2015 Canadian Election

[Camicon]

In 15 min the votes start to pour in from Que, and Ont.

Gonna have a stats-gasm here. The anticipation.

[Ithra]

CNN's top headline is Oscar Pistorius. The celebrity/athlete obsession continues.

CSPAN 2 has got the election down.

And all 2 viewers get to watch it

[Shrillland]

I'm enjoying how there is virtually no coverage of the election in American media, yet it is currently the leading story on the BBC.

CNN's top headline is Oscar Pistorius. The celebrity/athlete obsession continues.

And that's why I come here instead. Most Americans still think that Canada is a place where most of the population is made of beavers, I'm sorry to say.

[MERIZoC]

In 15 min the votes start to pour in from Que, and Ont.

Gonna have a stats-gasm here. The anticipation.

Wait. Is Reggie Canadian?

Dammit, he isn't.

[Discutor]

And now, the deluge begins as polls close in all but BC.

You mean the déluge when Trudeau puts us neck-deep into debt again after Harper barely dug us out? All that infrastructure he's planning to renovate is going to be falling apart again 10 years later and we're not gonna have a penny left to fix that. The most important part of government is the system by which it generates cash, because that allows you to invest that cash in building the country.

If you're trying to build the country with cash you don't actually possess, then trying to pay that back using a cash-generation system that's broken because you're in debt...then your next stop is Screwedland. I don't for one second believe that Turdeau is going to follow through on his promise of balancing the budget in 2019.

For example Obama's policy has been to try and spend his way out of an economic slowdown and guess where the US is now? That's right, deeper in debt than ever. Of course the US has the world's largest military and attracts the most investment, so their creditors can't really do shit..except wait for the US's interest payments to be larger than China's entire defence budget.

Ontario - another genius example of trying to spend your way out of a broken economic system. In debt? You betcha. Ontario's load is now the largest of any sub-sovereign borrower and more than double that of California, USA's largest state.

[Camicon]

They want to actually look at it first. As far as I know, the Tories haven't exactly been forthcoming about what it contains.

Which is the best approach to be honest. Try to negotiate the bad aspects as best you can, rather than scrap the whole thing. Only scrap if absolutely necessary.

And yeah, Obama is closer to the Liberal Party (though the Grits are more to the left than he is, generally speaking). IIRC didn't some of his advisers join Trudeau's campaign team? Or at least two of them have expressed support for Trudeau becoming PM.

Especially because scrapping it entirely would have massively negative effects on Canada. Getting cut out of the TPP could very well be worse than getting shafted by joining it.

[Ithra]

CNN's top headline is Oscar Pistorius. The celebrity/athlete obsession continues.

And that's why I come here instead. Most Americans still think that Canada is a place where most of the population is made of beavers, I'm sorry to say.

Don't forget moose and bears...and penguins...

[Ontorisa]

CNN's top headline is Oscar Pistorius. The celebrity/athlete obsession continues.

CSPAN 2 has got the election down.

"Tyrone, tell us how this election goin' down cuz."

"Well Tyrese, y'all see that these red mofos out in the east o'er here be killin' it yo. Mah boy J Truds gonna legalize that good kush for me and da boyz so we can hit it."

"Straight up. This concludes our coverage of the northern elections y'all."

[Kelinfort]

CSPAN 2 has got the election down.

And all 2 viewers get to watch it

"You're looking at the only CSPAN watcher in the Southern 'Merica Tribe."

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

Bluejays 7 KC 2 Lets go Blue Jays!

In 15 min the votes start to pour in from Que, and Ont.

Gonna have a stats-gasm here. The anticipation.

*My body is Reggie

[Nickel Empire]

I'm too young, though I would vote conservative.

Really? What about the platform aligns with your views? I'm asking because I read the party platforms before voting in the advanced polls.

They for the most part align with my views. I support them for being supporters of Canada's military and cutting regulations for business's. I did vote for conservative in Election's Canada below 18 voting system thing they got going.

[Ithra]

And all 2 viewers get to watch it

"You're looking at the only CSPAN watcher in the Southern 'Merica Tribe."

Probably

[Napkiraly]

In 15 min the votes start to pour in from Que, and Ont.

This'll be when the election is more or less decided, when they're done. Unless it's incredibly tight in Ontario.

[Oneracon]

CNN's top headline is Oscar Pistorius. The celebrity/athlete obsession continues.

And that's why I come here instead. Most Americans still think that Canada is a place where most of the population is made of beavers, I'm sorry to say.

I think that anyone can view the online election coverage from CBC. At least Americans, since it's linked on the C-SPAN page.

[Ontorisa]

And that's why I come here instead. Most Americans still think that Canada is a place where most of the population is made of beavers, I'm sorry to say.

I think that anyone can view the online election coverage from CBC. At least Americans, since it's linked on the C-SPAN page.

How many Americans know that C-SPAN even exists?

[Camicon]

In 15 min the votes start to pour in from Que, and Ont.

This'll be when the election is more or less decided, when they're done. Unless it's incredibly tight in Ontario.

If things stay tight, then BC could very well be the tie breaker.

[Kaboomlandia]

This'll be when the election is more or less decided, when they're done. Unless it's incredibly tight in Ontario.

If things stay tight, then BC could very well be the tie breaker.

I'll be shocked if BC doesn't turn red.

[Ithra]

I think that anyone can view the online election coverage from CBC. At least Americans, since it's linked on the C-SPAN page.

How many Americans know that C-SPAN even exists?

Uh, 10...no wait! 11

[Kelinfort]

And that's why I come here instead. Most Americans still think that Canada is a place where most of the population is made of beavers, I'm sorry to say.

I think that anyone can view the online election coverage from CBC. At least Americans, since it's linked on the C-SPAN page.

CSPAN 2 is CBC live. The only way I knew it would be on was the 1995 Quebec referendum was on CSPAN 2.

[Napkiraly]

Really? What about the platform aligns with your views? I'm asking because I read the party platforms before voting in the advanced polls.

They for the most part align with my views. I support them for being supporters of Canada's military and cutting regulations for business's. I did vote for conservative in Election's Canada below 18 voting system thing they got going.

They do not support Canada's military. That can be seen with how hard they hit veterans. They care in the sense of buying more equipment, but give jack shit once you're out.

As I said previously, the person I know who has close ties to the military says a lot of personnel fucking hate Harper right now.

We've also seen spending on defence as % of GDP drop under him. We've hardly kept up to where we were before.

[MERIZoC]

https://twitter.com/MFFahmy11/status/656271663995088896/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
This was nice to see.

[Canadian Davsland]

Ina few minutes, polls close from QC-AB

[Ontorisa]

How many Americans know that C-SPAN even exists?

Uh, 10...no wait! 11

10. The 11th guy moved to Canada.

[Oneracon]

And now, the deluge begins as polls close in all but BC.

You mean the déluge when Trudeau puts us neck-deep into debt again after Harper barely dug us out? All that infrastructure he's planning to renovate is going to be falling apart again 10 years later and we're not gonna have a penny left to fix that. The most important part of government is the system by which it generates cash, because that allows you to invest that cash in building the country.

If you're trying to build the country with cash you don't actually possess, then trying to pay that back using a cash-generation system that's broken because you're in debt...then your next stop is Screwedland. I don't for one second believe that Turdeau is going to follow through on his promise of balancing the budget in 2019.

For example Obama's policy has been to try and spend his way out of an economic slowdown and guess where the US is now? That's right, deeper in debt than ever. Of course the US has the world's largest military and attracts the most investment, so their creditors can't really do shit..except wait for the US's interest payments to be larger than China's entire defence budget.

Ontario - another genius example of trying to spend your way out of a broken economic system. In debt? You betcha. Ontario's load is now the largest of any sub-sovereign borrower and more than double that of California, USA's largest state.

You realize that Harper's plan was the same as Obama's, right? The Economic Action Plan was government spending out of an economic slowdown... because that's what economics says: When the private side of the economy shrinks, the government side needs to grow to ensure the economy doesn't collapse.

As for this "balanced budget" fallacy, a balanced budget really means a stagnant economy. You can't grow without controlled spending.

[Ithra]

Uh, 10...no wait! 11

10. The 11th guy moved to Canada.

Damn! I thought we lost someone.
Well I am sure we will find another 11th man...eventually