Mastodawn

Tomorrow it will be two weeks until the Canadian federal election. I wish more Canadian voters understood that with a dictatorship south of the border, we are on the front lines for the fight to preserve democracy. We can’t afford boutique voting or single issue doctrinal purity. There is never a perfect choice in who to vote for, but the only issue that matters is electing a government that will not bend the knee to Trump. If we screw tht issue up, all other issues become moot. #cdnpoli

FallsMom 🌻Apr 13, 2025

Please learn from the horrible choice many US voters made! 🙏

GG Apr 13, 2025

@Jgmeadows 🇨🇦 “the only issue that matters is electing a government that will not bend the knee to Trump. If we screw that issue up, all other issues become moot”

#elxn45 #maplemaga #cdnpoli #canada

C.S.Strowbridge Apr 13, 2025

If you are Canadian, find out who won your riding last time. If they were Liberal, NDP, or Green, vote for them again. If not, vote Liberal, unless the NDP or Green were a close second last time.

The goal is to embarrass the Conservatives so the Maple MAGAts never get into power.

Robin Barton Apr 13, 2025

@Jgmeadows True words. Poilievre's wife belongs to Mom's for Liberty which is a USA alt-right group that loves to ban books and fights against LGBQ. He is mini-MAGA and will bring Canada in line with Trump's MAGA dreams.

cwicseolfor (has moved!)Apr 13, 2025

@Jgmeadows I’m honestly really afraid for CA; so many here who hated Trump still decided Harris “didn’t deserve” their vote; she didn’t make an explicit statement for Palestine, so they sat the whole thing out (nevermind what Trump DID say about a Gaza resort, and many other vulnerable groups.) I don’t know if the RU propaganda farms are as active there as here, but I hear a worrying lot of implicit “unlike the US, it could never happen here” denialism.

Rooting for you all from Texas.

John Meadows Apr 13, 2025

@cwicseolfor A lot of US-owned media here, which worries me!

cwicseolfor (has moved!)Apr 13, 2025

@Jgmeadows So a lot of Russian-backed storylines filtering through there then. To clarify I don’t think a majority of our horrible politics AREN’T homegrown, but there’s been a trend of RU, MK impersonation farms pretending to be US POC telling people not to vote and sully their hands in our bloody system, and it was a significant voter suppression campaign in 2016.

NZ really had it right forbidding any Murdoch media all those years.

ireadalot Apr 13, 2025

@Jgmeadows votewell.ca
if you live in an electoral district where the progressive vote is split 2 or more ways ...
... use strategic voting to make your vote count
#cdnpoli
#canadavotes
#strategicvoting
#votewell #Elxn45

Eric Lawton Apr 13, 2025

In my riding, the last couple of Federal elections, the Liberals and NDP got almost the same votes, at about 14% each.

The Conservatives got 51%.

Today, they're polling at 56%, NDP has collapsed to 6%, Liberals soared to 33%

The fringe parties have collapsed as well.

So I'm just going to vote for the least bad party, IMO, the NDP, mostly as moral support and "no" to a two-party system.

John Meadows Apr 14, 2025

Are you talking about your own riding?

Eric Lawton Apr 14, 2025

Yes. Sorry, I shouldn't try to write after only 4 hours sleep last night. 😟

John Meadows Apr 14, 2025

I've been dealing with insomnia, so I get it!

I hope you get a better night's sleep tonight!

Eric Lawton Apr 14, 2025

Thanks. I edited to clarify.

GG Apr 14, 2025

@EricLawton @Jgmeadows Yikes Eric, did a quick search on your riding 😳
What a nightmare.
I'll also get no sleep tonight ;)

Eric Lawton Apr 14, 2025

Yeah, my MP had the "honour" of being the first MP to announce support for PP when he ran for the CPC leadership.
😡

SaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦Apr 14, 2025

@EricLawton @gemelliz @Jgmeadows great Canadian would vote strategically. But go ahead let the RW win. Look at USA. It is really working out down there

Eric Lawton Apr 14, 2025

There's no useful tactical vote here. If there was any chance the Liberals would win, I'd vote for them.

Our MP, Jamie Schmale is right-wing but very well-known and well-liked in the community, because he has done a lot of work to help with personal problems with government over the years.

The Liberal and NDP candidates are unknown.

Strategic is long term, so that's what I am going for,

Have a "great Canadian" day.

@gemelliz @Jgmeadows

John Meadows Apr 14, 2025

I agree in your situation there’s not much that can be done. What bugs me is ridings where the Liberals and NDP are neck and neck, trailing the CPC.

I do think a Liberal victory is better for the NDP than a CPC victory. The federal NDP need time to find a new leader (Angus please!!) and spend some introspection time reinventing themselves. A Liberal victory would give them some breathing room.

Under Poilievre, the clock would be ticking on Canada’s demise.

@SaanichGuy @gemelliz

Eric Lawton Apr 14, 2025

I agree. The NDP needs to do some serious re-thinking. Especially to make the Greens unnecessary, so as to split the vote less.

But we ***have*** to get rid of FPTP, artificial majorities or we keep getting large minorities unrepresented, and majority parties with near absolute power to their leader.

@SaanichGuy @gemelliz