So the right wing failed in Canada yesterday

[malaise]

Congrats Canadians

[2naSalit]

1. Thank goodness!

[DownriverDem]

16. Canada's Government

isn't like ours. Trudeau didn't win a majority. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50134640

[2naSalit]

21. Yes, I know that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. crazy Canucks acting sane while the world goes bonkers

Is the wall still standing?

Link to tweet

Someday we may go completely sane.

[malaise]

3. LOL

[hlthe2b]

5. Beautiful (in more ways than one)

[hlthe2b]

4. Just woke up and am seeing this! Thank you, Malaise. That's some really good news to wake up to!

[True Blue American]

6. Justin won

Promising progressive actions.

Boris lied to the Queen according to a Court ruling, lost the Brexit vote.

Netanyahu failed to form a Government. Failed to pass a lawsaving him from indictment.

Next?

[dawn5651]

7. all i can say is i am glad canada rejected scheer

[The_jackalope]

20. We didn't, though.

The popular vote tells a different story.

[Roy Rolling]

8. Awesome!

Trudeau is a gem for Canada.

[gademocrat7]

9. Good news this morning

Thank you, Malaise.

[G_j]

10. Thank goodness

[wendyb-NC]

11. It's a great day for Canada, Canadians

and democracy loving people everywhere. We need to turn the tide here in this country, no more carpetbagger, would be dictators, who aren't real people. Like the strutting orange menace we currently have.
Maybe it is a sign that sanity is possible.

[knightmaar]

12. It's not like the Liberals didn't have issues

The SNC Lavalin scandal chief among them.
But they vaguely share values that most of us care about, so we sent more of them to Parliament than Conservatives.

Better yet, from my point of view, the Liberals don't have a majority in Parliament. They have to take allies from amongst the more progressive NDPs in order to win confidence votes and pass budgets.

This means our aboriginal populations will probably get clean drinking water (thanks, JT, for not getting your ass in gear on that) and maybe we all get a government funded pharmacare plan.

[Hortensis]

17. I've read the Liberal Party was unable to fulfill that last promise.

We know what it's like to be constantly blamed for what the Republicans do, as if we could stop them if we cared to bother, and thus it's really all our fault.

I hope you're right, but good luck to Canada. We know what splitting power between cons and libs leads to. I'm reading the Liberal Party will have to form a coalition with the Greens and the democratic socialists, and other tiny groups.

But the Greens are a miniscule party and the NDPs, already small, have lost a bunch of seats this time. They're all likely to have to work with the sorta-separatist French Catholic Quebecoise a lot, which is not a liberal movement.

Still, if this particular leader is genuinely committed enough to his issues to form a strong, cooperative alliance with the Liberal Party maybe together they'll be able to prevail on some issues over Canada's conservatives. That's open to question. He's softened a bit on part of his we'd-break-before-we'd-compromise stance during the elections, but...

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[Hortensis]

13. So glad, but Trudeau is forced to work with a coalition government.

[knightmaar]

15. And that's a good thing

He didn't keep enough of his progressive promises.
He will have to ally with the NDP, who have an agenda to:

a) clean up aboriginal drinking water
b) provide a national pharmacare plan
c) not build oil pipelines for tar sands oil

Coalition here is a good thing.

[Hortensis]

18. Imo, if you're 20% right, that'll be a good thing.

This is the real world, and Canada's part of it is starting to look more like our part.



Heading toward 100 years ago now Americans gave their liberal party a strong mandate to reverse the slope, and they did a magnificent job because the people gave them the power.

We'll turn this around when the electorate gives us the power to do that again, and only then. Same for Canada. This election is in no way a sign that that's happening yet. Quite the contrary.

Unfortunately, right now much of the left doesn't know or care what Democrats under Pelosi have passed immediately on taking office, such as our giant democracy reform/anti-corruption bill, H.R. 1, or our important drug affordability bill, H.R. 3. Fortunately others do know and care, but right now too many are nowhere near the commitment to change that the majority of our grandparents had when they empowered the Democrats who created the New Deal. First we change, then we change our nation.

[FM123]

14. Yes!

What Trudeau said about Canada rings true for America too...
"This election is not about the next 4 years. It's about the next 40. Think about the future you want for your kids as you head to the polls. Vote liberal. #ChooseForward"

[The_jackalope]

19. Not entirely

The Conservatives won the popular vote pretty decisively, 34.5% to 33%. Luckily, we have a gerrymandered, first past the post electoral system, so the proper party "won" anyway.

Sorry to be the skunk at the picnic.