Ontario Elects Liberal Majority

[LChoy]

I know CP is Calgary based, but is there anyone that's interested in the Ontario election tonight?

Liberal just won a majority government which was somewhat of a surprise, considering the election was suppose to be too close to call.

Ontario has elected a Liberal majority government, CTV News is projecting, with voters showing strong support for Kathleen Wynne after the scandal-plagued years of her predecessor.
As of 10:20 p.m. ET, the Liberals were leading in 57 ridings, the Progressive Conservatives were ahead in 28 and the NDP in 22. At dissolution, the Liberals held 48 seats, the PCs held 37 seats, while the NDP held 21 seats. One seat was vacant.


Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ctv-p...#ixzz34U5JChq0

Should be very disappointing for Hudak (PC leader) where it could have been his election to lose, and he will be resigning from the leadership

[Caged Great]

Good.

[killer_carlson]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Good.

I think you forgot the green font.

[dissentowner]

Well when Hudak said he would fire 100,000 people he pretty much handed it to the Liberals.

[FlamesAddiction]

I actually voted for the first time in my life today. The station was literally about 50m from my front door, so it was too convenient not to vote. I voted for the Green Party.

They actually did reasonably well in this election. Up from 3% to %5.

[LChoy]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Well when Hudak said he would fire 100,000 people he pretty much handed it to the Liberals.

Yeah, I never understood the strategy behind that...

[burn_this_city]

I thought it would be closer. Dumb move to say you're going to lay off 100k yet make 1M jobs. The liberals were fortunate, they were ripe for the picking.

[Free Ben Hur!]

Awesome, another tax and spend majority government in Canada's largest province. This'll work out well.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!

Awesome, another tax and spend majority government in Canada's largest province. This'll work out well.

You forgot "borrow" and also "borrow borrow borrow".

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

I think you forgot the green font.

I really disliked Hudek, so I am glad they got trounced.

[Matty81]

Would not have predicted that there would be Liberal majorities in Quebec, Ontario and BC over the last year - it looked like they had no chance of majorities in all three elections at various points in the campaigns and BC and Ontario are fairly big surprises. The BC Liberals are more of a centrist coalition but that brand name seems to be really crushing it in provincial politics in the bigger provinces right now.

[Parallex]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Well when Hudak said he would fire 100,000 people he pretty much handed it to the Liberals.

Yeah seriously... "vote for me and I'll create 100,000 more unemployed people"... not the best campaign slogan (particularly for voters that might be one of those 100,000).

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Yeah seriously... "vote for me and I'll create 100,000 more unemployed people"... not the best campaign slogan (particularly for voters that might be one of those 100,000).

And that's the main reason why I disliked him. You don't cheer/vote for stupidity ever.

That's one of the dumbest ideas I've seen in a campaign.

[OffsideSpecialist]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Yeah seriously... "vote for me and I'll create 100,000 more unemployed people"... not the best campaign slogan (particularly for voters that might be one of those 100,000).

well it was the "Million Jobs Plan" but I think he was far too abrasive. I look forward to seeing them with a new leader next time if I am still in Ontario.


I also think it was foolish to have absolutely nothing to talk about with regards to his platform besides that plan.

As much as the Liberals suck, I'm not sure the other options would have been better.

[calculoso]

Unbelievable. Billions of dollars wasted, and they get promoted from Minority to Majority.

Electricity rates up anywhere from 30-50% over the last 5 years. Daytime electricity rates currently 13.5c...

Taxes waaayyyy up all the time.

Can't wait for the next 4 years.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Parallex

Yeah seriously... "vote for me and I'll create 100,000 more unemployed people"... not the best campaign slogan (particularly for voters that might be one of those 100,000).

The 100,000 cuts were going to be done through attrition. People weren't going to get laid off, but the Liberals and NDP spun it to their advantage. When you look at the enormous deficit that Ontario holds, the fact that people voted to continue spending blindly rather than take any austerity measures is truly disgraceful. A sad day for Ontario.

[calculoso]

Results speak volumes... seats again does not match popular vote.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ontar...n-2014/results

Vote:
LIB 38%
PC 31%
NDP 24%
GRN 5%

Seats:
LIB 58 (54%)
PC 27 (25%)
NDP 22 (20%)
GRN 0

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

Good.

I'm glad you Albertans are happy with this, because you'll be bailing us out through equalization payments for the next decade

[Machiavelli]

There were a lot of attack ads against Hudak.... a lot.

[GirlySports]

Hudek was an idiot.

The Tories counted one person holding a job for eight years as eight jobs when they made the million jobs promise.