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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
That was once true, but it's no longer the case. In the Oct. election the Liberals won 32 out of 42 seats in Toronto, which is 76% of the seats. And they only won an additional 6 seats in all of the rest of Ontario.
Take the Toronto seats out of the equation and the Liberals were elected to 45 of the remaining 266 seats in Canada, which is only 17% of those seats. So in reality they represent 17% of the constituencies in Canada outside of Toronto.
As for the west, the Liberals won 8 seats in total, including the territories, which is 8.5% of the 95 seats available in the west.
Please explain how a party that only has one power base in Canada, Toronto, is national party.
So in effect this is a coalition of Toronto, Quebec separatists and a left wing rump party that will never earn enough voter support to have any legitimate power on its own. Not only are the Liberals NOT a national party, this whole coalition cannot pretend to be a national party when it consists of two regional parties, the Toronto Liberals and the Bloc, plus a fringe group of socialists.
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You can spin this the same way if you look at Alberta provincial politics. The Liberals got seats in Central Calgary, Central Edmonton an one in Lethbridge.
You take out those areas an no other party other than PC got a single seat!
I'm not sure how valuable that type of analysis is.
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