{"id":38021,"date":"2019-10-22T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38021"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:46:01","slug":"who-won-the-election-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/who-won-the-election-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Won the Election&hellip; Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The US has a northern neighbor, where fortunately, voters are considerably better informed than their willfully ignorant counterparts here in the US.\u00a0 Yesterday Canadians went to the polls and reelected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\u00a0 Would be Crime Minister, Andrew Scheer, gained ground through disingenuous campaigning, but he did gain ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"1022CanElec\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1022CanElec.jpg\" alt=\"1022CanElec\" width=\"700\" height=\"680\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Liberals are projected to win 157 seats, 13 short of a majority, and will find it harder to pass legislation in Mr Trudeau&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition Conservatives are expected to win the popular vote but have not translated that into seats.<\/p>\n<p>They are projected to take 121, up from the 95 they held before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-50130391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The good news for Trudeau &#8211; and the bad<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-50103847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where it went wrong for the Conservatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-us-canada-50100810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Results and reaction as it happened<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although Monday night&#8217;s results saw a sharp decline in seats for the country&#8217;s left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), its leader, Jagmeet Singh, could become the kingmaker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/enr.elections.ca\/National.aspx?lang=e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The NDP is projected to take 24 seats<\/a> in the 338-seat parliament&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-50134640\">BBC<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Please click through for much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fortunately the progressive NDP had agreed to work with the Liberals.\u00a0 Although Trudeau will have a minority government, the Liberals and NDP will have a functional majority.\u00a0 As long as they work together, Scheer&#8217;s Tories will be powerless to block them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here&#8217;s a video report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uaSoGYMe2X0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party wins Canada&#8217;s general election<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uaSoGYMe2X0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kudos to Canada!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fortunately we have an expert here at the site to flesh out my report.\u00a0 For starters, I&#8217;d like our resident Sasquatch to explain the &#8216;Speech from the Throne&#8217; to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has a northern neighbor, where fortunately, voters are considerably better informed than their willfully ignorant counterparts here in the US.\u00a0 Yesterday Canadians went to the polls and reelected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\u00a0 Would be Crime Minister, Andrew Scheer, gained ground through disingenuous campaigning, but he did gain ground. 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