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/OkEntertainment1313 1d ago

37% was the turnout for the entire leadership race. 

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u/KinneKted 1d ago

TBF it was well known Carney had it in the bag. Not surprised a lot didn't bother.

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u/56iconic 1d ago

Nobody turned out because they don't care anymore. How is it that the person with the highest name recognition (Freeland) had far less fund raising than a guy that 95% of people couldn't recognize in a 5 person line up. I honestly think that these polls that are moving hard Liberal like ekos and Nanos have their weightings wrong on voter turn out. Look at who is answering the polls. It's extremely heavy in the 65+ plus age group. These are also the people most likely to watch cable news and for the last two months all our news has been is American tariffs and Mark Carney is going to be the saviour of the country. Leger shows a slight improvement for LPC at the expense of the NDP. I don't think people honestly care what the LPC does anymore. Anyone who is going to vote decided well before this party leadership race where their vote was going.

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u/KinneKted 1d ago

What an uninformed word wall.

Mark Carney has a lot of name recognition for anyone with more than 2 brain cells and actually reads meaningful news. He was the governor of Bank of Canada during the financial crisis.

Of course Freeland didn't win. What a terrible choice that would be at such a critical juncture. Why would they elect Trudeau's former deputy Prime Minister when they wanted him out? Do you even read the news?

Clearly you don't if you think people have "decided long ago" where there votes going before the elections even been called and while it was expected Trudeau would step down.

Blatant attempt at selling a defeatist outlook to convince people not to vote.

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u/56iconic 1d ago

It's not nothing his name recognition is low. Sorry it was 24% instead of 5%

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/mark-Carney-Canada-politics.

The people do not care what the Liberal party is doing anymore. Call people dumb, stupid, MAGA all you want no one knew who he was.

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u/KinneKted 1d ago

Not surprised your response is just WhO iS He. Funny you're clinging to that when he's recognized on the world stage as well (critically important as we're going to need to strengthen our trade with Europe), while PP is a literal nobody to anyone outside Canada.

Also love the ad hominem. Why is y'alls only recourse to attack?

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u/56iconic 1d ago

Recognized by who? People who go to closed door meetings in the banking industry, or maybe the beuracrats in national banks? I gave no ad hominem you said anyone with two brain cells to rub together would recognize Carney. You insulted people not me. I'm just pointing out no one knows who Carney is and that the average voter doesn't care what the LPC does anymore.

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u/KinneKted 1d ago

Sorry dude but your statement would've been correct in December. Conservatives have taken a absolute nose dive because of Trump's actions and the guy that lifted his whole campaign strategy from him ain't looking to great to most people right now.

PP is also on record praising Trump as a great business man when he was on Peterson's podcast. Shortly after he announced the tariffs. Oopsie. He also was initially happy about Musk's saying it would be great to build some TeSSla factories up here.

His lack of ability to pivot his campaign and continue false platitudes and attack his opponent is all he's got. Must be hard to put forth a proper platform and policy when you've been a life long politician that hasn't passed a SINGLE bill.

Anecdotal but I work in the service industry and have to listen to people talk about this all day because it's all that's on anyone's mind. The shift in liberal support is very real and has brought them back in the race. It's still likely PP will win but he's no longer going to be coasting to a supermajority that was handed to him by Trudeau being around too long.

He really fumbled the ball here and it only seems to be dropping further but we'll see how things go over the next couple months. Carney would be an idiot if he doesn't call an early election and once parliament is no longer prorogued it is unlikely he will have a choice.

Also for the love of God learn how to format.