CTV: P.E.I. Tories win minority government, with Green opposition
The Progressive Conservatives won a minority government in Tuesday's P.E.I. election, with a Green official opposition.
The incumbent Liberals were reduced to third place, with Premier Wade MacLauchlan going down to defeat in his own district of Stanhope-Marshfield.
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Voters in P.E.I. have shed their century-old embrace of the Island's two-party system by electing a Tory minority government, bringing a dramatic conclusion to a tight electoral race that saw the upstart Green party secure a firm foothold in the legislature.
Two hours after the polls closed Tuesday, the Tories were leading and elected in 12 ridings, the Greens were in second with nine and the incumbent Liberals, led by Premier Wade MacLauchlan, were in third with five.
MacLauchlan failed to win his seat.
"It's something that happens in politics," he told reporters. "The tide has changed."
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Update #1: CBC News projects PC minority government in P.E.I. (CBC)
Update #2: Prince Edward Island election results: voters elect PC minority (Global News)
WNU editor: I live in Canada, so I follow politics very closely here. For the past week the media has been telling everyone that the Greens were leading in the polls, and they were on their way to become the first Green Provincial government ever elected in Canada. Many were even hinting that it could be historic. With the results now official, the following conclusions can now be made. The polls, the media, and the pundits were completely wrong. Again. The final results are here. This election is another defeat for the Liberal brand, and an ominous sign for Prime Minister Trudeau. In the last election Prime Minister Trudeau won every riding in the Atlantic provinces. That is clearly not going to happen when Canadians go to the polls later this year.
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"The polls, the media, and the pundits were completely wrong. Again"
“Sure would be nice if our news networks—the only outlets that can force change in this country—would cover it with commensurate urgency.” - Chris Hayes
It is why people say that the mainstream press (i.e the liberal press)
narrates and does nopt report.
Chris Hayes and others need to collect unemployment and be put on SSI. He and others likw them are uselsess and have no skills.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/22/msnbc-twice-cancelled-ratings-killer-climate-action-advocate-katharine-hayhoe/
Hayes tweeted, was that “every single time we’ve covered [climate change] it’s been a palpable ratings killer. So the incentives are not great.”
But they keep trying the same old play on climate change and on poltics.
You have to wonder if the people/organizations that conduct the "polls" are just inept at acquiring information, interrupting what they find, or attempting to manipulate the outcome.
The few times I have been "polled" my responses are opposit to what I am planning to do, voting wise. That is unless the call is from one of the parties and then I am really supportive of whichever party they are until they ask for money.
The area I live in is massively supportive of the Liberals, federally, Conservatives provincially and has been for a very long time. They don't need money.
...the Liberals, federally, Conservatives provincially and ...
Do you want to try that again using proper grammar?
The best option for Canada is a minority government. It will then be painfully obvious how little difference there is between Canada's mainstream parties.
Aside from the above, Trudeau had better watch baiting the Conservatives on their White supremacist fanboys lest people start asking uncomfortable questions about Freeland's links to Galician Nazis. Not to mention Canada's military deployment in Ukraine which is largely commanded by Galicians.
Anon
Well for once we agree, almost that is, except that minority governments often do not survive for long once they stop doing responsible governing. In a close minority situation between the two major parties one of them forms a coalition with one of the minority parties, usual the third party. The price for obtaining that coalition is often something important to the people. That is how Canada got its universal healthcare program way back in the 1950s or so.
As for Canadian military on a training mission in Ukraine. I tell you I really hate when our government sucks up to the US.
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