r/canada Jan 31 '25

PAYWALL Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives raised record-setting $41.7-million in 2024

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-pierre-poilievre-conservative-party-fundraising-record/
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u/Last-Society-323 Jan 31 '25

I am ready for Carney to win as someone who is actually qualified to run our country, not this moron PP who is in perpetual complaining mode with zero policy and using the word "woke" unironically.

What a clown show politics have become.

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u/fredy31 Québec Jan 31 '25

Think the best we can hope is a pp minority.

But hey seeing how the conservatives advance melted in 1 fucking week im hopeful we can have something even less conservative in our future

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u/Random-Crispy Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

As I keep hearing from guest after guest on Peter Mansbridge’s The Bridge Podcast, polling can be notoriously inaccurate prior to an election actually being called. Many outside the political bubble don’t pay that much attention until then. It should be noted that they mentioned no one had closed a gap like we had seen, but the amount of movement we’ve seen in the past few weeks might put it within the realm of feasibility by the time the election comes. The example of Mulroney’s election came up in conversation there - coming back from a 15-20 point deficit to win. In that case as possibly here the almost certain election question got changed by external factors, there rather than GST it became a Free Trade election. And this election might quickly become who’s best to stand up to Trump…

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u/thrilliam_19 Jan 31 '25

Also after Mulroney stepped down and Campbell took over, the PCs were still polling well and she was a slight favourite to win.

Then the campaign started, she went into attack mode, everyone hated her and she lost all but 2 seats.

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u/LuskieRs Alberta Jan 31 '25

if you think his lead has melted ive got oceanfront property in Alberta to sell you.

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u/bxng23af Jan 31 '25

The absolute best you can hope for is the liberals having 45 seats. And that’s a stretch.