Canadian by-elections, 2015

[Holmes]

I can see a First Nations candidate in Northern Ontario facing voter discrimination, much more than a candidate in Southern Ontario.

[Holmes]

Thibeault will probably squeak through.

[Holmes]

A Thibeault win now would just be awful.

Canadian politics in is generally awful so you know what to expect.

[Holmes]

Yeeeeaah, the Liberals can get away with anything in this province and even get rewarded for it. They might as well start assassinating their enemies and taking money directly from people's pockets on live TV at this point, then their majority will probably grow larger.

[Holmes]

I like how some people seriously think that some seats in downtown Toronto are so important that Horwatch should step down, as if they're more important than Whitby-Oshawa, or Niagara, or Kitchener-Waterloo, or London West. Obviously the NDP needs to be able to do well in Toronto to win government, but the province outside of Toronto is also very important and Horwath has performed well there. And don't forget that Marchese was on his way out anyway, and it was a miracle that he even held on in 2011.

Singh would be an awesome leader, I think. But his ethnicity would be toxic in northern Ontario.

[Holmes]

That makes sense. A by-election after an NDP majority that has no real effect on anything would lead to a WRP victory in this kind of riding. A respectable NDP showing regardless.

[Holmes]

Good turnout for a by-election.

[Holmes]

That soft BC NDP supporter is just concern trolling. The election campaign is years from now, it's too early to make any type of prediction, and that includes the predictions of Clark's "inevitable demise".

[Holmes]

You're feisty. I live in California. I used to live in Northern Ontario but I moved to California to marry my husband.

I'm basically saying what the last sentence in your post says, the election is in 2017 so there's no point in predicting it one way or the other. I think I can say that even if I don't live in BC. No need to be hostile.

[Holmes]

Well considering Wynne's numbers are in the tank with selling off some of Hydro One and the teachers unions shenanigans, it'll be an easy test for Brown. The real question is, who will come in second?

[Holmes]

Well considering Wynne's numbers are in the tank with selling off some of Hydro One and the teachers unions shenanigans, it'll be an easy test for Brown. The real question is, who will come in second?

It won't be the NDP, if that's what you're asking. It's Whitby.

I'm saying the PC should easily win this by-election, but what's more interesting is who will come in second.

[Holmes]

You guys should just open a new thread for the next BC election.