw the wool over people's eyes until the last possible moment. Sadly, friends, I don't have time for any questions."

Who will take his place when we have to vote for change in 4 years ?

Michael Portillo

I only registered on day of.

I think in a few years he'll become just a name in political history, but with not much more that a date elected and an date for his end of officeI don't think he did anything that would warrant a full sentence, let alone a paragraph