image

So; yesterday was the Federal Election.

Here are the results in my riding:

When I looked at the political platforms of each of the major parties (the 'Animal Protection Party' is not a major party) I checked out what their proposals were with respect to addressing the Climate Crisis and only the Green Party had an aggressive enough plan, so that is where I put my vote.

Francis Scarpaleggia of the Liberal Party received 25,699 more votes than the Green Party candidate did, and by far the most overall, so Scarpa is now the representative of my riding in parliament.

It is not a terrible thing that the person I voted for did not get enough votes to win in this specific case, as having a Liberal Party candidate win means that there was one more Liberal to offset the gains that the Conservative Party had across Canada.

As you can see above, there is no party that received the min of 170 seats in parliament to form a majority government. The Liberal Party has the most number of seats, so they have won and will form a minority government. The way this has traditionally worked in the last generation or two is that rather than form an official coalition, the ruling party in a minority will align with other parties on an issue by issue basis as they bring new rules and laws into governance.

For example, the Liberals and the Conservatives both want the TMX pipeline to be built, but each of the other remaining opposing parties are against it, but the Liberals and the Conservatives can group together to form a majority on this issue and rule in its favour.

Similarly, the Liberals and the NDP/Green could agree on climate crisis regulations that the Conservatives would be against, and the Liberals and NDP/Green would form a majority for this issue.

Finally, for things that would benefit Quebec, the Liberals could align with the Bloc to form a majority and pass laws that help Quebec through this majority.

That's about it, for now.