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Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse (www.politico.eu)

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The remarkable campaign was upended by a backlash against Donald Trump, which sparked a stunning liberal resurgence.

Canada’s conservative leader lost his own seat in Monday’s election to cap off a stunning electoral meltdown that saw the Liberal Party rise from the polling doldrums to secure victory.

Pierre Poilievre, who faced off against Mark Carney and the incumbent center-left Liberals, lost his seat in rural Ottawa to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, national broadcaster CBC reported.

Poilievre first won the seat in 2004 and held it for two decades. Despite the massive swing against him in Carleton, he signaled to supporters Tuesday morning that he would stay on as leader of the Conservatives — though at that point CBC had not yet projected his defeat.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

They don't need to court the Quebec separatists or the one green seat if they can get agreement as they go from the new orange leader.

For the record, the greens have a bad rep that is not 100% deserved: they have, many times in the past, fielded a "responsible resource management" plan that included managed forest and plausible plans for extraction and sale of other natural resources. Canada would be well-served with more green presence keeping the blues honest about oil well cleanup and pushing some solar panel plans forward. However, what we see on the news about the greens are a bunch of hippies snarling about drinking straws and logging (except in fairy Creek, natch, because someone got paid) and it scares any widespread support away.

But if we allowed coalition governments instead of continued buy-in and support during the cons' weekly no-confident motions, we'd see a merged party of both separatist groups, and that would be darkly funny until each refused to speak the other's language.