Elections Canada is reporting that Conservative Branden Leslie has won the Portage-Lisgar by-election. This is the riding that Maxime Bernier was running in. Unfortunately, Maxime Bernier got less votes this time round than then the PPC Candidate did in the 2021 election. So what does this mean? It means the PPC is splitting the vote. That's what it means.
I like Maxime Bernier. I think he's a really nice guy. I share many but not all of his opinions. It is disappointing that after all this effort he still doesn't have a seat in parliament. The PPC has a larger popularity vote than the Green Party so they have made progress but the Reform Party wave we saw back in 1993 isn't happening for them.
I was disappointed in the mud slinging. I think Maxime Bernier had a lot of good points but when he calls Pierre Poilievre a fake Conservative, he lost me. Pierre Poilievre's crew were doing some mud slinging of their own. They made reference to Maxime Bernier's attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos when he was a Conservative MP.
Maxime Bernier explained that Stephen Harper sent him there and I can accept that. To claim that Maxime Bernier or Pierre Poilievre is a WEF puppet is false and divisive. We need to get past this and move forward.
We now know the WEF is a sinister organization. We can all see that now.
Second place is very good.
ReplyDeleteI think you're missing the point. It was a staunch conservative riding in a rural area and it was a very distant second.
DeleteIve live in that riding for almost 60years. We are as close to Alberta conservatives as you will get outside Alberta. Many people of all ages & walks of life in riding are sick & tired of government overreach, pushing their liberal ideology on west & know all about agenda21 & 2030. We are not going to take it nor lay down our arms. No one here would vote for someone who doesn’t live here or have roots here & plus Max is a member of the privy counsel who is loyal to the King/Queen, not to the people of our riding.
Delete"Vote splitting" commonly refers to a situation in which Candidate A is elected, even though Candidates B & C whose platforms are fairly similar and very different from those of A gather more votes, together, than A. So, there was no question of vote splitting.
ReplyDeleteThe wisdom of Bernier's running ... open to question.
Actually it totally was vote splitting. Not in this riding because it didn't make a difference but in other ridings it certainly did. Stephen Harper was the reason Justin Trudeau was elected but the PPC is the reason he was reelected in the last election. Lest we forget.
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