You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
Vancouver Off-Topic / Current EventsThe off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum.
Jagmeet Singh is the next leader of the federal New Democratic Party of Canada, taking more than the 50 per cent of the votes in the party's federal leadership contest.
In total 65,782 votes were cast, with Singh taking 35,266 on the first ballot.
The Ontario provincial politician beat northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus who won 12,705 votes, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton who won 11,374 votes and Quebec MP Guy Caron who won 6,164 votes to claim the federal NDP's top job.
Speaking after his election win, Singh said the party owed a debt to the former leader Tom Mulcair who Singh credited with helping the party through a difficult time after the passing of Jack Layton.
Singh also thanked all of the campaign teams that helped him and the other candidates in the race.
"None of this would have been possible without my colleagues in the leadership race," Singh said.
Meet Jagmeet Singh: Sikh lawyer, martial artist and new NDP leader
3 lessons from races past as NDP prepares to name its new leader
The Ontario provincial politician beat northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus, Manitoba MP Niki Ashton and Quebec MP Guy Caron to claim the federal NDP's top job.
A new leader will allow the party to wipe the slate clean and begin re-energizing its base of support, motivate demoralized staff members and get back on the political map, NDP strategist Kathleen Monk told the Canadian Press before the vote.
"They will get to hire their own people," she said. "It is a clear break from some of the inertia that has been happening."
While Angus, 54, is a household name among party loyalists and a fixture in the House of Commons. Singh, 38, represents a younger, more suburban wing of the party.
Repaying party debt
Peggy Nash, a 2012 leadership candidate and former MP, said the naming of a new leader is the perfect time to turn to the myriad other significant challenges the party is facing — many of them financial.
According to Elections Canada, the NDP is carrying $5.5 million worth of debt, and its fundraising mojo has been virtually non-existent.
"Knit together the teams that may have supported different candidates," Nash said. "Get out there and build the party and restore our voice as the legitimate voice of progressive Canadians."
More than 124,000 card-carrying members were eligible to vote for the new leader, either online or by mail. The ballot was preferential, meaning voters ranked all four candidates in their preferred order.
Advertisement
__________________ Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Nice !! A young Sikh to bring some much needed diversity to Canadian politics. Well done NDP. Too bad you won't have a chance in hell to ever win the federal majority.
All the political function this guy attends will require a veg option then.
I'd say our current pm won the top job with style over substance, so I'd hardly consider it an impediment. They're going to have trouble finding success in Quebec again with him though.
reads most threads with his pants around his ankles, especially in the Forced Induction forum.
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,645
Thanked 2,191 Times in 1,131 Posts
Failed 929 Times in 340 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by GS8
NDP died with Layton. Make NDP relevant again.
Need to see more than a two-party rivalry by the next election.
To be honest who ever is in power next election is going to have to clean up after Trudeau's mess. Unless of course Trudeau won again then well more spending!
Quite surprised to learn that he is only 38. I would have thought he is much older.
Quote:
Originally Posted by RRxtar
The only success the NDP has tasted was due to Layton's charisma perfectly timed with the Liberals being in-between before Trudeau became leader.
Arguably, the upcoming election in 2 years could set to become a fantastic chance for the NDP to step up their game. From what I can tell, people are increasingly discovering how inept JT is shaping up to be, and noticing how he is all flair and no substance. Scheer also seem rather unpopular among a large portion of the general public. So if people are looking for an alternative, Singh and the NDP could potentially fill that role.
reads most threads with his pants around his ankles, especially in the Forced Induction forum.
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,645
Thanked 2,191 Times in 1,131 Posts
Failed 929 Times in 340 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by Traum
Quite surprised to learn that he is only 38. I would have thought he is much older.
Arguably, the upcoming election in 2 years could set to become a fantastic chance for the NDP to step up their game. From what I can tell, people are increasingly discovering how inept JT is shaping up to be, and noticing how he is all flare and no substance. Scheer also seem rather unpopular among a large portion of the general public. So if people are looking for an alternative, Singh and the NDP could potentially fill that role.
Well a lot of people voted for JT on the fact that he will make marijuana legal in canada and also for his good looks. Now you have a lot of small/medium business complaining about his tax reforms which will hurt them and cause people to lose their jobs. BUT HEY comes next year marijuana legal in canada and you can smoke it all you want, but wait you don't have a job so you can actually afford it.
Well a lot of people voted for JT on the fact that he will make marijuana legal in canada and also for his good looks. Now you have a lot of small/medium business complaining about his tax reforms which will hurt them and cause people to lose their jobs. BUT HEY comes next year marijuana legal in canada and you can smoke it all you want, but wait you don't have a job so you can actually afford it.
It's such a piss off when people had voted for his looks. I know people in their 20's and 30's who don't give a rats ass about politics and only voted JT because they saw his image and thought "oh cool, young guy!" while women in the same boat went "I'd rather look at him than an old guy".
They should make dumb people vote with no names on a ballot, just a couple of their main selling points.
Its unfortunate that a lot of people will judge him for his turban and beard and not for his words
An open display of religion in a secular country by one of its potential leaders. Anyone who values the separation of church and state would understandably object to that, or at the very least want assurances that his beliefs won't trump reality or Canadians. The same objections from this group would be made of any candidate of any other faith who made his/her beliefs known. The far left will be quick to label them as bigots. The far right will be quick to embrace them as nationalists.
It's such a piss off when people had voted for his looks. I know people in their 20's and 30's who don't give a rats ass about politics and only voted JT because they saw his image and thought "oh cool, young guy!" while women in the same boat went "I'd rather look at him than an old guy".
They should make dumb people vote with no names on a ballot, just a couple of their main selling points.
Or people were fed up with the Conservatives bullshit and also didn't want to vote for Mulcair.
Or people were fed up with the Conservatives bullshit and also didn't want to vote for Mulcair.
I don't think this voting mentality is wrong at all. Harper had been in power for too long, and had been acting more like a dictator than a democratically elected leader in a lot of different ways. So at the time, the best way to get rid of him (and the Conservatives) was to vote JT/Liberals. Voting for Mulcair carries too high a risk of not being able to get Harper out of the office.
Then again, with JT's highly left-leaning tendencies, I wonder how different our national policies would be if NDP / Mulcair had won the election...
Thoughts on how he danced around this question? Same old 2-bit politician trying to appease certain members of his base by not committing to any actions.
Anyone who values the separation of church and state would understandably object to that, or at the very least want assurances that his beliefs won't trump reality or Canadians.
Won't condemn a religiously motivated terrorist who killed Canadians and who also just happens to share the religion of the openly religious NDP leader? Not very assuring so far.
Thoughts on how he danced around this question? Same old 2-bit politician trying to appease certain members of his base by not committing to any actions.
right , guys is hoping for sikh votes as most are sympathetic to the cause.
that said he just lost mine.
Won't condemn a religiously motivated terrorist who killed Canadians and who also just happens to share the religion of the openly religious NDP leader? Not very assuring so far.
There were 329 victims pulled from the sea that day, over 6 times the deaths that happened in Vegas. We talk about gun control in the aftermath of that tragedy, yet even the gov't at the time was afraid of being labelled racist and lacked the courage to face the issue of militants inside our own borders.
it's all kinds of baffling..... but hey, congrats to the new leader, right?
*I'm pretty sure he's not a militant. I'm just making a point. That said, if he can prove to be the best candidate, he would have my vote.
I love how the left seems to think, with no evidence whatsoever, that all races and genders must be represented in all aspects of life by their precise population. Otherwise prejudice.
Couldn't possibly be other factors involved.
I have no doubt he'll win a federal election either. Riding on manifested discrimination and guilt. Conflated with the fact that unlike JT, he has 'firsthand' experience.
The Canadian Obama
__________________
Gold is the money of kings;
Silver is the money of gentlemen;
Barter is the money of peasants;
But debt is the money of slaves.
-Norm Franz
Won't condemn a religiously motivated terrorist who killed Canadians and who also just happens to share the religion of the openly religious NDP leader? Not very assuring so far.
Roman catholic church molested 10's of thousands of children around the world including Canada yet I don't see christian politicians condemning the pope.
Even forced his wife to wear a hijab.
__________________ Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
