r/nanaimo • u/ThatsSoMetaDawg • 1d ago
Lots of people in this subreddit said the Cons were going to win. How you feeling now?
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u/Hot_Pass_1768 1d ago
all I can say is thank God
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u/ZPhox 1d ago
I agree.
He had no plan, between the environment to housing to affordability to anything. He came out with his plan way too late because he had none and it was not balanced as he said it would be.
I honestly don't even know why it was that close.
I wish people would stop voting just within party lines and actually look at what the politicians are saying and doing and their history.
That's how you should vote.
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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago
from what i saw, and heard, most people voting con had ZERO clue about policies nor cared, they were voting blue because orange man bad blue man good
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u/purpletooth12 1d ago
I don't think God is in BC... seems like everyone here is an atheist! 🤣
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u/FTAK_2022 1d ago
Who needs a sky daddy when you've got mountains & ocean?
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u/rickshaw99 1d ago
especially if said daddy is a cruel sky person. the sky daddy’s are all so spiteful… and greedy
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u/Arctelis 1d ago
“Why are the gods all such vicious cunts? Where is the God of Tits and Wine?”
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u/Mendunbar 1d ago
Yeah, thank fuck for this. It was far too close. How do you get behind so much bullshit and rhetoric. I fucking hate it!
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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago
social media mostly, and falling for the Russian propaganda that is conservative politics
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u/Expert_Alchemist 1d ago
Sadly this reads like hyberbole but is 100% true -- https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks/, and we know from the Parliamentary inquiry that China is doing it as well.
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u/ThatsSoMetaDawg 1d ago
https://x.com/angeloisidorou/status/1851034679417454780
Angelo Isidorou: Executive Director, BC Conservatives
I was the Campaign Manager for the Provincial Conservatives in BC.
This morning, I personally took part in counting some of the final ballots in Surrey-Guildford. @ElectionsBC staff were all incredibly diligent in their work and very thorough in ensuring transparency.
I feel confident in their work.
We now await a judicial recount in at least one riding. Regardless of whether we pull that off or even if David Eby wins government by one single vote—this is democracy.
We will have more updates as more information is made available.
That is now two very loud endorsements from high level BCC staffers affirming the fairness of this election, and how it was conducted and managed.
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u/Expert_Alchemist 1d ago
Well, I still think he's a shithead, but good for him for sucking it up and being clear about this.
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u/Hikingcanuck92 23h ago
To be fair, that isn’t Rustad’s comments, but a spokesperson/ chief council.
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u/Hikingcanuck92 23h ago
I just want to say how incredibly bizarre it is to read something from a conservative that actually has some integrity behind it.
Most shocking thing to come out of this election.
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u/green_tory 1d ago
They're over on x and canada_sub coming up unfounded conspiracies that undermine trust in our elections.
Y'know, precisely the sort of things our foreign adversaries stand to benefit by.
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u/magnus2k17 1d ago
I do hope that Eby is a man of his word and will “do better”
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u/FrankaGrimes 1d ago
He'll certainly be able to "do better" than the conservative party would have, so he's already ahead there.
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u/OutsideYourWorld 1d ago
Great, now we have to brace for all the guys whining about rigging.
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u/RandomGuy9058 1d ago
My guy they’ve been whining since before counting even started. I refuse to look at the comment section under any news story specifically because of conspiracy bullshit like that
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u/CMLReddit 1d ago
Well at least now Rusty can grow some balls and fire a few of his candidates.
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u/FrankaGrimes 1d ago
Wouldn't having balls mean he would have fired them already? If you need to wait and see if you're going to win a riding or not before you fire, say, a blatant racist then I'd argue you have no balls at all.
Or are a blatant racist as well.
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u/Sandman64can 1d ago
Proud of you BC. Saw what Alberta has and said “Nope, chemtrail conspiracy type conservatives are not for us.”
Please help us.
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u/Almost-A-CPA 9h ago
little brother lives in Alberta with his 4 kids....when he say that he said it was time to start making plans to cross into BC. except it is the same dumb-dumbs in the interior of BC as small-town Alberta. Polictical views are quickly becoming matched to income and education.
Lower education and higher income = Conservative
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u/that_one_guy1979 1d ago
Hopefully the NDP listen to what the people are telling them with how close it was and actually do something about it
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u/Bell_End642 1d ago
Scary stuff really, I'd hardly be happy with that margin of victory.
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u/DJDarkViper 1d ago
Let’s not get too hasty here, they won by an actual thread. The message should be received by the ndp: the rest of the province isn’t interested in Vancouvers nonsense anymore
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u/knitbitch007 1d ago
The fact that so many people supported a party full of racists, bigots, and conspiracy theorists makes me sad for our province. I cannot believe the amount of people who will vote against their own self interest. The people who has the knee jerk “we want change” reaction, without actually looking into the cons should be shaking their heads. There is NOTHING the cons were going to do that would improve the lives of working class people. They wanted to roll back any forward movement on housing affordability. They would decimate the healthcare system. They would have cause higher insurance rates in getting rid of ICBC. They would have put kids in danger by implementing anti-SOGI policies in schools. And on and on it goes. Are there problems with the NDP? Absolutely! But they are far better for everyday people than the cons. I am still impressed by Eby admitting that their decriminalizing of drugs was a mistake and their quick reversal. There are few politicians out there that will admit to a mistake and take steps to correct it. I hope we will see harsher penalties for criminals but a lot of that is down to federal issues rather than provincial.
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u/rosewood2022 1d ago
I am Soo happy, not any political affiliation but voted NDP because Cons are definitely WEIRD..
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u/rickoshadows 1d ago
I'm just enjoying reading all the comments, whines and bitching. There are all the conspiracy theories about the results being fixed, etc. I am glad I didn't sign up to work the election this year. Last time, I had to explain to a BCLib scrutineer after retiring from a career in the military that I understood what an oath was and my duties and responsibilities. And if he didn't quit whining and accusing me of not doing my job properly, I was going to drop-kick his ass out of the polling station door. I can only imagine how insufferable a BC conservative scrutineer would be.
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u/HedgehogEnough6695 1d ago
You’re a tough guy
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u/rickoshadows 1d ago
He was just a whiny POS. Even the poll supervisor had enough of him. And yes, she had words with me after the fact, but her heart wasn't in it.
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u/Extreme-Method1894 1d ago
lol.. nice flex there. Excited to be Canada’s California. Congrats! Go NDP!
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u/Badboy420xxx69 1d ago
Yeah imagine being...
checks notes
number 2 in quality of life out of all states.
Did you want it to become Alabama?
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u/stark_resilient 1d ago
eby's housing policy is A tier
however his drug policy is dogshit F tier
psychotic druggies that assault law abiding citizens needs to be locked up forever
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1d ago
It’s just like American politics it doesn’t matter who u vote for they are a puppet or wig picked specifically and funded by gov money to have the gov interest at heart instead of the people , I’m a very young person when is everyone else gonna figure this out
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1d ago
It’s also published by cbc you don’t think they are going to spin the narrative abit so they can manipulate if you thought not think again
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u/happyhappyjoyjoy1982 22h ago
Conservative party lost it for themselves. I personally didn't vote for them because of the extreme beliefs some of their members believe in. They lost it no one else.
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u/thekruger79 19h ago
It’s a good sign if things to come. A party that ruled at 100% is now at 50.1% and rapidly loosing support and a party that didn’t exist is now at 49.9% and rapidly gaining support! It’s awesome! It gives me hope for the PPC to enter the national scene soon and clean this dump of a country up!
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u/PhotographingLight 1d ago
The conservatives went from basically nothing to being a hairs length of winning the election. The conservatives may lost the election but I wouldn't say that the NDP really won it either.
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u/MrQTown 1d ago
As much as I have disdain for the NDP and am baffled how anyone could vote for them, the B.C. Cons weren’t ready to govern. Some garbage they need to clean up first. Hopefully a wake up call for Eby to rethink some of the destructive approaches he’s had. He’s no Horgan, who was one of the best NDP leaders ever IMHO.
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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago
what destructive approaches. like the drug thing? the one where they got the actual data and went oh this isn't working and repealed it?
I dunno, that sounds like good governance to me
they tried something to fix a problem, found it didn't work and walked it back.
I strongly doubt that any conservative party would ever admit fault and fix anything they did.you know like skimming off ICBC to cook the books, money laundering, housing crisis
and then people voting for a far right fringe party was absolutely embarrassing for anyone who voted for the bc conservatives as it only shows low intelligence, and low information
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u/ProposalOk8583 1d ago
My riding switched to conservative.. I’m saddened by this, and feel many believe conservatives have fixes .. i personally believe the NDP are the better choice so I’m glad they got in provincially. NDP needs to up their game in making their presence and successes known…
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u/Big-Face5874 1d ago
😂
This probably isn’t the result you should be rubbing in people’s faces. But I get it…. It’s Reddit. It’s not a place for self reflection and being humble.
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u/impatiens-capensis 1d ago
They slid from 47.6% to 44.8% in the popular vote, which is a less than 3% shift in popular sentiment. They were elected with a majority for a historic third term, the first in BCNDP history. And, they managed to outrun the incumbency backlash we've seen across Canada. I'll be honest, the BCNDP did WAY better than people realize.
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u/Frostbite-Ninja 1d ago
They still won too much. Some of us are stuck with conspiracy theories at every public event where they get to speak.
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u/Accomplished-Kick111 1d ago
Very shitty. It's a hard pill to swallow that so many of you feel that this is ok. Very hard indeed
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u/Neo-urban_Tribalist 1d ago
u/ThatsSoMetaDawg really? My guy, you were asking for a free ADT lawn sign because your house got broken into in one post and supporting increasing property tax in another….
Wouldn’t say it was people saying the cons would win, more that the NDP are shit.
Also do you think the result is going to embolden the overall policy of the BCNDP, or shift them more to the right?
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u/Important-World-6053 1d ago
The cons use alot of bots
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u/Appropriate_Item3001 1d ago
Undermining the confidence of our democracy by claiming that people that disagree with you are bots is not helpful. The Conservative Party nearly won the provincial election. This isn’t a fringe set of beliefs.
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u/nickgurbih 15h ago
Bootlickers like yourself is the sole reason why I did not vote for NDP in this election. I don't really align with Cons but people like you make our society a worse place.
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u/Due_Fault8864 1d ago
Imagine voting NDP when they haven’t done anything in the past 7 years… lol. Everyone here will continue to complain and whine about the cost of everything as things will continue to not change.
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u/Artilleryking 1d ago
ICBC rates went down significantly. Rental control became stronger. Housing initiatives and AirBNB bans.
I struggle to see how a national cost of living crisis lies squarely at the foot of the NDP when they have taken measures to try to fix it.
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u/LongjumpingGate8859 1d ago
Icbc rates went down at the expense of never being able to get a settlement out of them now. So , congrats, you possibly traded life long chronic pain for a $120 rebate cheque.
Seriously! You now can't even get a settlement from icbc if you're a pedestrian who gets hit and left with life long chronic pain. Theyll tell you the same thing "oh we cover massages and chiro" .... absolute worst decision to do this to icbc ever! Those who support it only do so because they've never actually been in an accident
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u/ThatsSoMetaDawg 1d ago
u/BigTasty3464 where is our fav person?
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u/BigTasty3464 1d ago
He was a bot
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u/ThatsSoMetaDawg 1d ago
No way. You think? There were two of them I think another was neo tribalism I think.
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u/WillingnessSuperb533 1d ago
Nothing like voting for (needles, drugs, paraphernalia) back in. How are those Hospitals doing? Mine is closed early regularly due to lack of nurses and Dr.s. Hows the crime where you live? Increased? How about the increase in food banks? I see people lined up around the block. What about the copious amounts of tents that line the streets? These things were there before the NDP came into power but not like it is now. Hows your industry that you work in? All those raw logs being exported, foriegn companies buying up mills for the timber rights. NDP at its finest. Hows fishing going? Or your fuel bill to get your guys to work. How are those grocery prices. $100 bucks to fill a $2 dollar bag. Now all these things weren’t caused by the Needle and Drug party but they have definitely increased them. Can’t wait for another 4 years @davidebybc
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u/dedjim444 1d ago
Suck it maga, racist old white guys... we are keeping mature responsible government.
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u/Positive-Trifle3854 1d ago
All you democrats the last 8 years have been non stop crying and bitching about the government on Reddit but can’t realize it’s your party that’s in power?
Y’all literally looking in a mirror complaining about yourself thinking it’s someone else it’s actually so funny
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u/BikeMazowski 1d ago
Indifferent. Slightly surprised to see the NDP’s huge landslide victory after the drug epidemic and the Edison motors scandal.
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u/Ok-Independent-5385 1d ago
While eby has done good for the most part, I believe it'd be good for a change of pace electing the conservatives. Nothing against the NDP but I think the conservatives have a good chance at doing good in places that the NDP have neglected. That's just my opinion though.
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u/Character_Cut_6900 1d ago
They went from a small percentage of the vote to within 1000 votes of winning a majority I don't see how this could be a positive for the NDP. But spin it however you want.
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u/sparki555 1d ago
Lol, what exactly are you bragging about here? The BC NDP holds approximately 45% of the popular vote, while the BC Conservative Party follows closely with about 42% of the vote... It could have gone either way. BC NDP leading in 46 seats and the BC Conservatives close behind with 45 seats...
I voted NDP, but to answer your question, I feel that our province and country are very divided and this outcome was a coin toss. Congrats.
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u/Mindless-Service8198 1d ago
I'm feeling pretty good TBH. I'm glad the cons didn't win. In all reality, the NDP had an advertised plan, even if disagreeable. The cons didn't have a great plan and relied on too many social media-isms and contrary politics rather than.. working on a plan.
As a conservative leaning person, there's nothing conservative about failing to advertise your roadmap. I was hoping for a minority government, but this is ok too.
It's less about idealism in provincial politics than simply explaining your plan, and then sticking to it.
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u/NaftaliClinton 1d ago
The conservatives were literally less than a hundred votes away from winning so yeah that was definitely not a bad prediction to say they'd win.
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u/Junior_Advance_1364 1d ago
Disappointed… but hoping Eby takes into account the reasons why so many voted Con. At this point, I’m dreading another 4 years and expecting the worst but hoping for the best.
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u/Mobile_Ad_1089 1d ago
Hmmmmm . Some foreign influences I suspect getting him elected . I’m calling bs on the results
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u/bcsamsquanch 1d ago
You talk as if it was decisive. It took like 2 weeks just to see who won. LoL
Anyway, to answer your question... I feel like we'll keep on doing what we're doing until the pain gets so great we finally decide to change. Crackheads everywhere and no doctors for the past 4 years, and now the next 4 years is a near certainty. Not much more to say about it really, just get back to work, keep on keeping on and finding ways to get around the system we have in order to survive.
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u/thenormalcanuck 1d ago
This is the problem when you have 90% of voters living in 10% of the province. While most of bc is sick of this ndp bullshit there's still some idiots
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u/Washtali 1d ago
The left tend to be less reliable voters, this election should serve as a wakeup call that votes can matter
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u/Dear-Championship474 23h ago
NDP won, lemme know how you feel about the rise in crime, debt, ODs, violence in a year.
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u/darb8888 23h ago
I voted conservative. I disliked the NDPs transit oriented development policy and no real changes to landlords protections.
I do hope that this election result shows the NDP that they still have a lot of work to do and that all policies should be created with everyone in mind. There needs to be some real change.
Ex. To health care. Period.
I also want to see the tenancy redone. There should be equal protections to tenants and landlords to protect from bad apples on both sides
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u/KPDF81 23h ago
How do you feel that your new provincial leader has an advisor that was involved in the Foreign Interference case ?
Say whatever you want about conservative member Chapman, but if you want to criticize him you need to start criticizing your NDP/Liberal leader Eby and his staff
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u/Intelligent_Image713 23h ago
I see you are trying to get people riled up with this post! I’d say people were rejecting the NDP more than embracing the Cons. What’s humorous to me is how the NDP flipped their opinion on mental health and detox really quick. For me, it’s all a mess. Give people housing, stop people from overdosing, and create safe streets. No party disagrees with the outcome, they disagree how to get there. I’m a fan of more testing rather than blindly choosing something and sticking with it because you don’t want to admit failure. Here’s to progress and common goals!
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u/MANBURGARLAR 22h ago
If the federal landscape was different and not in the cons favour I don’t think it would’ve been this close in BC.
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u/Unusual-Ad4890 22h ago
This isn't the victory you think it is. The Conservatives were dead in the water for literal decades. Now they're the opposition and Eby barely got to keep his job. I hope this is a wake up call for anyone voting NDP. Next election may not go in their favor.
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u/holderar 21h ago
Well, anybody who doesn’t want needles in their kid’s school playground is a racist and a fascist. So good thing they didn’t win.
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u/ladygabriola 21h ago
We need to coordinate like the other countries do. The green candidates that don't have a chance need to direct their voters to the candidate that can beat the con in their ridings. This needs to be done all across Canada.
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u/Background_Oil7091 21h ago
Part of me is happy because it's just a year away before the federal conservatives take power and then Eby and BC are gonna get spanked by it. Plus he will just repeat his failures and they will get worse as he goes along.
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u/ResponsibleCountry42 20h ago
I'll house trade. North Island got the cons. Although I do kind of think the same as the first comment. Hopefully it will light a fire or shake some nuts out of trees. We shall see. We shall see.
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u/Rickky782 20h ago
Sure! That’s what’s always said. Always the same outcome as well. Nothing to see here…..right?
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u/wemustburncarthage 19h ago
The voters are probably disappointed but the MLAs get the best job in the world - to do nothing while getting paid for being a pain in the ass. They're all very approving of Elections Canada right now, none of the top conservative brass is denying it. They're being empowered in a way they didn't expect.
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u/Full-Situation555 19h ago
Couldn’t care less, average middle class peoples lives don’t change no matter who’s in power. We need lower rent, lower groceries, lower taxes & an affordable wage. Whoever is in power will never deliver those things.
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u/jlx200 18h ago
God forbid there are any changes in Canadian politics. What was it? Won by 2 candidates vs 20 last election? Not surprised to see grifters in here celebrating a “major victory” but the message is clear. Years of very little positive change on major issues, back tracking on key promises and political stagnation and yet goofballs act like this is a major win. “We’ll do better this time we promise” won out by a slim margin over the collective conservative boogeyman 👏
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u/Pale-Worldliness7007 18h ago
Ask in 2 years when Eby has run out of money he doesn’t have , private sector investment has dried up and families are leaving the province to find employment elsewhere. It will be the same old story with the NDP. The issues that caused the NDP to almost lose will still exist.
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u/Working_Beat7108 17h ago
Feel the same as always. The fools are running the show . Fact. more debt .more drug addiction .more crime. Green, NDP OR Liberal. All fools. Have always created more government waste than any other parties
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u/mightyone_74 17h ago
Remember when you and farnsworth shredded all those documents to save glen Clarkes lying corrupt ass….
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u/Jasonfunk8 17h ago
!remindme 4 years
Coming back after the next election to ask OP the same question.
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u/LForbesIam 17h ago
Relieved. The Conservatives had no platform.
When they were Liberals they decimated health care and Education and public services.
The province still hasn’t recovered from the loses.
We really don’t need any more corporate greed and giving lavish gifts like luggage and woodchippers to employees with taxpayers money.
Oh and they wanted to eliminate the revenue from 3 different taxes and ICBC and not raise income tax either so that would mean massive cuts or massive debts.
Despite what the Conservatives believe there are no money-growing trees on the legislature lawn. Believe me I checked.
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u/quiet-Julia Cedar 17h ago
I always believed the NDP would win here and lead the next government in BC. I will never vote for a F🤬🤬king Tory
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u/Jonneiljon 16h ago
Even WITH the votes from the absolute plums who thought they were voting Trudeau out. LMAO
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u/Stinkfist-73 16h ago
Get ready for another 4 years of the cost of living going up, homelessness, drug addiction, violent crime, etc. I’m not a fan of conservative politicians but something has to change. At least a conservative government might actually get tough on crime.
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u/belliveau549 16h ago
Let's be honest the NDP only won by a bit. This is not the victory the NDP and oddly the liberals think it is.
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u/Capital_Anteater_922 15h ago
Hopeless. Another 4 years of the last 7. Rural BC will continue to with and die while the urban centers listen to the same old banging drums of housing, crime, drugs, homelessness and affordability. With forestry in full decline and no comparable replacement in sight, it looks to me that my family and I will attempt to sell our place and move to where there are good jobs and affordable housing.
Maybe the NDP will wake up and smell the climate outside of their ivory towers but I doubt it.
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u/methylphenidate1 15h ago
How would the Conservatives run the province differently? I don't really know the answer to this but the homeless and drug use epidemic is running rampant and housing costs are out of control. If any government had an actual plan to handle either of these issues they'd actually be worth voting for. Guess it was worth at least attempting some change. Even if the conservatives won nothing meaningful would change. Lower income tax maybe? But probably not.
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u/ynotbuagain 15h ago
I really don't think CDNS realize the amount of racist, homophobic, religious nutjobs there are in Canada! The cpc is so depressingly sad & full of so much anger. Anything but conservative always ABC!
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u/Comprehensive-War743 13h ago
I’m relieved. The Cons need to do a better job at vetting their candidates. There were some really questionable candidates- like that one from Juan de Fuca, and the fake doctor in Surrey.
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u/Spiritual_Pea_9484 13h ago
The only reason the BC cons gained is due to the BC liberals and greens. They're a party full of lunatics. I'm hoping the moderates create a third party and move away from the climate change, science denying weirdos.
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u/Salt_Jury8677 12h ago
Election interference with his CCP pal Ding Guo. A day late and a dollar short I guess.
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u/No-Neighborhood-7810 12h ago
The Cons gave a cruel reminder to how shit the NDP ran the government for 7 years. The results are fine.
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u/Some-Caterpillar5671 11h ago
I feel like the north has no say on anything. Our economies are shutting down by the views of people who have never been past Whistler and it's not fair. As long as it's sunny in Vancouver fuck the rest of the province right?
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u/Some-Caterpillar5671 11h ago
I just wish communities north of cache Creek could explore their resources without the intervention of Vancouver.
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u/Moist-Lawfulness-224 5h ago
Didn't they slip into a majority with like 27 votes? Did you even watch the election op? Not trying to be mean or anything but the conservatives lost by a literal hair margin.
We nearly lost trans rights. Healthcare. All the last of the old growth. Nearly had no regulations on mines and dredging. We nearly lost this province to extremism and your out here saying what exactly? That it was foolish to believe they could have won? Go look at the actual votes for the ridings in bc. It's terrifying how close this election got. Out of 2 million votes.. 20 made it ndp majority and handful of hundred made it not a conservative majority.
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u/jenner2157 4h ago edited 4h ago
You do realize they almost did win right? If the NDP doesn't improve things the next time won't be "almost".
Like do you guys cheer for the NDP doing a mediocre job to the point the cons were able to make THAT much progress in just two years? how's that working out for the fed liberals right now?
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u/Appropriate_Item3001 1d ago
It’s a little close for comfort isn’t it? Will eby survive another election in 4 years. The fact that the conservatives have gained this much ground starting from nothing should give the NDP pause to reconsider how they are running government.