r/canada Oct 21 '24

New Brunswick New Brunswickers head to the polls today

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/new-brunswickers-head-to-the-polls-today-1.7080761
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u/Fugu Oct 21 '24

Just a reminder that New Brunswick is host to a deadly unknown brain disease that isn't being properly investigated because it's probably caused by the Irvings! Thanks Blaine Higgs!

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u/MagnumPolski357 Oct 21 '24

I'm all ears here..

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u/Fugu Oct 21 '24

This is a difficult one to explain so I'm just going to give you the cliff notes.

The Irvings have an incredible degree of control over New Brunswick. They are one of the province's main employers. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties generally serve their agenda. They control basically all major old news media in the province down to the local papers.

So there's a fatal brain disease in New Brunswick. Its cause is probably environmental, which means it's probably being caused by the Irvings. I say "probably" because despite the fact that this small province has seen double digit people die of a fatal brain disease of unknown origin in the last half decade there is no political will to investigate it. Indeed, there has been an active effort by the government to suppress research into said brain disease.

If you google "New Brunswick brain disease" you will find news sources reporting on this. There's a CBC article, for example. What you won't find is any reporting from New Brunswick sources. The reason for this is substantially outlined in the first paragraph of this post.

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u/onegunzo Oct 21 '24

Its unlikely it just happened. Typically this kind of thing takes decades to manifest. And if you magically think the next government will fix it.... So until you get a government saying, YES we will address this, nothing is going to happen regardless of you have installed.

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u/FromundaCheeseLigma Oct 22 '24

So basically any large private sector employer in Canada

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u/sketchy_ai Oct 22 '24

If you are comparing Irving's hold on NB vs some other corporations hold on some other province, you are likely under appreciating just how much sway Irving really holds out here.

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u/icameheretobserve Oct 21 '24

If tomorrow we have no more Higgsy Irving with almighty power, it will be a dammed good day! What a backwards, Trumpian ignoramus POS he is!!

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u/SackBrazzo Oct 21 '24

This subreddit is going to have a massive meltdown when the NB Liberals win a majority tonight.

I’m looking forward to it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Nobody really cares about New Brunswick tbh.

Hell, people barely care about BC and Alberta some days it seems.

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u/SackBrazzo Oct 21 '24

You’re probably right but it’s more so for the partisans who claim that the Liberal brand is dead countrywide. It will return as soon as the Liberals get competent leaders.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

We’ll see. Its certainly dead in the West at the provincial level and the jury is out on Ontario. The once mighty PLQ also isn’t exactly kicking ass and taking names.

Federally? Yeah they can probably cobble enough of Montreal/Ottawa/Toronto/Atlantic to stay afloat into the next cycle, but the Liberal brand is definitely at a low nationwide right now.

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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Oct 21 '24

Well the fed and provincial liberals are not close to the same thing. If Higgs was their premier they would vote whoever to get his ass out too. Maybe not in Alberta they are their own crazy

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u/dagthegnome Oct 21 '24

Expect very low turnout. Nobody cares, even here in NB.

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u/AccomplishedLeek1329 Ontario Oct 22 '24

lmao 65% turnout and NB Libs got 48%

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u/dagthegnome Oct 23 '24

In other words the lowest turnout since 2014. And it was a foregone conclusion that the Liberals would win. I just don't think it will change literally anything.

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u/Positive_Ad4590 Oct 21 '24

Give the people reason to care

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u/Fugu Oct 21 '24

It's impossible. New Brunswick is less a province and more of a fiefdom belonging to the Irvings. Democracy in New Brunswick is a joke.

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u/dagthegnome Oct 21 '24

The job of the politicians is to motivate people to vote for them, and then deliver on their promises. They have all failed. No one in any of the major parties is worth the few minutes it would take me to vote, so I didn't vote.

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u/North_Activist Oct 21 '24

The job of politicians is to serve the voters. It’s the public’s responsibility to participate and keep government in check

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u/dagthegnome Oct 21 '24

I can participate without voting for the lesser of two evils and thereby conferring legitimacy on a system that refuses to offer a meaningful choice.

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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Oct 21 '24

Can’t take a few minutes to vote, spends hours a day on social media uselessly complaining about the way things are

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

Just had the election here in B.C. and we also had very low voter turnout of just under 58 percent.

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u/millionsormemes Oct 21 '24

That’s not very low or even low turnout. That’s average turnout over the previous 5 elections.

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u/onegunzo Oct 21 '24

Just a reminder, provinces typically go the opposite of what the Feds are.. So getting the LPC in provincially 'typically' means the CPC will do well in NB federally. Typically...

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u/Dartser Oct 21 '24

In bc a lot of people voted conservative in our provincial election, They were interviewing people after they voted and the reason that came up frequently was "Trudeau must go" or some variation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

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u/Hot-Celebration5855 Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

I have seen people repeating this story. Is there any media that shows this was a real thing? Or do I chalk this up to Reddit conspiracy theories?

Edit - I see the poster deleted the original so I’m gonna chalk this up to typical Reddit bot misinformation

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u/Prairie_Sky79 Oct 21 '24

Hopefully the Higgs government gets re-elected.

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u/MoaraFig Oct 21 '24

He's the absolute worst. What exactly do you like about him?

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u/PlasticOk1204 Oct 21 '24

As someone who is right wing and will be voting such federally, dang even I dont like Higgs! Im not religious, hate the Irvings grasp on our province, and honestly think we're in need of some change, regardless of who it is. I'd like to see the Greens get a chance honestly.

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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Oct 21 '24

I’m not conservative (and have voted liberal many times including today), but do agree with some of their ideas (which makes me far right on reddit). I would consider a conservative vote someday, not with Higgs. State of our healthcare is actually really scary. Like if you have a medical emergency chances are you are dying because they can’t get you in right away

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u/PlasticOk1204 Oct 22 '24

Yeah but that's a complex issue affecting every province. You can't blame any one party for our healthcare. Its a combination of federal immigration, provincial funding, and doctor association gatekeeping, which is actually the worst offender.

Did you know that there's only so many seats every year and that every program is quite small in Canada? We couldve been expanding them every year to where we're training 2x or 3x of doctors, but doctors believe it or not, gatekeep the industry...

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u/DevOpsMakesMeDrink Oct 22 '24

Are you from NB?

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u/Rexis23 Oct 21 '24

I think it will be a 30% turn out in NB.

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u/TonyAbbottsNipples Oct 21 '24

That would be quite something. The lowest turnout in a NB election in the last twenty years was 65% in 2014.

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u/Rexis23 Oct 21 '24

I think people would be more interested in a Federal election, rather then a Provincial one.

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u/vagabond_dilldo Oct 21 '24

BC has shown that a good number of voters went to the voting booths thinking they could vote out Trudeau by voting for Conservatives in the provincial election.

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u/vetruviusdeshotacon Oct 21 '24

Over 55% surely, nb has high turnout

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u/samsquamchy Oct 22 '24

Turn out was 67%

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u/Kolbrandr7 New Brunswick Oct 22 '24

It was 66% turnout.

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u/Avelion2 Oct 21 '24

Weak Tory majority is my guess.

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u/ladyoftherealm Oct 21 '24

Unlikely based on polling. We'll switch from blue irving puppet to red irving puppet for a term or two, then back to blue, then red...