The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.
Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.
Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.
Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.
If only all cons would lose their seats the world would be a better place…
[cries in Florida]
Canada had the worst performance per capita in the entire OECD since the Liberals took over, beating only Luxembourg. Which now theres a doctor shortage, an extreme housing shortage, food bank usage is up dramatically; all after we took on a lot of debt that we now pay interest on. Can you say the cons would have been worse than all that?
Absolutely… if it had been up to Harper (conservative PM for those who don’t know), we would have crashed irreparably during the housing market crash of 2008… Not only was he advocating deregulation of banks for a full decade before the debacle (trying to mimic the USA as always) but even months before the collapse he was still drumming the “I see no problem here” just to pivot to “I have never been more worried about the state of the Canadian economy” in the span of 3 months… and this is the “Economist PM” the cons sold us
Think of all this but with institutionalized hatred towards LGBT ppl, anti-vaxx sentiment and dog whistles of facism. We know both parties are a different side of the same coin. Only one of those parties is embracing fascist rhetoric and populism.
Yes.
Fucking A, Canada. That was awesome! Not only did you punch Smol PP in the dick, you pantsed him as well!
No, not pantsed. Just embarrassed.
They still massively increased their vote share, and the Liberals are still at the mercy of either the Bloc or the NDP for anything constructive.
What we might see, hopefully, is an east-west splitting of the conservatives back into sane-east coast cons, who were largely shut out again this election, and leave the west to its Alberta based Reform party insanity.
Yes, this chart shows how it’s not a good result for anyone on the left (though much better than a Conservative government):
Source: National Post
I wonder if the Canadian government could help their numbers if they shut off Twitter and Meta?
Those two platforms are a massive source of disinformation and hate.
Addicts would revolt.
Tangentially, his riding has like 91 candidates to protest against the first past the post system, which is pretty funny too
The ballot in the riding is over three feet long.
The polling staff were teaching people how to properly fold it so it would fit in the ballot boxes. They also had a sample ballot hanging on the wall and reminded everyone it was in “alphabetical order with the party name under each candidate” lol.
God bless you Canada
There is simply no way they keep them on as leader of the party. That would be suicide. His strategy failed utterly and completely. The Liberals we’re extremely unpopular and he should have won in a landslide and yet he fumbled terribly down the stretch. It should have been an easy needle to thread. Hell Ford did it, the fact that this idiot didn’t understand that is all the reason why they shouldn’t keep him on.
And the bastard is not even quitting. He said he’ll still be the PC’s leader.
he is a weasel… he gave his speech early to be able to make false claims of stopping the NDP from forming coalition with the Liberals (which they did not) and that he would stay as leader which is extremely unlikely without a seat… specially about all the badgering of Carney for being an “unelected PM”…
PP, you are worse than unelected, the people you have worked for for the last 20 years do not want anything to do with you
specially about all the badgering of Carney for being an “unelected PM”…
I hope you’re right about this, but hypocrisy has never stopped conservatives before
I was watching his speech live on CBC and the seat counts were on the bottom of the screen. I shit you not, maybe 10-30 seconds after he said this bit about denying the coalition, the seats flipped over so the coalition was possible. It went back quickly after and then back to coalition possible. I laughed very hard.
I can’t find a video where the reported polls are included like on the live broadcast though. It makes me sad because it was priceless. I believe the seats were 164/165 Liberal and 7 NDP.
That was a seriously spectacular failure.
CANADA SAID IT DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp
We don’t want Trump’s little PP, thank you.
Yay Canada! Y’all give me hope. Don’t give up on US just yet.
This makes me think 2026 midterms could go very well.
If they ever happen.
They’ll happen. They’ll be voter suppressed, with federal interference and manufactured crises, and results from red states could possibly be entirely fabricated with little recourse. It’s going to be touch and go even if anti-Trump sentiment is high.
They will, and I don’t think that sentiment is very helpful.
So much winning!
Hahaha, buh-bye
