True. I meant to highlight the differences and keep it simple. Quite right that Doug isn’t the old party, just a different flavour of the Reform guys.

You must really hate when you see the repeat in fabric design.

No he doesn’t. He didn’t run.

I see now. J’excuse.

Rentlar’s synopsis is really good, but I’ll add a tiny bit of backstory. The Progressive Conservative party was the old stalwart, around forever, with not crazy views. Fiscally conservative. In the 90’s a new brand of social conservative came on the scene from Alberta, the Reform party. Suddenly the conservative vote was getting split by fiscal conservatives (bring down the debt) and social conservatives (bring down big gay) and so there was a movement to “unite the right” that is now the current Conservative Party of Canada CPC which just lost the election. It has always been a tenuous alliance and shows cracks occasionally, but stays together because they win elections. Losing has caused the old conservatives and the reform conservatives to infight. Doug Ford is east/old style Pierre Pollivre is west/new style. They both really hate each other which is lovely to see from the other side.

The fun thing about lemmy is you get to know all the assholes by name. I’ve met that cob a few times now.

I see your “fuck off” and and raise you 3 “eat shits” and one “go fuck yourself”

As an aside, you are far less cool than you think. Dickhead.

I found out about it from a comment on lemmy! A hidden jem! The enshittifiers missed it! So far…

All I need is a 100km/hour golf cart. With seat belts and crash protection.

An unpopular opinion, but I’m not buying a conspiracy either. The guy wanted to hurt Boeing, had just finished testifying and saw the writing on the wall that Boeing was going to walk, and decided to kill himself as a last stab at bringing attention to it. Worked like a charm too.

We hope. It might be the senate in 10 years.

Share it to Firefox, and click the little page in the browser bar to open reader mode. Sometimes you have to refresh it to get past the prompt. Works most of the time, it’s a great trick.

Fair. Shamed probably is the wrong word and I shouldn’t purport to know about what actually went down aside from a possibly misremembered documentary I watched once.

I look at it like; Liberals are controlled by the banks, Conservatives are controlled by the energy sector.

Whip out the PP!

In my hope of hopes this is the exact outcome I hoped for. A liberal minority with NDP balance, and PP lost his seat!

You’re conveniently leaving out the fact that the federal Greens spent the last several years destroying itself through infighting. Remember the leader that was elected to replace the long suffering Elizabeth May who then stole a bunch of money, started a bunch of law suits against the party and then May had to take back over under a joint leadership?

They’re a novelty party, not a party of governance.

(I have voted Green several times, but never again in their current arrangement)

Quite true. The reason for celebration is that had the conservatives won they were planning to defund our public broadcaster right off the bat. We need all kinds of reforms but having the CBC around to report on them will be quite important.

And he was a gay guy that Mr. Rogers shamed into staying closeted.

I’m on sync as well. Also compounded by my phone auto typing the word with 2 spaces.

Perhaps it said “don’t” and then they changed it?