Manitoba Election

[Hamloc]

Good point so tell us why do you support Trump again? LOL

Personally Chuck2 I view Trump, Biden and Trudeau all the same. They are all useless.

[ajl]

The only question about the MB election is: will the election of Wab either hasten or delay the flushing of MB down the shitter? Canuckistan is so far gone, it will take much more than an election to save her.

[chuckChuck]

So where in the world would you find a better place to live and work that would suit your point of view and everybody would agree with you? LOL

[DaneG]

Time may prove otherwise but, I believe the patients will be running the asylum!

[jazz]

North Dakota per capita gdp is $112k cdn.

MB per capita gdp is $57k cdn. That includes a billion dollars in equalization from Alberta and Sask.

Lets see if old Wab can close that gap.

LOL.

[sumdumguy]

Just wondering, we’re there mail-in ballots, how was the count done, by people counting at polling stations?. I don’t care where the election- those are my questions.

[chuckChuck]

North Dakota per capita gdp is $112k cdn.

MB per capita gdp is $57k cdn. That includes a billion dollars in equalization from Alberta and Sask.

Lets see if old Wab can close that gap.

LOL.

Nothing like the magic of a smaller population and a much larger resource of oil and gas to make the GDP per capita much higher.

North Dakota also has a large amount of wind power! One of the top producers in the US.

So where in the world would you find a better place to live and work that would suit your point of view and everybody would agree with you?

[jazz]

Just wondering, we’re there mail-in ballots, how was the count done, by people counting at polling stations?. I don’t care where the election- those are my questions.

[chuckChuck]

Jazz I am surprised you didn't say the election in Manitoba was stolen!

And it was the dominion voting machines! LOL

Oh yeah you forgot that On "April 18, 2023, as opening statements were about to begin, the judge announced that the parties had reached a settlement. Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million and acknowledged the court's earlier ruling that Fox had broadcast false statements about Dominion."

[sumdumguy]

We can forget about winning elections. Our goose is cooked.

[jazz]

We can forget about winning elections. Our goose is cooked.

Doesnt matter, canada is dead meet roadkill and the bones are being picked clean now.

All we can do is protect our own assets and operations using all the tools available.

Trudeau gave old Wab $750k to search an old landfill. We all know where that grift is going.

[newguy]

North Dakota per capita gdp is $112k cdn.

MB per capita gdp is $57k cdn. That includes a billion dollars in equalization from Alberta and Sask.

Lets see if old Wab can close that gap.

LOL.

comparing Manitoba to North Dakota would be like comparing your area to the south east sask area.

[chuckChuck]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-by-playing-gutter-politics-the-manitoba-pcs-deserved-to-lose/

opinion
By playing gutter politics, the Manitoba PCs deserved to lose
Marsha Lederman

Before the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives lost the election, they lost the plot. And their soul.

When you are campaigning on not searching a landfill site where police believe the remains of murdered women were buried – and what’s more, when you turn that message into an actual billboard – what does that say about your party? How debased can you be, to seek votes on the backs of dead Indigenous women?

I imagine I’m not the only one who, when first seeing the image of that sign, thought it was a photoshopped hoax. But no, it was real: “Stand firm against the unsafe $184-million landfill dig,” it screamed in all-caps, urging Manitobans to vote Progressive Conservative.

Progressive? Hardly. This message was grotesque.

The remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are believed to be buried among tonnes of waste in the Prairie Green Landfill north of Winnipeg. Police made the shocking disclosure last year when they said the women were among the four Indigenous victims of an alleged serial killer, who was also charged in the deaths of Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman who has become known as Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman.

Their families, Indigenous groups and many others have been calling for the search since those first-degree-murder charges were laid. “My family and all the other families deserve closure,” Ms. Harris’s daughter, Cambria, told The Globe and Mail last December.

The governing Manitoba PCs said the search would be dangerous, and the cost prohibitive. But they didn’t leave it at that. They campaigned on that decision with those billboards, as well as newspaper ads bearing the same message: Re-elect us, and we won’t search for the remains of these murdered women.

Politics gets dirty, frequently. But dirty like this? By a party led by a woman – who, as premier, was leading the province? And also, running against a party led by an Indigenous man?

“I don’t get into the weeds in terms of deciding what goes in our advertising,” Heather Stefanson said on Monday, the day before the election. “We have a very competent and capable campaign team.”

But these were not weeds. This was an old-growth forest, shouting shame from the treetops.

You know things must be bad when you run a different ad, in the campaign’s final weekend, with a message that basically amounted to assuring people they didn’t have to feel embarrassed for voting for the PCs. “Stand firm and vote how you feel, not how others say you should,” it said. “Vote like no one is watching.” The digital ads were quickly pulled.

This was not simply a campaign strategy fail. This was an utter failure of conscience.

There were still PC candidates with integrity. Long-time Manitoba PC Rochelle Squires called the ads “deeply regrettable.” She said that after seeing them, she took a step back from the party’s campaign and focused on her own riding (which she lost).

Ms. Myran was 26. Ms. Harris was 39. Both were from Long Plain First Nation. Their families began searching for them after they went missing in the spring of 2022. In December, police said they believed the women had been killed in the spring.

Ms. Harris was a mother of five. “She was someone who was very, very loved,” her daughter told The Globe.

Ms. Myran was remembered by her grandmother as a happy, smiley and trusting person, the CBC reported.

They were people. And the Manitoba PCs were using them – in the most degrading of ways – to try to win an election.

Thank goodness the campaign was not only offensive; it was ineffective. Ms. Stefanson stepped down as PC leader on election night, as the NDP won a majority government.

Wab Kinew will make history as Canada’s first provincial First Nations premier. Through the campaign, Mr. Kinew promised to search the landfill site for the remains of these women, and the morning after his election victory, he made it clear the search will be a priority: “This will be one of those items that we want to tackle in the very early days of our administration,” he told reporters.

Mr. Kinew, 41, was born in Kenora, Ont., to an Anishinaabe father and non-Indigenous mother. He has been open about his troubled past and how he turned his life around.

“It’s my intention to move the ball forward so that the future generation can do even more powerful things than we can imagine today,” Mr. Kinew said on Wednesday.

What a fine role model for youth – and the rest of us. His main opponent should be ashamed.
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[sumdumguy]

I would love to get my hands on one Dominion Voting Machine. Hmmm

[ajl]

he only upside to the wobbly canoe election in MB is, as others have pointed out, the kiddie diddlers moving from deadmonton to winterpeg. Not much cheating in the MB election because MB is irrelevant and loser government is reflective of a population of losers. With most making their living sucking gubmint tit there sadly. MB will be worse off 5 years from now. Unfortunately this election result strengthens, albeit only by a tiny amount, the totalitarian dictatorship in ottawa.