Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister(www.npr.org)
30 pointsby nithinj13 hours ago4 comments
  • beloch10 hours ago
    One of the cool things about how Canada conducts its elections is that it's still hand-counted paper ballots. Other levels of government sometimes use machines to lower costs, but federal elections remain old-school. Votes are physical objects that can be counted and re-counted as needed, reducing the risk of fraud. The count is still done quickly, with a government declared before the day is done. At the time of writing, only a few seats remain up in the air.
    • gassi2 hours ago
      I got the watch this happen in real time while scrutineering at one of the polling stations. It game me a lot more confidence on the safety of our elections, which is a blessing in this day and age.
    • nobodywillobsrv10 hours ago
      This is true. I would love to read more about the mechanics of the vote count ... it could do a lot perhaps to reduce the anger over discussions of vote counting in that other country ... one of the things Canada gets right.
      • bloppe10 hours ago
        That other country also has paper ballots. A bunch of people decided to count the ones in Arizona by hand after 2020. They found that the machines were accurate. The only reason people got angry was because one candidate decided to be the sorest loser of all time. I don't see how counting by hand would have made a difference. It was never about facts.
  • ZeroGravitas7 hours ago
    Recent update:

    > Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat in Carleton, Ontario, according to projections by CBC/Radio-Canada, after his party lost the general election.

  • aborsy10 hours ago
    The results achieved by the policies of the liberal party of Canada have been disastrous in the past decade. I can’t imagine people voted for them again. It’s counterintuitive.

    What’s the reason people vote for those outcomes?

    I know trump played a role, but it’s hard to believe that he reversed the outcome so drastically.

    I think the conservatives in Canada don’t have strong leaders. You couldn’t have a better hand.

    • ChromaticPanic10 hours ago
      The problem is conservative policy makes those same problems worse.
      • aborsy9 hours ago
        No, the curves were good until the end of the last conservative government. They went down around 2014.

        Lower oil prices might have contributed, but only to an extent.

        Conservatives leadership in Canada is weak. PP is just not sufficiently smart and capable for this position, listening to some of his speeches.

    • ZeroGravitas8 hours ago
      I can believe Trump changed it this drastically.

      He was talking about annexing the country! His post on election day was full on syphillitic mad-king stuff, asking Canada to vote for him!

      I could go on, a long list of stuff that would have been considered implausible in a comic book satire only a few years ago.

      • locallost6 hours ago
        I don't follow Canadian politics, but it's pretty obvious it's Trump and aggressive rhetoric that followed. It was reported very quickly after that that the tide is beginning to turn.
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      • aborsy4 hours ago
        Liberals will increase the damage caused by Trump. Carney is escalating the rhetorics for political gain at cost to Canada, and is taking an antagonist position with respect to the Trump administration.

        It seems illogical that people vote for liberals in response to Trump’s remarks. That will worsen the situation. A more politically aligned government might better manage it.

    • andy998 hours ago
      They overfit to kicking Trudeau out, and were essentially successful, he left in complete humiliation. But then they didn't have much to fall back on. The liberals adopted much of the conservatives policies and / or there was no difference between them anyway.

      In some sense the conservatives were effective at changing the narrative, they just weren't rewarded for it with the opportunity to form government.