Canadian federal election - 2015

[Hatman 🍁]

No, it's not, because the NDP is technically the same party in every province. There's lots of Liberals in the Sask Party, that's where Liberals are supposed to go if they don't want to stick with the actual Liberals.

[MaxQue]

Another turncoat,  great.

To be fair, it was the Saskatchewan NDP. Who else is a Liberal going to work for That's almost like calling Mulcair a turncoat.

Well, someone like Romanow was close of Chrétien. He would be a a Liberal in other provinces. And the Saskatchewan Party shouldn't reject them. If they push everyone to Sask Party, no wonder they are in such a poor shape.

For the record, I support creating separate provincial and federal parties.

[DC Al Fine]

No, it's not, because the NDP is technically the same party in every province. There's lots of Liberals in the Sask Party, that's where Liberals are supposed to go if they don't want to stick with the actual Liberals.

You sound like a certain kind of Reformer circa 1998

[Hatman 🍁]

The Ottawa South NDP (no, I didn't attend) nominated former Tory George Brown to be their candidate last night, defeating Prosper M'Bemba-Meka, who was the NDP's candidate in Ottawa-Orleans in the 2014 provincial election. Brown ran for the Tory nomination in 2008, losing to Elie Salibi.

The Greens nominated John Redins a few weeks ago. Redins ran twice here for the Party of People with Special Needs (2014 provincial, 2013 provincial by-election) and also ran for city council (I even voted for him!). He's a nice guy; he talks to me on Twitter from time to time.

While Pundit's Guide doesn't it show it yet, the Conservatives have already nominated Dev Balkissoon. I don't know much about him, yet.

And of course, the Liberals have nominated the incumbent, David McGuinty.

Also, there will be a Libertarian running, grocery store department manager (and of course, a youngish White male!), Damien Wilson.


There was also and NDP nomination in Bourassa, QC yesterday. Dolmine Laguerre won in a a contested race. She will be running against the Liberal incumbent, Emmanuel Dubourg.


Today is the Liberal nomination in the riding of Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, QC. It is a contested race between 2008 Conservative candidate Rene Vincelette and his opponent, Luc Rainville. The NDP candidate there is Brigitte Sansoucy who has run there twice before. The current NDP incumbent will not be running again.

[136or142]

Two days before the Liberal nomination in my neighbouring riding of Richmond Centre and I still have no idea who the candidate(s) are.

[136or142]

Another turncoat,  great.

He was a New Democrat 20 years ago.

[136or142]

Two days before the Liberal nomination in my neighbouring riding of Richmond Centre and I still have no idea who the candidate(s) are.

Lawrence Woo will be acclaimed as the Liberal nominee tomorrow.

Lawrence Woo, Chartered Accountant and Treasurer and Vice Chair Institute of Chartered Accountants of B.C, Chair of SUCCESS Foundation Endowment Committee, Weekly Radio Talk Show Co-Host, Business In Vancouver Newspaper Editorial Board Member

[Hatman 🍁]

Yesterday: Rene Vincelette won the Liberal nomination in Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, QC
Today:
- Perennial candidate David Carter Laird will be the NDP candidate in Burlington, ON. Trade and investment specialist Karina Gould is the Liberal candidate and incumbent Mike Wallace is the Conservative candidate
-Pamela Downward will be the NDP candidate in the new riding of Pickering-Uxbridge, ON. Jennifer O'Connell is the Liberal candidate and Corneliu Chisu is the Tory incumbent.
-Lawyer Chris Bittle will be the Liberal candidate in St. Catharines, ON. He joins Tory incumbent Rick Dykstra on the ballot.
-Lawyer Jodi Wyman will be the Liberal candidate in Bandon-Souis, MB. Incumbent Larry Maguire is the Conservative candidate. The Greens will be running David Neufeld again after he ran in the 2013 by-election.

[DC Al Fine]

The South Shore-St. Margaret's Tories are having their nomination meeting soon. There are three candidates, including one whom I actually know IRL.

Richard Clark: Used to run the Halifax Universities Conservative Association. Now a staffer in Ottawa. Know him semi-well.

Kerry Morash: Former MLA for Queens. He was defeated in 2006, 2009 and failed to win the nomination in 2013.

Rick Perkins: Long time activist in the local organization and former staffer to Mulroney-era MP, Peter McCreath.

My money is on Perkins.

[Hatman 🍁]

Today:
-Former Lorraine city councillor Ramez Ayoub will be the Liberal candidate in Therese-De Blainville, QC. Marc-Aurele-Fortin incumbent Alain Gigure will be running for the NDP and Hotel President Manuel Puga will be the Conservative candidate.
-Steven Kou emerged as the only candidate in a botched nomination for the Liberals in Vancouver Kingsway. They will not reveal who he is until after he has been nominated. The NDP's Don Davies is the incumbent and will be running again, while paralegal Jojo Quimpo will be the Cosnervative candidate.

[136or142]

Today:
-Former Lorraine city councillor Ramez Ayoub will be the Liberal candidate in Therese-De Blainville, QC. Marc-Aurele-Fortin incumbent Alain Gigure will be running for the NDP and Hotel President Manuel Puga will be the Conservative candidate.
-Steven Kou emerged as the only candidate in a botched nomination for the Liberals in Vancouver Kingsway. They will not reveal who he is until after he has been nominated. The NDP's Don Davies is the incumbent and will be running again, while paralegal Jojo Quimpo will be the Cosnervative candidate.

In Vancouver-Kingsway, John Arthur Bolduc apparently dropped out for the nomination race some time ago.  Was Mary Pynenburg forced out to make way for Steven Kou or was she pressured to step down because some new information came out as to why she left her position as city planner in some interior community?  Or is it neither?

One poster on the Georgia Straight said that Steven Kou was a 'one percenter' , so he's likely this guy:
Steven Kou

President
Ekon Wealth Management Inc.
In 2010, summarizing and organizing his nearly-ten-year experience in the financial area, Mr. Kou wrote the first set of Chinese tax books in Canada. In a simple and easy-to-understand manner, the book discussed in detail all aspects of the Canadian tax law on immigration, house purchase, personal tax, establishing commerce and investment. In the same year, he was employed by Bank of Montreal (BMO) with a high salary to BMO's senior management team and became one of the executive directors of BMO and the first Chinese person in British Columbia assuming this duty so far. In order to concentrate on providing services for the Chinese immigrants in Canada better and comprehensively, he resigned from BMO at the end of 2011 and created his own company "Ekon Wealth Management Inc".

[Hatman 🍁]

Here's your weekend nomination wrap up:

-In the new riding of Long Range Mountains, NL (west coast), businesswoman Gudie Hutchings won the Liberal nomination against Mark Watton.

-Lawyer René Arsenault was acclaimed as the Liberal candidate in Madawaska-Restigouche, NB (NW corner). He'll take on the Conservative incumbent, Bernard Valcourt.

-Former ambassador to Ukraine Daniel Caron was acclaimed as the NDP candidate in Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC (NW Quebec City). The NDP incumbent, Alexandrine Latendresse is retiring. Corporate services manager Youri Rousseau will be the Liberal candidate.

-IT technician Normand Laurin will be the NDP candidate in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, ON (east of Ottawa). The Liberal candidate is Francis Drouin and the Tory incumbent is Pierre Lemieux.

-Farmer Glenn Arthur Wright won the NDP nomination in the new riding of Carlton Trail-Eagle Creek, SK (rural Saskatoon). He'll be running against Conservative MP Kelly Block.

-Professor Glen Allan will be the Liberal candidate in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner, AB (SE corner of Alberta). The Green candidate there is engineer Brent Smith and the Conservative candidate is MP Jim Hillyer, who is moving over from Lethbridge riding.

- Former MP Yves Lessard will be the BQ candidate in Beloeil-Chambly, QC (east of Montreal). He joins Liberal candidate and property appraiser Karine Desjardins and incumbent NDP MP Mathew Dube on the ballot.

- In next door Montarville, QC, the BQ nominated lecturer Catherine Fournier as their candidate. The NDP is running their incumbent, Djaouida Sellah, the Liberals are running author Michel Picard and the Tories are running lawyer Stephane Duranleau.

- Former Cranbrook mayor Wayne Stetski will be the NDP candidate in Kootenay-Columbia, BC (southeast corner of BC). He'll take on Conservative MP David Wilks and the Green's 2011 candidate there, Bill Green.

[RogueBeaver]

Good riddance: Andrews and Pacetti will not be readmitted to caucus after the internal investigation found more complaints from other women. Pacetti will retire, Andrews get thumped as an Indie.

[Poirot]

The Conservative candidate for Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Soeurs (is this a record for hyphens in a riding name) will be Steve Shanahan. He is city councillor for the Peter McGill district. He was elected with the party of Mélanie Joly.

[DL]

The Conservative candidate for Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Soeurs (is this a record for hyphens in a riding name) will be Steve Shanahan. He is city councillor for the Peter McGill district. He was elected with the party of Mélanie Joly.

There is ZERO chance that a Conservative could win in that riding but the more votes he gets the more it takes votes from the Liberals and helps the NDP - especially if the NDP nominates Allison Turner and ditches incumbent Tyrone Benskin

[Poirot]

Weekend nomination roundup:

* Former MP Bernard Genereux will be the Conservative candidate in Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC.  The Liberal candidate will be financial security advisor Marie-Josée Normand. The NDP currently holds this seat.

Just to add some bio. Normand was an actress and is the daughter of Gilbert Normand. He was MP for the riding Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet from 1997 to 2004 for the LPC and mayor of Montmagny some time before that period.

[RogueBeaver]

More coop talk, but Grits say non-starter because of Clarity Act & related issues.

[DL]

The Clarity Act is totally bogus as a rationale for refusing to cooperate...there is no Quebec referendum on the horizon and amending the act is a very low low priority for the NDP and everyone knows it...that would be one of the easiest things to negotiate. A bigger roadblock to an NDP Liberal accord is that the NDP wants a national child care program and the Liberals don't want one.

[RogueBeaver]

Pierre Jacob retiring for health reasons.

[Hatman 🍁]

L+1

[VPH]

So, I kinda follow Canadian politics but not terribly in depth, but I realized that there's a LOT of party switching. I take it this is due to more inter-party ideological similarity and more fluidity than the US, correct?

[136or142]

Outside of the NDP in Quebec, all of whose M.Ps were new (except for Mulcair and former Liberal M.P Francoise Boivin) there has been hardly any switching.

[cp]

So, I kinda follow Canadian politics but not terribly in depth, but I realized that there's a LOT of party switching. I take it this is due to more inter-party ideological similarity and more fluidity than the US, correct?

That's as good as any single explanation is. The multiparty nature of Canadian politics also facilitates greater flexibility, as opposed to the zero-sum game of the US two-party system. You could also make an argument for Canadian politics being more volatile - or, rather, prone to more volatile shifts - than the US. Nothing like the Orange Wave in 2011, the deterioration of the Liberal Party in the 00s, or the split/recreation of the rightist parties in the 90s has happened in the US.

Truth be told, I'm not sure that party switching is terribly more common in Canada than in the US, or that when it happens it's for very different reasons. Craven political opportunism, individual policy stands, and intraparty power struggles seem to motivate politicians on both sides of the border.

[DL]

Pierre Jacob retiring for health reasons.

Jacob was very old and low profile. The NDP likely has a far better chance of holding Brome-Mississquoi with a new higher profile candidate than if he tried to run again. Its all good. Apparently one of the people running for the nomination is Yves Mondoux who is a local TV personality/columnist

[Hatman 🍁]

Depending on how popular the Liberals are in Quebec on election Day, Brome-Missisquoi would be one of their more likely pick ups.