It's bad enough that Canadians have the memories of goldfish and will re-elect debt-accumulating scumbags who use various ploys to discredit their opponents but that parties themselves railroad viable candidates proves only that this tribal system has had its day. It is time to run independents:
In the end, Lewis attracted an astonishing number of votes for a candidate who entered the race with zero profile. When Derek Sloan, the other social conservative in the race, dropped off the ballot first, the vast majority of his second-choice support went to Lewis. At that point, she actually had more overall votes than Erin O’Toole and Peter MacKay did.
But Lewis finished in third place because of the electoral point system, where all ridings are weighted equally. She won the province of Saskatchewan, but Saskatchewan only has 14 ridings. She finished far back in Quebec, which has 78 ridings. Her support was just too concentrated in the West.
Having come so close is a tough way to lose, Outhouse said. “It’s kind of like losing a hockey game by one goal instead of five,” he said. “When you lose by five, you’re like, well, there’s nothing we could really do about it.”
Still, it was an enormously successful campaign, and Lewis appears set for a bright future in the party once she decides where she’ll run in the next election.
Run as an independent before MP Girl Name does you in and he will do it before leftist Canadians resort to the ugliest of the bigoted natures.
It's the knife that you don't expect that hurts the most.
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