London North Centre by-election

[RBH]

Who says that BQ-Yukon needs resources?

Well, you do have to pay to run as a candidate. (to get on the ballot). That money can be best spent elsewhere.

ok then, time to form a Yukon Separtist Party

[Hatman 🍁]

For once, other parties are spoling an election for the Greens.

Ya know what, how about a BQ Wing in British Columbia or Alberta? That would be a unique idea.

The Quebec Party of Alberta.

Waste of resources. Actually, this reminds me a story of an American friend of mine who asked the BQ leader Gilles Duceppe about expanding his party outside of Quebec. I forget what he said his reaction was... Anyways, it's the equivelant of PC or the SNP running in the rest of Great Britain.

I could see the BQ expanding to Francophone areas outside Quebec if it had a vision of a Greater Quebec.

Francophones outside of Quebec are not Quebecois. They are different.  The BQ would not appeal to them. FTR, the largest French Canadian groups outside of Quebec are the Acadians in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and the Franco-Ontarians in northeastern Ontario and eastern Ontario.

[minionofmidas]

Let's form the BA! Acadiens aussi sont une nation, n'est-ce pas?

Re Alberta... I once asked an Albertan bus driver called Maurice Lefleur if he was a Franco-Canadian. I think he found that mildly insulting.
 

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Let's form the BA! Acadiens aussi sont une nation, n'est-ce pas?

Why do that when they can just vote for Godin? (yeah, it's only one riding o/c).

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Interesting result in the election though. Bad news for all three major parties (although a bright spot for the Liberals is that they held the seat).
The Tory candidate was a popular mayor of London, btw.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The Greens finishing second.. can only be good news. I'm quite fond of the Canadian Green Party actually.

[Hatman 🍁]

Let's form the BA! Acadiens aussi sont une nation, n'est-ce pas?

Oui, je pense ca.

The Greens finishing second.. can only be good news. I'm quite fond of the Canadian Green Party actually.

Ick. I can see why a Libertarian might like them though.

[Verily]

They aren't so libertarian any more, I thought. Harris was the real economic rightist; May is more economically centrist. (In fact, after the UK's Lib Dems, they're the party closest to my political views I've ever found.)