🤣🤣 He deserves it #Notsorry Poilievre is toxic More than 100 candidates — most in Canadian history — to run against Poilievre in byelection #Canada 108 candidates have registered so far, beating the previous record of 91 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
🤣🤣 He deserves it #Notsorry Poilievre is toxic More than 100 candidates — most in Canadian history — to run against Poilievre in byelection #Canada 108 candidates have registered so far, beating the previous record of 91 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How many are named "Pierre Polievre", to confuse voters?
The choice is clear Battle River - Crowfoot, Alberta: Vote Bonnie Critchley. She served our great nation, and wants to again. 😎🇨🇦💪👊 Boot defeated freeloader poilievre. He’s a fraud and loser who only serves himself. 🥾👎
Just helping bring attention to Bonnie Critchley here. She's running against PP and an actual resident of Battle River - Crowfoot. Not parachuted in or anything: bsky.app/profile/bonn...
What exactly does this accomplish besides being a giant pita for voters?
Accomplishes nothing.
They are protesting our first past the post system, but it does nothing but slow everything down and discourage people from voting. I’m never sad when bad things happen to PP, but this protest hurts everyone
He didn't have a problem with it when they targeted Liberal by-elections. So...
The two faces of PP. A terrible human being
He's the worst person in Canadian politics in my lifetime.
Remember who is pulling the strings. Pp is a creation of Stephen Harper. Not to take any of the responsibility off pp. It was a perfect fit. The IDU is bad.
Oh don't get me wrong, Harper is evil, but PP is all that AND nasty, petulant, vile, rude, narcissistic, cruel, selfish...
Like Harper, who even tried to keep his Evangelical faith a secret, what a lying pos.
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EXACTLY!!
Maybe someone ought to tell him that the PM doesn't have an official mansion just now-
That’s great and all,as far as so many people showing up to oppose Poilievre, though I don’t see how this hurts his chances. It most likely helps him.
It will help him. Critchley might have had a chance, but she'll be buried in that list. PP is more recognizable.
OMG, this'll be so much fun, wish I could be there just to listen to what the locals have to say, interesting stuff for sure.
Poilievre had to have his wife accompany him into the voting booth in Carleton when the ballot was only at 91 candidates. With possibly 200 candidates by the time the #BattleRiverCrowfoot list is finalized will he have additional people in the voting booth to help him find his own name?
I assume neither PP nor Ana will be able to cast votes because they're not residents of Battle River Crowfoot.
This is true and all the more reason why the people of #BattleRiverCrowfoot should not be even considering him as a candidate. He's no better than all the other Independents who are on the ballot who don't live in the riding. He's not serious about representing the riding. Bonnie Critchley is.
I'm sorry to see that CPC supporters are so rigid.
Which in itself is ILLEGAL. How he was allowed to have a person in the booth without repercussions is beyond me. We are continuously dealing with two sets of rules, and Pierre continues to flaunt that he is above our rules. Really he should be taken behind the shed, but we don’t do that anymore.
Neither he nor is wife showed I.D. when registering to vote and getting their ballots.
*his* wife
Staged photgraph?
Actually, over 5 minutes of filming by CPAC www.cpac.ca/leaders-tour...
Why is there a cross at that 'polling station'? Do they have polling stations in churches?
They do have polling stations in church halls.
Ok. I would prefer there be a clearer divide between church and state, and polling stations be in more neutral locations. I'm pretty sure they staged the angle of the pic to make sure it was clearly visible. PP has played up the religious stuff before.
I get your meaning, but Elections Canada regularly uses churches and faith-based buildings as polling places since they’re often accessible, central, and spacious. There are rules, though: no political, partisan, or religious messaging can be visible that might influence voters.
That's why I found the visible cross to be a concern. I suspect the photo is all faked for that reason and that they're at the ballot box together. It's nothing more than another one of his ploys.
Nah...the cross is clearly permanently installed on the wall of the church. It's not like they can disguise the fact it's a church. I completely understand where you're coming from but I don't think it's anything concerning, personally.
Polling stations are in schools, recreations centres, Legion Halls, churches etc. You are there to vote, not to take a course, play basketball, drink beer or worship. I don't believe CPAC, who did the filming, stages anything for Poilievre.
Yes there are voting stations at churches & you are right. There shouldn’t be. Religious organizations are driving right wing extremism in Canada & there’s no way they should be used in any way for an election. Our polling station is a church. I vote at advanced polls which are not at church.
Ours was in the church hall.
Yes, quite often. I was a DRO in the last federal election. In a church.
Talk about the guy that can’t read the room. This is all about power and greed, he has been told by the people to go away, yet he is still here. Again we have a record of candidates in a riding broken, both ridings against him. I EXPECT him to have to pay us back for the cost of his Ego and Greed.
Wow.
I think PP is worried, he asked for Election Canada to require 1,000 signatures (100 presently) per candidates.🤣 Ms. Critchley said the people in the riding are not happy by the denial of their choice by the CPC. 😂
I would like him to ride off a cliff, I mean into the sunset, never to be heard from again. What a colossal turd he is. We deserve competent opposition. It keeps everyone more honest.
This will certainly hurt his main opponent the most.
Send the smarmy little shitweasel back to Ottawa to pack up and move out of the house he's squatting in
I don't really get the strategy of this Confused 🤷🏻♀️
Same. If ten people vote for every other name on the list, but PP gets 20 votes, then he'll win. (obviously, I hope he loses, but you never know)
I don’t believe that there is a strategy, unless things have changed. It’s just a protest against our voting system. It’s unfortunate that some voters (elderly and dyslexic come to mind) will have a hard time with such a long and confusing ballot when voting.
Their end goal is electoral reform by causing mass confusion.
Ahhhhh Doesn't come across that way whatsoever...
In my LaSalle-Emard-Verdun riding by-election in 2024, 91 names were on the ballot & for that reason accessibility tools such as a braille list of candidates & voting template were only available on voting day & not at advance polls or Elections Canada offices. Smacks of voter suppression to me.
Didn't know it equally happened in Quebec... It's just ridiculous
A lack of accessibility like that when it comes to voting, IMO, is a form of voter suppression. I get the need for electoral reform. There are other ways of going about it. If door-to-door doesn't work then maybe do an e-petition. It'd also help if the LBC weren't so damn smug about their process.
Some rich kid frat bro douchebags are abusing the system to show that the system can be abused.
Didn't it start off as a protest against first-past-the-post? Regardless of its origin or the delicious impact of depressing the vote for the scumbag PP, it's straight up abuse and has lost meaningful purpose.
😂😂😂 Epic!
That dilutes support for a stong candidate against him
Is diluting with candidates going to impact who gets the most? Isn't that the goal is to have 1 candidate out vote him? Just asking
My understanding is that the group who did this to him in the election is also behind this. One of their objectives is election reform.
In the OSHOW interview I reposted earlier, independent candidate Bonnie Critchley says this tactic is hurting her as she is the only independent who is actually running for office and she gets lost in a sea of over 100 'independents'. I recommend listening to the interview.
It's a great interview. I have so much respect for her after listening to her stance on issues.
She is not a practiced speaker but she speaks from her heart. Unlike the man she is running against, you know she cares about the people of that region and means what she says. Honesty in politicians is a rare commodity.
Hehahahouha heh. Heh heh heh
ICYMBI youtu.be/Xuk_zIVax8g?...
It was a very good interview. Nothing pretentious nor off-putting about Bonnie Critchley.
@laura-babcock.bsky.social
Bonnie is concerned her name will get buried in the list ☹️ of protesters
Too bad they aren't registered as Piere Polievre, Pierrrre Pollieve, Peerrr Pollivre, etc. That would make it more hilarious and ridiculous.😏
Or Peter Poilievre, or Jeff Farrell
Or Pierre Pepper, or just some guy named Jeff from Stornoway lol
Team Canada is showing up in droves to end a Heritage Foundation evil puppet takeover. TaTa PP.
WOW! That’s amazing! Hoping for a candidate who is worthy of the Canadian People 😊.
I heard he was having a Trump like meltdown because there's too many candidates on the ballot
He and Danielle Smith are already deep into an Astronomer-level affair because under his policies, his wife will get deported.
So, of course we'll hear, "The Liberals are rigging the election again"... yet if Poilievre is successful and wins, the rhetoric will change to, Pierre won because the people of Alberta love him". 🙄
I’m not a fan of these ridiculous protests. They make everything more difficult for voters and returning officers. It absolutely discourages people from voting
At least the entertainment value will be high. But that's about it.
Not a good idea, it splits the vote against him. What is needed is one attractive independent candidate toe unite the vote against him
That's @bonniecritchley.bsky.social
While a legal stunt this needs to change Its not seriosse candidates just harming voters and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each time And we dont really know who the brothers with Russian sounding names really are ! No one does
Way to go Albertans!
This is one byelection when they all should sit out. Don’t need a bunch of random options to water things down. Also it’s a stupid movement.
People cheering this movement trying to confuse voters with false candidates need to think twice. This waters down democracy; it does not improve it. It doesn’t have predictable results and shouldn’t!
There is no or little democracy in Alberta. Let the unpredictable results reign. It's only PP after all. He's gonna win so why not have some fun in Daniellesmithtown.
I disagree, if they're serious (like Bonnie) they'll advertise, knock doors, participate in debates, get to know the peeps of their riding. But voters are not kids, they need to participate in democracy as much as the candidate. This shows them they need to vet candidates & vote with thoughtfulness
I see your point but, thus far, all it seems to have achieved in other ridings is to increase the workload of election officials, delay the tallying of votes, and water down the messages that serious qualified candidates are trying to get out.
The Alberta MAGA-base is threatening those who run against PP. Bonnie had to suspend door knocking due to the threats
Spainer suspended door to door. Didn't hear that Critchley did?
It was announced on Global News at 6:27 in the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyn8...
I find this tricky in this race because there is a viable independent candidate running and it is going to make finding her on the ballot hard for some people. I think this was a good protest in Carlton but they should sit this one out.
I agree. The slight positive is that the ballots list candidates alphabetically, which will put her near the top; and PP (likely) way down the list. Also, it’s a tiny riding so hopefully the electors are PO’d enough to vote, collectively, to keep PP out.
It covers a huge area. Close to 60,000 km sq with a population density of roughly 2 people per km sq. It’s a tough region to reach every person. Spotty cell service too
😆🤞
This election, could be won with under a thousand votes. 😁
I admire their efforts to draw attention to our flawed voting system but it makes it harder for some voters to find the name of a legitimate candidate. Fanjoy ran into this. The party logo is there but it's a long and large list.
This helps him win.
It may or may not, remember there was a long list of candidates in Ottawa-Carlton and he lost. enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDis...
This is different. There is a strong center right independent candidate that would otherwise take votes from him. But now she’s lost in the list because she doesn’t have a party name with her name. If people can’t quite remember her name, they won’t find her.
This method is great for bad guys, really awful when the DNC did this to Bernie Sanders in 16 & 20. In Cali, Biden had 12% and Bernie had 31% of the primary vote so it's not a big surprise how that eventually played out years later.
Is he still living in subsidized housing???
Yes
One of the other 100 candidates should use that as an attack line. His 20+ years of living off the public dime with little to show for it, is what people are complaining about. Even his own party has planned his replacement.
Frickin idiot
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ALL are part of a right wing plot to confuse and dilute the ballot. Happened here in my riding… the Con got in anyway… the other parties…. The REAL ones lost votes to the gibberish.
The people who think this long ballot crap is legitimate are the same people that would steal your shit if you forgot to lock your door. #cdnpoli
Deep down, Pierre likes it. It gives him another reason to play his victim card. "Feel sorry for me. I'm just an honest guy who got screwed by the workers I pretended to support."
Most of these candidates are engineered by the PP Campaign. The 91 'previous record' was in Carleton against Fanjoy, PPs last losing endeavor. Its ratfucking, plain and simple.
He does but these long ballots should not be allowed when 80% of the candidates have the same campaign manager and signatures to get them on the ballot.
Yeah I agree this isnt a farce this is important. Cant have 80 Ross Perots just wasting space
Skippy: forgotten but not gone
PP dreams about being PM. Not a MP, no security clearance & no seat at the negotiation table. So is clueless & not saying anything valid. 🇨🇦 deserves good government, including a good Opposition. 🇨🇦 deserves better than PP. Vote Bonnie in Battle River- Crowfoot for honest representation in Ottawa.
The people who are whining don’t understand politics. It’s a protest to first past the post. It’s in P.P.’s second try at getting a seat (loser) b/c it has the most exposure. It would have been PMMC too but, not enough time. My friend voted in his last riding and she found her candidate.
LMAO. Scumbag
People certainly need to know the name of the independent candidate they are voting for. One registered Independent @bonniecritchley is a genuine candidate
Bonnie Critchley is who the long ballot bros are hurting, as intended.
Over 43000 voters in Carleton were able to find Bruce Fanjoy’s name to beat PP by over 4000 votes even with 91 names on the ballot. Surely the voters in Battle River Crowfoot can find Bonnie Chritchley’s name on the long ballot. She’s the best candidate to work for their constituency.
Yes 🥰
…and Chrichley’s family name begins with a C so it shouldn’t be too far down the list.
🎯 🎉
Yeah, but the problem she's having is that a lot of people think she's just another protest vote, so they don't think they should vote for her. She doesn't have a huge budget to get the word out. She needs an army of volunteers going out and telling people that she's a serious candidate.
Yes, #Vote for and donate to excellent local candidate, Bonnie Critchley @bonniecritchley.bsky.social in #BattleRiverCrowfoot riding against PP. Bonnie Critchley (remember that name and VOTE) is a Canadian military veteran, advocate, straight shooter. www.bonniecritchleyindependent.com/donate
PP dreams about being PM. Not a MP, no security clearance & no seat at the negotiation table. So is clueless & not saying anything valid. 🇨🇦 deserves good government, including a good Opposition. 🇨🇦 deserves better than PP. Vote Bonnie in Battle River- Crowfoot for honest representation in Ottawa.
Omg hahahahaha! So if they each get like ten votes he's sunk?
Yep
I wonder if he loses will he demand another MP to red shirt and become a lobbyist…
Impressive and illustrates the disdain towards what is happening. With this many candidates, won’t that pull votes away from a legit opponent to PP? IS there a legit opponent?
Yes, Bonnie Critchley.
Yes. I’m impressed with her. She’s smart, articulate and really really pissed.
Who would have thought that pierre is a canadian unifier for people against him.
We need ranked ballots just so he will get rank 109 LMAO
I hope 12 of them are named Pierre....
There is only one Pierre listed as a candidate: www.elections.ca/Scripts/vis/...
I hope that voters stop at Bonnie Critchley, place an x and call it a day. 🤞🏽
I hope so too.
Bummer
I get the issues but the good people in that riding deserve a fair vote And they- re all who really matter Not outside interests nor crazy politicking nor even choose agents People there deserve a clean honest vote This is not that white legal
Or Jeff. And wear bigger cowboy hats. And dont wear them backwards. 😆
Muskrat wore his cowboy hat backwards too, funny.
Glad to hear there’s more now!
He’s only concerned now because it affects him personally. Where was the indignation when it happened in liberal strongholds, or his previous Carleton riding - the one he was sure was an automatic win.
Exactly.