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Is that book upside down?
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There is no way he knows this.
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A lot of expensive and complicated work. Why are film companies up here in the first place? We built an industry through production tax credits and a trained work force. Nothing stopping him from doing the same.
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Canada has a system to see whether a song is Canadian (for Canadian content rules). It's multi-part and was thought through first and is still debated over fine points. And that's just a song, not a whole movie. I think he's trying to hurt our film/TV production industry but to put into practice?
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They could also shoot your dogs. Better to keep ICE outside.
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These raids are escalating. We strongly recommend installing alarm systems and having a plan in place in case ICE “accidentally” shows up at your door often in the middle of the night or at highly unexpected times. Always have a plan to keep your family safe.
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"If you look at the first few seconds of the Challenger liftoff, it was an A+, letter-perfect mission. All of you focusing on what happened in the next few seconds are just looking to find fault."
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Scare the Elderly
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You'd think that, but somehow he thinks he's going to stay. His argument will be that the Cons did better than in the last election (which they did, though so much worse than they were polling all last year). We'll know if they'll call a bi-election to give him a seat.
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I don't think they'll officially form a coalition but they will probably have the votes to pass most things. Where those votes will come from--BQ, NDP, Green--will depend on what they're trying to pass. Creating new national parks would get NDP/Green support. Some financial things, maybe the BQ.
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I am too. Some of it was the usual Liberal NDP vote split, though, if that makes you feel any better. Look at PC ridings in Edmonton, for example, and add the Liberal and NDP votes. Throw any non-Con right wing votes to the Cons as well. You'll usually see a much higher center-left vote.
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Whatever you say, superstar.
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Unless they do a run-off. Normally a party leader steps down after something like this but PP thinks not. What they'll do if he stays is do a by-election (run-off) somewhere that PP absolutely can't lose, so some Con will resign, new election in that riding only, PP gets elected, he gets a seat.
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Last night, 5 parties had members elected from the various ridings (seats, constituencies) across Canada: Liberal, Conservative, Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Green. The leaders of 3 of these parties were not elected in their "safe" ridings. That's unusual. Strange times.
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Parties prioritize putting their leader into a safe riding, because anyone-even a party leader-needs to be elected in a riding in order to debate in the house, vote in the house, basically participate beyond being an observer.
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Party leaders usually get to run in a "safe" riding, where either the leader is so personally loved that people there vote for them no matter what, or where the party is so popular that people will elect anyone running for that party.
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(It is possible for other parties to form a coalition and form a govt instead, many wiggly bits, but this is the usual thing.)
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Thank you for this! To clarify a bit more for the OP, there's no Prime Minister ballot. You vote for a local candidate and the party that had the most candidates elected forms a govt and their leader becomes PM. But party leaders also run in a local riding somewhere.
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Look inside yourself, Rosemary.