This informative Wikipedia post Tuesday morning gives the seat count above for Canada’s new House of Commons — another minority for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. The resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois reveals a very Canadian outcome in which Quebec opts out of national politics and creates political uncertainty. It’s Canada.
Liberal Toronto and how
Predictions of a Liberal bonanza in Toronto have been fulfilled. There are essentially no changes among seats in Midtown Toronto. CTV has a full list of GTA outcomes here.
Conservatives win popular vote
The CPC won the most votes in the 2021 federal election but wasn’t able to translate that support into the most seats. Tory voters live in the wrong places to create a win in the HOC. They collected 34.1 percent of the gross ballots with the Liberals taking 31.8 percent of the total number of votes cast. That translated into 46.2 percent of the total seats for the Liberals (158 seats).
Yet more spending for everything it seems
This City News yack early Tuesday suggests a Liberal/NDP arrangement to introduce many new spending projects — nice but of course, someone has to pay.
