Canada rejects Trump wannabe. Trudeau projected as the winner in today's national elections

[iluvtennis]

Rick Powers
@ricdanpow
Canada rejects Trump wannabe. Trudeau projected as the winner in today’s national elections. America take a note.

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[CanonRay]

1. Yea!

[applegrove]

2. Trump wannabe Scheer went way out of his way not to appear Trump-like

but canadians didn't trust him. And we see the news in the US. So they were about 5 points apart in the total vote right now. We are lucky. It looks like people on the left and center-left voted strategically.

Updated: total vote update says Liberals and Conservatives are one point apart. With first past the post voting, the winner gets so many more seats: the Liberals 30 more seats than the Conservatives so far.

New update: 33.8% for the Liberals, 33.9% for the Conservatives but the liberals win way more seats.

[Cha]

6. So Happy for you and Canada, apple

[applegrove]

7. Thank you Cha. It is a great relief. I was in my dad's nursing home room watching but

was on the way home when they called it.

[Cha]

8. How exciting for you.. that it

turned out so brilliant!

[applegrove]

9. Merci Cha!

[Bev54]

21. Not brilliant

A majority liberal government would be brilliant but I am just happy it is not conservative. I will take this

[RhodeIslandOne]

16. Unfortunately there are those who think "Hiding Doug Ford" was why they lost.

It's Ford who's the Trump of Canada honestly.

[Bev54]

22. Hahaha

If they brought Ford out into the open more perhaps the liberals would have won a majority. Let's face it, the conservatives only have a hold in the oil and gas when they do not even realize that it is only the Liberals that have tried to get the pipelines to get their oil to market. The conservatives never did a damn thing for them.

[applegrove]

27. Albertan's didn't like Scheer. Conservatives were mumbling about who would replace him

before the election was over.

[redqueen]

3. So glad to hear this!

[Cha]

4. Haha.. Go Canada!

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Trump women approve.

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Adelante]

10. Good on Canada

[blogslut]

11. Good news!

I'm glad. No leader is perfect but that other guy was not good.

[notinkansas]

12. Congratulations, Canada!

A ray of hope in a troubled world.

[Matilda]

13. Great news, Canada!

Coming from a country with a RW loon in the top job, you are very fortunate to have sanity prevail.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

14. KR NT

[ancianita]

15. Whew. Good for Canada! We look to you for hope and good sense. Onward!

[James48]

17. Too early!!

But liberals have LOST many seats, and don’t have enough to form a government without making a deal to get to the needed number of seats.

Patience- while an attempt to form a minority coalition takes place.

[Disaffected]

18. Not an Andrew Scheer fan but,

calling him a Trump wannabe is pretty silly.

Who in their right mind would want to be a Trump wannabe anyhow??

[Bev54]

24. I think it is an apt description

He may not be as stupid as Trump but many of his worst policies are the same

[napi21]

19. All they had to do is take a quick look at the US to know they didn't want anyone like DT!

I'm so glad they did as well. We don't need some other JA to join with our JA in such close proximity!

[Sluggy77]

23. Polls were dead on...

Hi - long-time lurker and proud Canadian here. Relatively stoked about tonight’s Canadian election - thoughts up here are roughly the same as what’s been expressed in the comments on this thread. Trudeau has had a terrible year but the attack politics and “wanna-be Repub” style of the Conservatives was totally off-setting.

Wanted to point out that the polls before tonight’s election were spot-on... almost down to the percentage. Polls up here aren’t any different from down in the States - they aren’t better run or anything.

Difference is that our elections are still conducted with paper and pencil and leave a paper trail that can be verifiably counted. Very difficult to magically change results to differ from the polls if the elections aren’t being run on mysterious electronic boxes, if you know what I mean.

Granted I’m a Canuck and there’s a lot about Americans I don’t understand.. also I know I’m speaking to the choir here... but the willingness of the USA to sacrifice their election security and remove paper trails from the process has boggled my mind for a really long time...

Anyways - hope you don’t mind my first post being so long... Cheers everyone. It was overall a good result for Canada tonight. Yay!

[Bev54]

26. Well said!

[PatrickforO]

29. We have to harden our elections for sure. nt

[AllyCat]

31. Welcome to DU and congratulations!

Wish we had paper and pencil elections. Amazing how you do...and somehow still have results the same night. I’ve been told that is why we need machines. Pencil and paper would just “take too long”

[gopiscrap]

32. welcome to DU

[Matilda]

25. And one in the eye for Trump.

He will be sooooo mad ...

[dalton99a]

28. .

Link to tweet

[WePurrsevere]

30. Pretty sure this wasn't written by Trump...

It's coherent and the use of a word like "betterment" give it away.

Since the tone is warm & rather friendly for not being said to a dictator or fellow Con, I'm going to guess it was a Trudeau admirer, perhaps Ivanka, who actually wrote it.