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Sep. 18th, 2007 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusWell, if you read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
montrealais's journal or read/listen to the Montreal news, you know it already -- the NDP won a landslide victory in Outremont (about 4400 votes).
Brigitte Sansoucy deserves recognition for obtaining 8% in the St-Hyacinthe election, a very rural riding. Until recently, the NDP had trouble making those numbers even in urban Quebec.
For those of you outside the Canadian political loop, this is only the second time the NDP has won in this province -- which is frustrating because it's one of the two most left-wing provinces in the country. But here, the left wing has long been associated with the movement to separate Quebec from Canada, and the NDP is a left-wing federalist party.
As the Quebec separation movement is losing ground, the NDP is becoming more and more of a viable alternative in this province. People are willing to give us a chance, in spite of the Greek chorus of media pundit naysayers who are saying it'll never happen.
montrealais deserves a round of applause, since he's been working tirelessly on the campaign. I've scarcely seen him in the last month.
I helped out a bit on the last day, doing "inside scrutineering" (watching the ballot-counting), plus a little of the door-to-door stuff.
ETA: Oh, and I forgot to mention than with this election, independent John C. Turmel got into the Guiness Book of World Records for most elections fought and lost -- 65 since 1979, as of this past one. He's devout Christian, a self-described "professional gambler," and the last living member of Canada's once-powerful Social Credit Movement. He got 30 votes.
montrealais's journal or read/listen to the Montreal news, you know it already -- the NDP won a landslide victory in Outremont (about 4400 votes).Brigitte Sansoucy deserves recognition for obtaining 8% in the St-Hyacinthe election, a very rural riding. Until recently, the NDP had trouble making those numbers even in urban Quebec.
For those of you outside the Canadian political loop, this is only the second time the NDP has won in this province -- which is frustrating because it's one of the two most left-wing provinces in the country. But here, the left wing has long been associated with the movement to separate Quebec from Canada, and the NDP is a left-wing federalist party.
As the Quebec separation movement is losing ground, the NDP is becoming more and more of a viable alternative in this province. People are willing to give us a chance, in spite of the Greek chorus of media pundit naysayers who are saying it'll never happen.
montrealais deserves a round of applause, since he's been working tirelessly on the campaign. I've scarcely seen him in the last month. I helped out a bit on the last day, doing "inside scrutineering" (watching the ballot-counting), plus a little of the door-to-door stuff.
ETA: Oh, and I forgot to mention than with this election, independent John C. Turmel got into the Guiness Book of World Records for most elections fought and lost -- 65 since 1979, as of this past one. He's devout Christian, a self-described "professional gambler," and the last living member of Canada's once-powerful Social Credit Movement. He got 30 votes.
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Date: 2007-09-19 08:28 pm (UTC).... personally I would have given up a long time ago. If nothing else I must commend his persistence.
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Date: 2007-09-19 11:29 pm (UTC)I wonder if anyone else in Canada has been sentenced to play the accordion?