Tuesday Tidbits: Whew…
Okay, not quite a majority, and the Conservatives won more seats than last time, taking a few previously Liberal held ridings along with stealing some NDP seats. But Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre lost his seat, which might be more telling than his party not winning the election.
What does this all mean?
The Liberal Party has 168 seats in parliament. The four other parties combined have 175, meaning if they wanted to, they could vote no on everything the Liberals wanted to do.
The Liberals had a minority last time but the NDP used this to their advantage by supporting them and giving them enough votes in return for passing several social programs like government dental and prescription plans. Not a bad thing.
In Quebec, the Bloc Québécois, a regional party focused on what’s good for Quebec (Canada’s second most populous province) lost seats to the Liberals, but can now lend their votes in return for favours for Quebec.
So now Canada has a leader who was once in charge of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and navigated them through the 2008 banking crisis and Brexit. Now he can lend his expertise to figure out how to deal with a worldwide economic disaster brought on by the American president.
He might just be the best person for the job.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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