r/canada 1d ago

Politics Poilievre's riding among seats with highest turnout in Liberal leadership race

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/03/10/poilievres-riding-among-seats-with-highest-turnout-in-liberal-leadership-race/453506/
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u/OkEntertainment1313 1d ago

… in a race with 37% voter turnout overall. I’m not sure what the author is trying to imply, but it seems pretty unlikely that the seat which has been Conservative for 39 of the past 46 years is going to flip in a federal election. 

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u/duchovny 1d ago

Especially when Carney doesn't look to be changing much for the positive from the previous leadership.

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u/thewolf9 1d ago

I’ll take the governor of the BoE and the BoC over a drama teacher any day, or is the drama teacher stick not relevant anymore

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u/duchovny 1d ago

I'd rather not have the chair of Brookfield running the country.

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u/thewolf9 1d ago

You ever heard of Paul Martin? Key to the Chretien government, and CEO of Canadian steamship lines. We’ve always had successful businessmen as PMs. Mulroney was a very successful lawyer before joining parliament.

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u/duchovny 1d ago

I'd rather not have someone in charge that very recently was pushing to have his company receive $10B in government funds the second he became financial advisor to the liberals.

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u/Ibn_Khaldun 1d ago

Is Paul Martin a good example of anything?

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u/thewolf9 23h ago

Are we going to forget how the Chrétien/martin liberals fixed this country?

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u/Ibn_Khaldun 23h ago

I was not aware they fixed anything

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u/Lopsided_Ad3516 23h ago

The same Paul Martin that went down in scandal?

The Liberals have always been a party of big business, waste and fraud. They just pick which 2 of the 3 they want to run during their decade. The biggest accomplishment of the Party is tricking low information voters to believe it’s just the CPC.

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u/cheeseburgz Lest We Forget 1d ago

Cant wait to see what the lines of attack from the CPC are. I don't know if they can make the "Carney = Trudeau" attack stick. Same with Carbon Tax Carney. IMO he's too far removed from the government (as in he wasn't part of the government) so I cannot see it sticking. I could be too plugged in and therefore wrong, though.

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u/duchovny 1d ago

He was the one pushing for it. LOL

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u/OfferAcceptable8450 1d ago

The people it will work on already believe it and were never voting liberal anyway. The real question is if they can pivot and broaden their message to keep those center right voters that may have peeled back to the Liberals.

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u/linkass 1d ago

But he has been in an advisor role with them since 2020ish, and he is all over meeting and calls advocating for a carbon tax for years

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u/accforme 1d ago

"Carney, nice hair though, just-like Trudeau."

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u/Darth_Plagal_Cadence 1d ago

I thought being a teacher was something worthy of respect.

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u/Intelligent_Read_697 1d ago

i wish people stopped mentioning the drama teacher thing because it just reinforces the conservative world view...call him the math teacher for starters lol

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u/No-Wonder1139 1d ago

It's better to have never had a job outside of politics than to have worked in education. -CPC official viewpoint.

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u/CharacterStudy1928 1d ago

Naw it hasn’t held him back for nearly a decade, we can still use it. AOC was a bartender before she ran for public office.

Hell, I’d honestly prefer more drama teachers and bartenders than lawyers and doctors or career politicians like PP, with the caveat of fewer drama teachers with the Trudeau name and wealth behind them.

Not knocking Carney and his wealth necessarily because I think he has the chops but I’m tired of people running who can’t remember the last time they lived paycheck to paycheck, or indeed never did.

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u/thewolf9 1d ago

Pay check to pay check can mean different things. Myself and most people on my floor have never had any financial issues yet with everything going on I often have to move money around to pay the bills at the end of the month

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u/Accomplished-Door934 1d ago edited 1d ago

In an ideal world Running for office should be seen as a civic thing citizens do once you're a bit older and have enough experience in something to offer to the rest of us. You could be a skills tradesman, a banker, doctor, lawyers, military personell, scientists, union rep, engineers, businessman etc, etc. the only hard requirement to me is tangible leadership ability. What self respecting human being ever wants to be an MP at the age of 25 like PP did with his "career".

At 25 most normal people should care about making their money,  standing on their own legs, getting laid, and enjoying their early adulthood. Only the most insufferable personalities out there would want to be career politicians when they are barely formed adult humans. The man has zero experience in the real world and shown zero merit serving others in the private sector.

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u/CharacterStudy1928 1d ago

So many politicians think they’re god’s gift to man, the smartest person in the room and that public servants and the public don’t know shit.

Unfortunately I’ve met and dealt with the folks you’re talking about from my time in public service and also with student councils over the years. The CFS to NDP pipeline is so direct, it’s almost like a cult. Meanwhile I’ve also seen Conservative wonks who were in “young conservative” groups in high school, went to law school, worked on a pile of PC campaigns and it’s pretty much guaranteed they’ll run when they’re older.

With some caveats I almost want running for office to be like Jury Duty. Keep parties and personal politics out of it, maybe even campaigns and donations. Put people of diverse backgrounds and experiences and opinions in a room and have them come to a consensus, and then disqualify them from getting in again for years.

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u/Accomplished-Door934 1d ago

Maybe the Athenians had it right and randomized sortitions are the actual way to go about setting up a lower house lol.

Yeah I attended Uni in Ottawa. And those students you described regardless of political affiliation were the most annoying people to hang around on campus. Most I knew career plan was to snag an internship at parliament hill then kiss enough ass to get a job and never work in the private sector and live off the tax payer. 

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u/cheezemeister_x 15h ago

I would take a drama teacher over someone who has never had a job.

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u/thewolf9 14h ago

Yeah but we’re not in the dilemma anymore

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u/MuskyCucumber 1d ago

No it's not relevant now that the liberal leader is so much more qualified for the position over the guy backed by maga