That's quite the result there. Will be interesting to see how it plays out alliance wise, and who backs who for control over the Minority government.
The Island PCs are very much in the Red Tory tradition, for the most part. Dennis King isn't an ideologue, so I wouldn't expect him to start pushing unpopular conservative ideas; he pretty much ran on the opposite of that, he was conspicuously moderate.
It failed on one of the criteria so the electoral system in PEI won't be changed.
Narrow loss. Came much closer than I thought it would, frankly. It even got 50%+1 in at least 14 districts.
Welp. I guess we're just done all around then.
We need some Bouchard 50+1 "clear majority" style complaining or something. lol
I'm sure it's disappointing in comparison to the hopes raised of actually winning the most seats, but this is a big, big win for the Green Party on PEI. It's very rare to go from nothing to government in a single election, as well.
Another Conservative government? Another turfed Liberal party?
Unless you mention the carbon tax or carbon pricing, which was the primary point of differentiation from other options and the only point he loses his congeniality about.
Glad you're happy about folks electing parties with members that privately (and openly, on occasion) wish I was dead. Not that it has much to do with this election, since none of what excites you about Conservatives will be possible in a minority government, unless he wants to swiftly lose his government.Another Conservative government? Another turfed Liberal party?
No successful Tory leader in PEI history has ever faced a grassroots rebellion on a policy issue. He took them (narrowly) back to power; they're more than satisfied with that.
I wonder what we would end up with if we Frankensteined you and Gutter into one being. Probably something like Boogie I'd imagine.Another Conservative government? Another turfed Liberal party?
If by "died", you mean got yet another majority but was set up to fail via a government imposed technicality? Yes.
One could argue that with so many abnormalities to conventional island politics going on there, the past is no indicator of anything. This is PEI's first minority government since 1890 when the Liberals and Tories tied. It goes without saying that party loyalists wouldn't revolt against a majority when they can get what they voted for more often than not.
The Tories weren't voted in on scrapping the carbon tax. Their platform was barely emphasized (as with most of the parties; this wasn't an ideological campaign on any side). Which is the norm in Island elections. There hasn't been an election that was really strongly about a sharp ideological contrast since 1970, when the Comprehensive Development Plan was at issue.
Can people explain how Trudeau could have prevented a rise in right extremism. Don't quote the SNC affair as this was happening long before that.
It seems like it basically boils down to him promising electoral reform and breaking the promise, so even though no one else was going to change anything and we'd be in this situation without him anyway, it's all his fault for giving people that brief glimmer of hope.
