There's like 3 by-elections happening in and around Toronto and one in Montreal that if they stay Liberal will push Carney into a Majority government. Now, in normal times I would not think that a majority is good, as things may get done, but the other parties have no real say so there's not compromises...that said, the Cons will just continue to beat their Canada-is-Broken-We-need-PP drums and not compromise on anything...so in this case, I think Carney getting a majority is good, and if he does bad things then in 4 years we can give him the boot.
That said, these by-elections, which would normally not new news, are in the news due to their ability to give Carney the seats for a Liberal majority...but now you have everyone under the sun coming out saying "An election? ! How did I not know?! Goddamn sneaky liberals!"...and such things...which just means they aren't paying attention that these are by-elections and unless they are in the ridings, they are not voting.
But on top of these on social media you get SO many people saying that it would be rigged, and that the last election was rigged...their claims are all a complete indictment of the civics educations in this country...
1. They claim that Carney was "selected not elected"...(oh a three word phrase to repeat, where have I seen THAT tactic before?)....because in Canada each party needs a leader, and Trudeau stepped down so the Liberal party (internally) chose from 4 new candidiates of which Carney was overwhelmingly chosen (I voted in that party choice), to lead the party. This is different from the eventual General election that was called for Trudeau stepping down and thus his govt collapsing....but they've conflated these two things to claim that becuase Carney was chosen from amongst the other candidates, but it didn't happen for the general public and just registered Liberals...that it's a rig...nevermind that all the parties select new leaders in the same way, and I was not part of the selection process when PP was chosen as Conservative leader because I'm not a registered conservative. It's the dumbest argument of all time...but explaining it when they just shove a 3-word buzz phrase at you is exhausting.
2. They claim that the General election was rigged. It's pretty much impossible to cheat in a Canadian election. We have an independent elections body that oversees our elections, and the process is that a member of each party is present at all polling stations from the moment they open until the moment the votes are all in and counted...so for any cheating to happen you would need people in other parties to be complicit in helping the other team get more votes...which I don't think I need to explain does not occur.
3. They bang on about the fact that the votes leave the polling location one a car or whatever as a gotcha....there are videos where conservative shitbags have actually videod themselves acosting election workers for this action...the part they don't understand is that the votes are LITERALLY counted in the polling station as you vote and put through a machine that counts the vote then and there. The actual paper ballots leave the property only for records keeping after the fact. So those votes cannot be used elsewhere or to help anyone get more votes. It's impossible....so these Rebel News chuds video people doing essentially record keeping and scream at them that they caught them lying and cheating...again, exhausting.
4. Oh my favourite talking point is their defense of PP losing his seat in Ottawa that he'd held for 20 years...they claim that the riding's boundaries were changed and thus he got less votes than he would have...which, 2 things, 1. When a ridings boundaries change, the elected MP of that riding must look at the change and approve it....PP approved that change when he was MP an it happened months before he was turfed. 2. the changes to the riding actually BENEFITTED him by traditional voting numbers, the place that was added to the riding had voted mostly conservative in the past...and he STILL lost the riding by like 1500 votes...so the real answer is that he was JUST that unlikable to the people off his riding who had kept him in power for 20 years and wanted someone else.
an offshoot of the same body that oversees the Canadian election, does the provincial elections...but of course you don't see these same entities bitching about Doug Ford's Conservatives having a 3rd supermajority...becuase that's their team dontchaknow....although Ford (as much as I dislike him)( gets along with Carney and thinks he should have a majority so the hardcore PP cons all call him a Liberal now...LOL...I'm like come live in Ontario, that man is NOT enacting non-conservative policies...he's just inexplicably personable and gets along not just with Carney but deeply leftist Toronto mayor Olivia Chow as well.
Anyways, it's so annoying to watch all these people who failed civics parrot insane conspiracies.
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QuickTidal, on 01 April 2026 - 11:36 AM, said:
