Instead of the headline Canada Holds Elections, we got While Canadians Vote, TRUMP Suggests They Vote For Him and They Become the 51st State

At least it's over and we can get back to the Emperor's plan to annex Greenland.

Give it time.

The amount of Canadians that think they have a first amendment right to free speech is growing. The only way to avoid this is going to be actually doing a good job of lowering income equality and lowering living costs (as % of income).

(Take your pick as what counts as the 1st Canadian amendment but it's not free speech [1])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendments_to_the_Constitution...

Jagmeet Singh, NDP leader (left-wing, typically blue collar worker-centric), also didn't win a seat (he came in 3rd place in his riding).

Singh announced he would be stepping down as NDP leader (many noted that he had qualified for his pension recently). NDP lost many seats (> 2/3 pre-election seats) and official party status (12 MPs min).

Looks like many typical NDP voters jumped to the Liberal bandwagon to fight off the threat from down south. I hope that's what POTUS was expecting when he started the 51st state trolling.

And people were worried about political/election interference from China...

see https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/takeaways-election-results-... and https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-canadian-election-analys...

A weird read on the situation. Canada would have a conservative government today if Trump hadn't pushed tariffs back in February. PP just didn't have a strong "rah rah" response to those and it probably cost the conservatives the election.

Carney is also very shrewd. He quickly adopted the most popular conservative positions as his own (e.g. "axe the tax") to appeal to conservative voters. The culture war, meanwhile, is very much here. Similar to the US, conservatives did surprisingly well with young men[1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/canada-votes-election-c...