r/moderatepolitics • u/feb914 • 20d ago

[Canada] Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau's cabinet News Article

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/finance-minister-chrystia-freeland-resigns-from-trudeau-s-cabinet-1.7411380
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u/BaguetteFetish 20d ago

As a Canadian(who lives in Ontario specifically) part of the reason Doug Ford got re-elected here despite a number of corruption scandals is that

1) Enthusiastically worked with the Liberal government on Covid response, and handled it reasonably well

2) The provincial Liberals and NDP are extremely weak opponents. the NDP because of their ties to the unpopular federal NDP and the Liberals both because of their their ties to the feds, and because of the disliked Liberal premier who preceded him(Kathleen Wynne).

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u/AxiomaticSuppository 20d ago edited 20d ago

Doug Ford got re-elected with only 17.7% of the electorate voting for him. (Voter Turnout Percentage * Percentage of Ballots Cast For Doug = 43.5% * 40.8% = 17.7%).

edit: It's absurd that the people responding to me are trying to pretend that record low voter turnout, or Doug being elected with ~17% of the electorate voting for him, is indicative of a healthy democracy and a signal that people are actually happy with the current government. 🤦‍♂️

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u/BaguetteFetish 20d ago

And yet he won, and was never in serious danger of losing the provincial election. The numbers youre providing dont tell the full story. What percentage of the electorate voted for the liberals or ndp?

Which suggests he's more popular than his opponents by a significant margin.

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u/AxiomaticSuppository 20d ago edited 20d ago

40.8% voted for Doug. That means 59.2% voted against Doug. That most certainly means that he's less popular than his opponents combined, contrary to your claim. And please don't bother responding with some hot-take about how individually the parties are less popular. NDP and Liberals are center/left parties, and in anything but First Past the Post Doug would have lost, or in the case of proportional representation, would not have gotten a majority.