Woo!
Now to get rid of the christofascists in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Then Doug fucking Ford in Ontario.
For anyone else that doesn’t follow Manitoban politics, the Cons have been in power since 2016 (before that, NDP).
As mentioned, I don’t know much about the parties in Manitoba, but as a general fan of the NDP’s platforms, this sounds like good news to me.
Well, there is the Keystone Party which is Manitoba only. Their platform when they started during the pandemic was against medical mandates, lock-downs, and Human rights Tribunals.
It would be funny if they didn’t get like 5% of the vote in some areas.
well, they were at about 5% when I stopped watching the live votes. The number could’ve changed afterwards.This year they ran on:
- Carbon taxes are bad
- sex ed is bad
- Reduce PST
- Privatizing healthcare is good
- Abattoir regulations
- Trying to turn MB into a tourist economy, but also tax cuts for farms because the backbone of the economy, but also focus on being a factory-based economy, but also focus on independent trades. (It’s almost as if they are casting a wide net)
- Adding jails and crown attorneys to speed up the court system (but not legal aid or defense attorneys, so it won’t actually make anything faster, because you need 2 to tango)
wow, with a platform like that, im SHOCKED they lost. :p
88 to 99 conservatives, 99 to 16 NDP, 16 to 23 conservatives, since 58 the conservatives have won more elections (10 vs 8) and have spent more time in power (37 years vs 30 years using rough numbers)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Manitoba_general_elections
The reality is that the vast majority of Candians are socially progressive. On every issue from abortion to gun control to LGBTQ rights to social programs Candians lean left to hard left. As these right wing parties swing harder and harder right they appeal to a smaller and smaller extreme voting block. At some point they squeeze themselves out. Especially, like in Ontario, when it becomes so absolutely and undeniably obvious that all of Doug Ford’s talk of helping the little guy is just a series of schemes to enrich a small group of his wealthy developer friends/donors and when the social policies in places like Alberskatchetoba become so obviously about christofascist virtue signaling at the expense of extremely vulnerable children to appeal to fanatical extremists.
What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)
Is that too much to ask for?
What Canada needs is socially progressive leadership that is not corrupt, that makes corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share (not everything, not a lot more, but their fair share), that reaoects workers and parents and everyone’s rights, and that is fiscally responsible (not cutting revenue by cutting taxes on the wealthy and cutting programs that we have already paid for for everyone else to pay for it but trying to run the country/province within our means as much as possible while still truly caring for the ALL of the people, not just the wealthy.)
You’d have to go back to the 50’s/60’s to find a party that lived and breathed those ethics. Think Tommy Douglas, the CCF and early NDP.
Well seeing as one side is desperate to go back to the 50s/60s as far as rights are concerned, why not give them a taste of their own medicine and bring the tax policies back too?
Congratulations 🎉 !
Thank gawd the Cons are out.
I’m hoping Waub can keep his promises to try and fix/help our healthcare. Hell, I’d even be good with an increase to our prov sales tax to get it restarted.
Conheads in shambles
How’s the Manitoba NDP in policy direction? Center-left, left, very left? I know there can be significant differences between provincial parties by the same name. E.g. the BC Liberals are a bit like Ontario’s PCs.
Kinew has said he wants the party to be closer to centrist. I don’t agree, but whatever.
Same as Alberta’s NDP; makes sense based on the political spectrum in the prairies.
Alberta NDP was more like a Liberal party on the left-right spectrum, imho.
Well said, OP. So glad to see a backlash against alt-right social wedge issues spreading broadly across Canada (and maybe the US if special election results can be trusted).
There was a larger turn out at most counter protest against the anti-SOGI bigots a couple weeks ago.
Hopefully, we don’t see any backsliding federally with Trudeau’s personal lack of popularity giving any inroads to Christofascists in the CPC.
We need to get Millennials and Zoomers to vote. We outnumber the Boomers, finally, so let’s show up at the polls and move the country in a more progressive direction!
Hopefully, we don’t see any backsliding federally with Trudeau’s personal lack of popularity giving any inroads to Christofascists in the CPC.
It’s hard to be optimistic here. I’d like to be. They don’t even need to court the christofascists right now. That protest seemed to be rather integrated with the PPC, so maybe they still have enough steam to split the right vote a bit.
Good win by Wab Knew.
I’m very happy the PCs lost a few key asshole members, especially in my riding :)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba’s first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government, CBC projects.
PC incumbent cabinet ministers Rochelle Squires and James Teitsma will lose their seats in Riel and Radisson, respectively, the CBC projects.
Tom Lindsey (Flin Flon) and Eric Redhead (Thompson) in the north, and Adrien Sala (St. James), Lisa Naylor (Wolseley), Nahanni Fontaine (St. Johns), Uzoma Asagwara (Union Station), Mintu Sandhu (The Maples), Matt Wiebe (Concordia), Bernadette Smith (Point Douglas), Malaya Marcelino (Notre Dame), Jelynn Dela Cruz (Radisson), Jim Maloway (Elmwood) and Mike Moyes (Riel) have also scored victories for the NDP in Winnipeg, CBC News projects.
Trevor King will take Lakeside and Kelvin Goertzen will hold onto Steinbach for the PCs, while Josh Guenter will win Borderland for the party, CBC News projects.
Doyle Piwniuk also is holding onto his seat for the PCs in Turtle Mountain, and Jodie Byram will win the Agassiz riding, the CBC projects.
“We know it’s going to be a tough battle, but we’ve done the work,” he said at the PC election night headquarters at the Canad Inns Fort Garry location on Pembina Highway.
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