I’m not Canadian, but is the winner the one who hates Trump the most? Like, if you don’t hate Trump nor like him, you basically automatically lose the election?
I voted. I hope turnout is much better than it has been. It’s ridiculous that only ~60% of eligible voters come out, and the government is decided by ~32% of that.
I’m in Poilievre’s riding bordering Carney’s riding. Turnout was high for early voting yesterday, and they seem to have lines under control. We also are subject to the longest ballot mischief, 91 names on it and old ladies we met in line were comparing their heights to it.
Worried. Poilievre is part of a pattern. People are tired of the outdated neo-liberal system and this figure comes along who seems pragmatic and straightforward, and his solutions seem simple… and then (if he gets elected) he will probably turn out to be a bought and paid for cog in the machine who doesn’t give a shit about the people and their wellbeing. The policies he’s supported speaks for itself. Look at his achievements and tell me whether or not you think he’s gonna look after average people, or whether he’s an oppressor looking after the interests of corporations and the ultra-wealthy. He’s a snake in the grass who presents himself as “the adult in the room.”
LPC is projected to win a majority, without needing to compromise with the NDP (thank god). I, personally, believe Carney is going to be competent enough at his job to fix most of the issues that have been festering for the last few years, and firmly align Canada with the democratic bloc of countries.
Feeling like Carney is going to win but it’s still worrisome. PP has way too many trump talking points and I really don’t trust any right wing government around the world at the moment. Also the right wing freaks in the US who support him are not encouraging at all.
Carney is a serious and intelligent person with solid plans for the future. It honestly feels awesome hearing him speak, hearing plans to build Canada up and invest heavily into this country.
I think a financial guru is just what we need during a trade war with America.
I want this election to be over. The anxiety is doing me in. I sincerely hope Carney will win (though I typically vote Green or NDP) but PPs mega rally’s and talking points are scaring me.
I’ve never felt more discouraged about the future of Canada.
We have the option between a pro-corporate neoliberal technocrat, an pro-corporate neoliberal reactionary, a Bollinger Bolshevik and whatever inconsequential, noteless figure that “leads” the Green Party.
We’ve resolved to stick to the doctrines of the quiet past in the stormy present, and to remain a silly people in perilously serious times.
I want change.
The last 10 years have been rough. I don’t recognize the country I was born in.
I’m born from immigrants who came in with a dream. I want children but what future will we leave for them if we continue on this path?
Anything to fcuk over that maple MAGA tin peckered two faced weasel ethically, I’m down for. Just voted–whispered “fuck Trump” to myself quietly as I marked my ballot.
I have quite a few friends that seem to be on board with PP for some reason definitely appealing more to the working class. Not sure how it’s going to play out. I think carney is better but I’m also not overly pleased with how things have gone over the past 10
Years either
Bad. PP and Carney and their parties are fucking terrible. Singh and the NDP aren’t much better. And then you have the far right PPC who are completely nuts and the greens who are somehow more incompetent than all of them
Feeling cautiously optimistic… Voted yesterday. I am really rooting for Carney, and the polls are looking pretty good too with a fairly consistent Liberal lead. I’m still afraid that the Conservatives will win though, and that is a terrifying prospect considering their proposed policies.
Optimistic. The polls are all pointing to a Liberal Majority, and they’re pretty accurate. PP really hasn’t been able to make much traction against Carney, largely because we really don’t like him. The Conservatives have drifted off to the far right. They don’t really resonate with Canadian anymore.
And before anyone’s mentions the USA election, what happened there isn’t really applicable here. The CPC have a seat gap of over 60, and aren’t making ground. With our system, Kamala would have won or Trump would only have a minority.
I’m not looking forward to it. Mostly I don’t know who to vote for.
I typically vote conservative but Pierre has shown he is a boot licker to the US so I have no interest in voting for him anymore.
I’m not voting liberal because of there insanely idiotic gun policies as well as there failure to really improve the housing market.
The NDP don’t have a spine, they backed the Liberals until the finance minister left and they switch teams, condemning the Liberal government, and then switched back after what felt like 2 weeks.
So I feel like all I got is green but that’s like voting independent in the US, not really a great option. I might just pull the trigger on that as more of a vote to say I hate all the current party leaders and want better options.
This might be the first election I am going to skip in decades. Our line to vote has never been this long. Not going to stand in line for an hour for a foregone conclusion.
It would be nice to have a party worth voting for.
The greens are a joke, the NDP is riddled with fatal hypocrisy and the PPC is obviously a political polarity trap for crazies.
Between red team and blue team, despite the best attempts of reddit and our media, I really don’t care who wins. I honestly see two soulless ghouls in suits who will sell us out at the first opportunity.
At best, we’ll shuffle some deck chairs around on this Tittanic and that side will pretend it really mattered. What we really need is a fundamental renegotiation of what our government is and does. Right now it’s pre-internet tech in a post cellphone world and needs serious systemic changes to corruption, fraud and electoral reform. None of which is on the ballot.
Pick between the two groups who deserve all of your scorn. Career politican, or corrupt banker.
Don’t like the enshittification of politics (read: becoming more like the USA). I always thought that politics shouldn’t be like show business, with flashy catchphrases, gotcha moments, and lack of respect. I don’t like that we see this more and more
Disappointed and worried. We are divided and lack nuance as a country. The rise of Maple MAGA types is a direct result of Liberal incompetence–endless virtue signaling while failing the average Canadian at every turn.
Poilievre talks a big game, but when push comes to shove, he folds. It’s easy to call out Trudeau’s nonsense–anyone with a functioning brain can do that. But when it’s time to lead, he clings to right-wing populism like a lamprey to Trump’s asshole.
Both of these clowns will back Israel no matter what. Both will continue to fail miserably on housing.
If Poilievre didn’t make my skin crawl, I might consider him–he’s less rabid about criminalizing gun owners and might actually reform criminal justice in a rational way. But I can’t ignore the company he keeps–grifters, bigots, and conspiracy pushers.
Carney? He’ll smile while screwing over working people, piling more restrictions on legal gun owners, and handing real criminals a slap on the wrist. That only fuels the next wave of conservative outrage, which works out perfectly for both parties.
We’re screwed until we stop yelling at each other and start making these politicians feel the heat–every last one of them.
Frustrated that I don’t really believe any of the parties will ameliorate anything, and that de facto I need to vote Liberal in order to keep the Conservatives out of power.
I’ll very conflicted. The liberals are on the same path with a new bus driver. They had 10 years and they drove the bus straight into the river.
I usually vote conservative. However, I absolutely despise a section of the voter base. And don’t want to make a mistake and embolden maple maga even more than they are.
Ndp? Liberals light.
Ppc? Not a chance.
I honestly don’t know 100% how I’ll vote. It’ll probably he cons, but if the libs could just leave the guns alone (this is a huge part of my culture whether you like/believe it or not), make a statement that they will cancel the carbon tax and not just pause it (it was costing my family about $60/week in carbon tax just to fuel up our vehicles), and increased the restrictions on immigration to something reasonable (we don’t need immigrants to work at jobs that teenagers used to do, but aren’t hired for anymore). Then I would have no problem voting liberal.
I’ll be voting for Carney. No doubt in my mind after seeing years of Poileuvre whine about Trudeau and court right wing extremists.
It’s worrying on the side because Carney seems like the kind of candidate that would have been considered a conservative 15 years ago. After watching the quick slide of the Overton window in American politics I have concerns that the same is happening here only slower. I’m also tired of voting Liberal instead of truly left-wing, but what can you do.
Carney is the man for the job today, and I’ll look forward to voting more progressive candidates into power in future elections once the Tangerine Menace is taken out back and shot by whoever coups him out.
Optimistic. I think Carney will get a majority government. My polling stations are super busy. I think people realize, this is a very important election
I got in early and voted. I know my riding is staunchly conservative so I’m hoping the rest of the country comes through and gives the PM his victory. I’m not optimistic though.
Well, I hope the number of eligible voters that vote is very, very high, since however it turns out, it’s better if a majority spoke up.
Canada averages 70%, that’s good, I hope you get above 75% voter turnout.
Over here we generally have 80+% turnout, and it actually helps when the results come in, since whether you like the result or not, it is a democratic election and the majority has spoken.
1 – I loved how many people were already at the voting station I went to yesterday morning, only 2 1/2hrs after advanced voting opened. So many people on my city’s Reddit talking about which stations had lines out the door and how long a wait they’d had.
I will not be surprised if once the election is over with, no matter who wins, the numbers show that a lot of us actually thought their vote matters and showed up.
2 – Feeling a little worried about the vote splitting polls are showing in some of my local ridings. I’m in Alberta, and sadly, we are notoriously pro-con, though luckily I live in one of the small non-blue islands that manage to survive here. But we are surrounded by a sea of blue, both provincially and federally.
I used to be in a riding that last federal election ousted the long time serving con candidate, we chose an NDP, and celebrated!
This go around, our district lines were changed in 2023, with the addition of more ridings, and I am no longer am in that riding, but I’ve been paying attention to my former riding. The reigning NDP there, is showing numbers that are similar to the liberal candidate, where Liberal numbers last time were fairly low, both fairly respectable. But sadly, that same con from last time is running again, and while his numbers are showing the same as they were last time, that puts him ahead of the NDP and Liberal. Too many former NDP switching to Liberal, causing the NDP to drop. I really hope voters there do a little more research before they vote. It’s not as simple as just voting for the party. In my riding, my view was as simple as voting for the party, as there were only 2 showing any sizable numbers, and I sure as heck was not voting con. But if I was still in my old riding, I would be a ball of stress right now over voting.
It’s between a dude who has demonstrated that he knows what he’s doing and a dude who thinks he does but hasn’t done anything worthwhile in his entire career.
So it’s basically a perfect mirror of the American election. I only hope to every god out there that we’ve learned from it.
I just wish we had a conservative leader that never speaks about abortion, lgbt, gender, woke, etc, on their platform ever again. We decided on these issues years ago – move the fuck forward already. Social issues are such a waste of time when every other issue will raise all boats and improve everyones lives no matter their gender or race.
Canada desperately needs a change in government. The Liberals policies of the last 10 years have turned us from the envy of the world to a complete joke of a country.
Pierre will win this election weather you like it or not. It’s just the way the country seems to be shifting. I work in government and do a lot of consensus with people on both sides id the political spectrum all over the country, carney just doesn’t have the traction. Almost all the Pollsters are left learning so they have obviously inflated numbers.
Canada will assuredly fall apart under Carney. Western separation sentiment is growing at a rapid rate and Carney has shown no inclination to unite Canada.
Not to mention the affordability crisis, the failed carbon tax, gun grab and catch & release… it’s time to close the book on this horrible chapter in Canadian history.
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I’m not Canadian, but is the winner the one who hates Trump the most? Like, if you don’t hate Trump nor like him, you basically automatically lose the election?
I voted. I hope turnout is much better than it has been. It’s ridiculous that only ~60% of eligible voters come out, and the government is decided by ~32% of that.
I’m in Poilievre’s riding bordering Carney’s riding. Turnout was high for early voting yesterday, and they seem to have lines under control. We also are subject to the longest ballot mischief, 91 names on it and old ladies we met in line were comparing their heights to it.
Sorry 🙏
Worried. Poilievre is part of a pattern. People are tired of the outdated neo-liberal system and this figure comes along who seems pragmatic and straightforward, and his solutions seem simple… and then (if he gets elected) he will probably turn out to be a bought and paid for cog in the machine who doesn’t give a shit about the people and their wellbeing. The policies he’s supported speaks for itself. Look at his achievements and tell me whether or not you think he’s gonna look after average people, or whether he’s an oppressor looking after the interests of corporations and the ultra-wealthy. He’s a snake in the grass who presents himself as “the adult in the room.”
As a Canadian, the responses in this thread are, uh, interesting so far
LPC is projected to win a majority, without needing to compromise with the NDP (thank god). I, personally, believe Carney is going to be competent enough at his job to fix most of the issues that have been festering for the last few years, and firmly align Canada with the democratic bloc of countries.
I voted at an Elections Canada office because I didn’t want to have to think about it anymore.
It’s pretty much a sure thing the lpc will win. I don’t like em but trust them more than the CPC. I just can’t wait for it to be over.
Either way, my riding is going Green so I’ll probably vote for them
Feeling like Carney is going to win but it’s still worrisome. PP has way too many trump talking points and I really don’t trust any right wing government around the world at the moment. Also the right wing freaks in the US who support him are not encouraging at all.
Carney is a serious and intelligent person with solid plans for the future. It honestly feels awesome hearing him speak, hearing plans to build Canada up and invest heavily into this country.
I think a financial guru is just what we need during a trade war with America.
I’m choosing to feel hopeful. I need to feel hopeful.
I’m flying home to vote and it won’t be for that sketchy guy who won’t get a security clearance.
Anxious, I’m not able to vote and I just hope we don’t end up with the Canadian version of the Fanta Fascist as our prime minister
Extremely nervous. Voted early yesterday and might avoid social media until it’s all over.
Which are join EU parties?
I want this election to be over. The anxiety is doing me in. I sincerely hope Carney will win (though I typically vote Green or NDP) but PPs mega rally’s and talking points are scaring me.
Nothingly Numb
Can someone recommend the best seat covers for the 2025 Outback Premium?
(Tip from an American) – Choose wisely…
VOTE BLUE!!!!!!
I should have said – (to quote Rush): “If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice”
I was pretty impressed with turnout for day 1 of advanced voting. That makes me happy, because this election is way too critical and important.
American here.
Poilievre is a fascist in the same league as Trump.
Everything we’re going through now will happen to you if he wins.
I’ve never felt more discouraged about the future of Canada.
We have the option between a pro-corporate neoliberal technocrat, an pro-corporate neoliberal reactionary, a Bollinger Bolshevik and whatever inconsequential, noteless figure that “leads” the Green Party.
We’ve resolved to stick to the doctrines of the quiet past in the stormy present, and to remain a silly people in perilously serious times.
We’re fucked.
Leafs HABS 🇨🇦🥅😎
Not Canadian, so no feelings.
I want change.
The last 10 years have been rough. I don’t recognize the country I was born in.
I’m born from immigrants who came in with a dream. I want children but what future will we leave for them if we continue on this path?
Anything to fcuk over that maple MAGA tin peckered two faced weasel ethically, I’m down for. Just voted–whispered “fuck Trump” to myself quietly as I marked my ballot.
Optimistic that Trump pissed off enough Canadians for the Liberals to hold on.
Mark Carney was kind enough to save the British economy from collapse during Brexit, so cheers for that.
I normally vote NDP but I strategically voted Liberal this time because I want to do everything I can to stop Milhouse from being prime minister.
Strategic voting is the only way this round, in my opinion. Who’s best to fight the southern nonsense.
Hopeful. I think Carney is the guy we need for these trying times, and I’m somewhat confident he will win a majority
I hope the Canadians learn from our example and the disaster it has wrought on ourselves and the whole world!! Poilievre is Canada’s Trump!!
Voted for the Conservate Party, I am done with Liberals.
I have quite a few friends that seem to be on board with PP for some reason definitely appealing more to the working class. Not sure how it’s going to play out. I think carney is better but I’m also not overly pleased with how things have gone over the past 10
Years either
Bad. PP and Carney and their parties are fucking terrible. Singh and the NDP aren’t much better. And then you have the far right PPC who are completely nuts and the greens who are somehow more incompetent than all of them
Canada’s about to have its main character moment. If Carney pulls this off, we might actually see leadership that doesn’t feel like reality TV.
Feeling cautiously optimistic… Voted yesterday. I am really rooting for Carney, and the polls are looking pretty good too with a fairly consistent Liberal lead. I’m still afraid that the Conservatives will win though, and that is a terrifying prospect considering their proposed policies.
Optimistic. The polls are all pointing to a Liberal Majority, and they’re pretty accurate. PP really hasn’t been able to make much traction against Carney, largely because we really don’t like him. The Conservatives have drifted off to the far right. They don’t really resonate with Canadian anymore.
And before anyone’s mentions the USA election, what happened there isn’t really applicable here. The CPC have a seat gap of over 60, and aren’t making ground. With our system, Kamala would have won or Trump would only have a minority.
I’m not looking forward to it. Mostly I don’t know who to vote for.
I typically vote conservative but Pierre has shown he is a boot licker to the US so I have no interest in voting for him anymore.
I’m not voting liberal because of there insanely idiotic gun policies as well as there failure to really improve the housing market.
The NDP don’t have a spine, they backed the Liberals until the finance minister left and they switch teams, condemning the Liberal government, and then switched back after what felt like 2 weeks.
So I feel like all I got is green but that’s like voting independent in the US, not really a great option. I might just pull the trigger on that as more of a vote to say I hate all the current party leaders and want better options.
This might be the first election I am going to skip in decades. Our line to vote has never been this long. Not going to stand in line for an hour for a foregone conclusion.
At the end of the day there’ll be a winner and a loser. And that winner will be the one saying “I’m Soorry”
It would be nice to have a party worth voting for.
The greens are a joke, the NDP is riddled with fatal hypocrisy and the PPC is obviously a political polarity trap for crazies.
Between red team and blue team, despite the best attempts of reddit and our media, I really don’t care who wins. I honestly see two soulless ghouls in suits who will sell us out at the first opportunity.
At best, we’ll shuffle some deck chairs around on this Tittanic and that side will pretend it really mattered. What we really need is a fundamental renegotiation of what our government is and does. Right now it’s pre-internet tech in a post cellphone world and needs serious systemic changes to corruption, fraud and electoral reform. None of which is on the ballot.
Pick between the two groups who deserve all of your scorn. Career politican, or corrupt banker.
Good. Early cast my vote today.
Don’t like the enshittification of politics (read: becoming more like the USA). I always thought that politics shouldn’t be like show business, with flashy catchphrases, gotcha moments, and lack of respect. I don’t like that we see this more and more
Not at all.
28 billion in undefined cuts. Yeah I’m not feeling too good
I’m nervous. Incredibly nervous. My province has suffered under conservative rule. I just hope my ID comes in time.
Canada, please do not follow suit to what the US did. Please stand your ground.
Disappointed and worried. We are divided and lack nuance as a country. The rise of Maple MAGA types is a direct result of Liberal incompetence–endless virtue signaling while failing the average Canadian at every turn.
Poilievre talks a big game, but when push comes to shove, he folds. It’s easy to call out Trudeau’s nonsense–anyone with a functioning brain can do that. But when it’s time to lead, he clings to right-wing populism like a lamprey to Trump’s asshole.
Both of these clowns will back Israel no matter what. Both will continue to fail miserably on housing.
If Poilievre didn’t make my skin crawl, I might consider him–he’s less rabid about criminalizing gun owners and might actually reform criminal justice in a rational way. But I can’t ignore the company he keeps–grifters, bigots, and conspiracy pushers.
Carney? He’ll smile while screwing over working people, piling more restrictions on legal gun owners, and handing real criminals a slap on the wrist. That only fuels the next wave of conservative outrage, which works out perfectly for both parties.
We’re screwed until we stop yelling at each other and start making these politicians feel the heat–every last one of them.
Frustrated that I don’t really believe any of the parties will ameliorate anything, and that de facto I need to vote Liberal in order to keep the Conservatives out of power.
Everyone here acting like Carney isn’t going to win in spite of literally everything the US has done to unite them against them.
The dude’s going to win in a landslide.
American media isn’t being bombarded with propaganda, so I forgor about it.
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I’ll very conflicted. The liberals are on the same path with a new bus driver. They had 10 years and they drove the bus straight into the river.
I usually vote conservative. However, I absolutely despise a section of the voter base. And don’t want to make a mistake and embolden maple maga even more than they are.
Ndp? Liberals light.
Ppc? Not a chance.
I honestly don’t know 100% how I’ll vote. It’ll probably he cons, but if the libs could just leave the guns alone (this is a huge part of my culture whether you like/believe it or not), make a statement that they will cancel the carbon tax and not just pause it (it was costing my family about $60/week in carbon tax just to fuel up our vehicles), and increased the restrictions on immigration to something reasonable (we don’t need immigrants to work at jobs that teenagers used to do, but aren’t hired for anymore). Then I would have no problem voting liberal.
I’ll be voting for Carney. No doubt in my mind after seeing years of Poileuvre whine about Trudeau and court right wing extremists.
It’s worrying on the side because Carney seems like the kind of candidate that would have been considered a conservative 15 years ago. After watching the quick slide of the Overton window in American politics I have concerns that the same is happening here only slower. I’m also tired of voting Liberal instead of truly left-wing, but what can you do.
Carney is the man for the job today, and I’ll look forward to voting more progressive candidates into power in future elections once the Tangerine Menace is taken out back and shot by whoever coups him out.
Optimistic. I think Carney will get a majority government. My polling stations are super busy. I think people realize, this is a very important election
I got in early and voted. I know my riding is staunchly conservative so I’m hoping the rest of the country comes through and gives the PM his victory. I’m not optimistic though.
Well, I hope the number of eligible voters that vote is very, very high, since however it turns out, it’s better if a majority spoke up.
Canada averages 70%, that’s good, I hope you get above 75% voter turnout.
Over here we generally have 80+% turnout, and it actually helps when the results come in, since whether you like the result or not, it is a democratic election and the majority has spoken.
Will musk try to intervene like he did in America and Germany?
2 different ways right now :
1 – I loved how many people were already at the voting station I went to yesterday morning, only 2 1/2hrs after advanced voting opened. So many people on my city’s Reddit talking about which stations had lines out the door and how long a wait they’d had.
I will not be surprised if once the election is over with, no matter who wins, the numbers show that a lot of us actually thought their vote matters and showed up.
2 – Feeling a little worried about the vote splitting polls are showing in some of my local ridings. I’m in Alberta, and sadly, we are notoriously pro-con, though luckily I live in one of the small non-blue islands that manage to survive here. But we are surrounded by a sea of blue, both provincially and federally.
I used to be in a riding that last federal election ousted the long time serving con candidate, we chose an NDP, and celebrated!
This go around, our district lines were changed in 2023, with the addition of more ridings, and I am no longer am in that riding, but I’ve been paying attention to my former riding. The reigning NDP there, is showing numbers that are similar to the liberal candidate, where Liberal numbers last time were fairly low, both fairly respectable. But sadly, that same con from last time is running again, and while his numbers are showing the same as they were last time, that puts him ahead of the NDP and Liberal. Too many former NDP switching to Liberal, causing the NDP to drop. I really hope voters there do a little more research before they vote. It’s not as simple as just voting for the party. In my riding, my view was as simple as voting for the party, as there were only 2 showing any sizable numbers, and I sure as heck was not voting con. But if I was still in my old riding, I would be a ball of stress right now over voting.
I hope they choose better than the US
I already voted. So I’m feeling good about having done my part.
Cautious optimism. I’ve been watching a lot of both sides for the last 3 months and it’s going to be a very interesting race I think
I’m scared, to be honest.
It’s between a dude who has demonstrated that he knows what he’s doing and a dude who thinks he does but hasn’t done anything worthwhile in his entire career.
So it’s basically a perfect mirror of the American election. I only hope to every god out there that we’ve learned from it.
Whoever wins, living in rural Alberta, I’ll never hear the end of it.
I just wish we had a conservative leader that never speaks about abortion, lgbt, gender, woke, etc, on their platform ever again. We decided on these issues years ago – move the fuck forward already. Social issues are such a waste of time when every other issue will raise all boats and improve everyones lives no matter their gender or race.
Canada desperately needs a change in government. The Liberals policies of the last 10 years have turned us from the envy of the world to a complete joke of a country.
Im voting for the party with the platform that seems most serious. (Partie Rhinocéros)
I could not imagine ever wanting to vote for a central banker
Pierre will win this election weather you like it or not. It’s just the way the country seems to be shifting. I work in government and do a lot of consensus with people on both sides id the political spectrum all over the country, carney just doesn’t have the traction. Almost all the Pollsters are left learning so they have obviously inflated numbers.
Canada will assuredly fall apart under Carney. Western separation sentiment is growing at a rapid rate and Carney has shown no inclination to unite Canada.
Not to mention the affordability crisis, the failed carbon tax, gun grab and catch & release… it’s time to close the book on this horrible chapter in Canadian history.