• Hikuro-93
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    687 days ago

    If it was the other way around he’d never let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, the guy who had to get someone else to quit in order to keep his seat”.

    Politicians gonna politics, no surprise there.

    • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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      187 days ago

      He already didn’t let Carney hear the end of it - “Carney, who was not elected…”

  • @The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    256 days ago

    Shouldn’t there be some kind of election to fill the seat the politician resigned from? Otherwise, they could just have supermodels with masters degrees running for office, then resigning so a Nazi with a beer belly and a GED can take over.

    • Ironchico
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      166 days ago

      There will be a by-election and I’m sure someone will run against him from another party, but it’s a very conservative riding, so he’ll probably win pretty easy. But it would be the funniest thing ever if somehow he did manage to loose.

      • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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        106 days ago

        Man that seems so Twisted to me. How can you represent people you don’t spend any time around? How can you claim to know their needs if you don’t even live among them?

        • @spongebue@lemmy.world
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          56 days ago

          I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      106 days ago

      82% in favour of conservatives during the last election but Carney can wait 6 months to launch the by-election, that might be long enough to piss off some conservatives that might want to get rid of PP.

    • funkajunk
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      97 days ago

      He’ll win, the only reason he’s coming to Alberta is because it’s a slam dunk.

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      106 days ago

      To form an alliance you mean? The Bloc Quebecois already said they’ll be quiet for the next year as there’s lots to do, having two parties to work with means you don’t necessarily need to always bend the same way so it’s advantageous to leave the door open to sometimes compromise left and sometimes compromise in favour of what Quebec wants…

    • @Xhead@lemmings.world
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      67 days ago

      Political parties should just standby the morals and principles they try to uphold.

      If they align together, great they can both vote yes. If they don’t then they don’t. Pandering to other parties to get their vote just gets in the way of what you are actually trying to achieve.

      That’s my take anyways