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Alberta will have one cabinet minister, but it will be the Calgary MP Corey Hogan, who will be a good minister and is currently a VP at UofC and has government experience including with Notley.

Sohi was Edmonton's hope at a minister, although we do have Carney with obvious ties here.
 
Kosy123 said:
Seat count might be disappointing for the Liberals but they got 28.6% of the popular vote here. That's the best they've gotten in decades. They've got some foundations here like in Edmonton-Riverbend which was much closer than expected and the Calgary ridings they were close in.

They've got a solid base to work off from in the future.
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It wouldn't be surprising if the LPC MP for City Centre was called to Cabinet, which is even better for representation.
 
Sooo…

According to some, I’m now stuck with an MP I didn’t vote for because I didn’t vote “strategically”.

From my perspective I’m not stuck with my MP after this election any more than I was stuck with my MP after the last election before our neighborhood was moved from Strathcona to Griesbach.

In both cases, I voted for other than the winning candidate but in both cases I cast what I considered to be an informed ballot based on my priorities and my conscience remains clear.

Across the entire country, more people voted against the Conservative Party candidates than for them and more people voted against the Liberal party candidates than for them. That’s how democracy works in Canada. The system doesn’t depend on those who won and those who voted for them, it depends on those who didn’t win and those who voted for them.

Everyone who voted participated to the fullest extent possible and I’m still happy with the choice I made to vote for something and not simply against something. And until the next election the optimist in me trusts that every MP remembers that they need to represent and advocate for those who did not vote for them as much as those that did. The cynic in me knows that not all 338 MP’s are capable of that. The realist in me simply hopes that more of them will than won’t.
 
Alberta will have one cabinet minister, but it will be the Calgary MP Corey Hogan, who will be a good minister and is currently a VP at UofC and has government experience including with Notley.

Sohi was Edmonton's hope at a minister, although we do have Carney with obvious ties here.
kcantor said:
Sooo…

According to some, I’m now stuck with an MP I didn’t vote for because I didn’t vote “strategically”.

From my perspective I’m not stuck with my MP after this election any more than I was stuck with my MP after the last election before our neighborhood was moved from Strathcona to Griesbach.

In both cases, I voted for other than the winning candidate but in both cases I cast what I considered to be an informed ballot based on my priorities and my conscience remains clear.

Across the entire country, more people voted against the Conservative Party candidates than for them and more people voted against the Liberal party candidates than for them. That’s how democracy works in Canada. The system doesn’t depend on those who won and those who voted for them, it depends on those who didn’t win and those who voted for them.

Everyone who voted participated to the fullest extent possible and I’m still happy with the choice I made to vote for something and not simply against something. And until the next election the optimist in me trusts that every MP remembers that they need to represent and advocate for those who did not vote for them as much as those that did. The cynic in me knows that not all 338 MP’s are capable of that. The realist in me simply hopes that more of them will than won’t.
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Well said. Although I think the results show a lot of regular NDP voters 'lent' their votes to the Libs this election, not as their first choice, but to ensure our PM was Poilievre. And that is why Carney is now PM.

I think that happened in Quebec to some degree as well. Bloc may have been first choice but went with Libs due to thought of Poilievre leading Canada in negotiations with Trump.

I know in Alberta in provincial elections, even progressive conservatives and certainly liberal voters opted to vote NDP last election because there wasn't a fiscally conservative, socially progressive good option.
 
With Eleanor Olszewski victorious in Edmonton Centre and with Heather McPherson also holding on to an NDP riding, Edmonton stands to have a potential Cabinet minister and if the Carney Government turns out to be a Minority Government then an NDP like-minded will put Heather in good stead in terms of committee heads. This is short of what I was hoping for Edmonton, but it may well bode positivity for the City in the short-run.
 
The NDP has been decimated. If the Liberals do end with a minority government then they'll need to cut a deal with the Bloc Quebecois to remain in power.

I predict that Heather McPherson will become the new NDP leader now that Jagmeet Singh is stepping down.
 
Markyeg said:
No they don’t. They have 169 seats and if they cut a deal with the NDP and their 7 MPs, it’ll push them over 172.
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The odds of a majority government are low, but they're still not zero. Out of the 6 ridings still in play that could flip Liberal (5 conservatives and 1 NDP led), 5 are led by less than 500 votes and the one remaining poll in each of them could very well swing it by over 1000 votes, as has been the case in several ridings over the past 12hrs.
But yes, a deal with the NDP is more than enough, although I don't expect as much resistance to them by the Bloc, especially is Poilievre stays as CPC leader
 
Bloc said they'll give Liberals one year. ND's will need a year to sort things out. Conservatives probably want a year to fundraise etc.
 
Greenspace said:
Liberals now at 169. Just a one or two more, make Elizabeth May the speaker and get one ND to cross the floor and boom you got a majority.
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If they are at 169 (there are two ridings going to recount) then they would need 3 to get to a majority. They are not likely to engage "the Bloc" except on legislation directly affecting Quebec but they could certainly count on the 7 remaining NDP on other legislation.
 
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