2019 Canadian Federal Election

If Canada had PR, we’d probably see more coalitions and the likely combinations would not include the Tories unless they got an outright majority. They are quite different from the other parties in their policies.

My first reaction: we spent months campaigning, a lot of people put in a hell of a lot of work, and we spent copious quantities of cash, yet the final result was what I could have predicted a year ago! What have we accomplished?

Judy Klassen quit as a provincial MLA in Manitoba to run federally in the same area. The provincial Liberals barely had party status, when she quit they didn't. For the provincial election, all the other Liberal MLAs got re-elected, but none new. That means provincial Liberals still don't have party status. Yet, Judy failed to win a federal seat. She's now unemployed. Bad decision; that hurt the party.

In my riding, the Liberal candidate who defeated me for the nomination got almost exactly the same percent of the vote as the Liberal candidate for 2004 & 2006. The guy who replaced me for 2008 when my nomination was disallowed was the first Liberal in my riding to get less than 10% of the vote. The lady who batted her beautiful eyes at senator Rod Zimmer and was manipulated in for 2011 was the only Liberal to do worse! She was clueless. In 2015 it was a close 3-way race between NDP, Conservative, and Liberal, but she still came 3rd. But this time it's back to normal; she got the same result as 2004 & 2006.

Liberals lost the popular vote, but won a minority. Duh! We all saw that coming more that a year ago.

When Trudeau campaigned, he kept going farther and farther to hard extreme left-wing. He kept repeating the word "austerity" when he actually meant keeping spending within the government's means. Spending within your means is *NOT* austerity. Everything he said that, I wanted to vote against him. I'm a fiscally responsible Liberal, aka blue Liberal, aka centrist Liberal. Trudeau promised to balance the budget in 2019 and surplus in 2020. I never agreed with a deficit in the first place, running a deficit was a very very bad idea. And he promised the first budget would have a deficit of *LESS* than $10 billion, but his first budget announced $29.4 billion! After the audit, the first year had a deficit of "only" $17.8 billion; that was not as bad but still more than $10 billion. This March Trudeau and Morneau announced a surplus of $3.1 billion for the first eleven months of the first year 2018/2019. That's a tiny surplus, really just a contingency fund, but it meant a balanced budget. They could have had a balanced budget for 2019 and surplus for 2020, fulfilling their election promise. I was surprised and impressed. Then they just had to screw it up! For this year's budget, they went on a spending spree; they returned us to double-digit billion dollar deficits. The budget has projections for this fiscal year and 4 years in the future, they project double-digit billion dollar deficits that whole time. All they had to do was do nothing, continue their sound fiscal and financial policies, they could have said they're good money managers and fulfill their election promises. But no, they had to screw it up.

You don't abandon your political base in a vain attempt to seduce voters from other parties. That just stupid, but that's exactly what they did. I joined the Liberal party when Paul Martin became leader, yet I had a very difficult decision to make, do I vote against them? I won't tell you how I voted, but I did not at all feel comfortable voting for them. CBC had Christy Clark on, she said the federal government has been NDP for the last 4 years, running under the guise of Liberals. I agree, and Trudeau's rhetoric this election was even worse.