It will go Canada wide in terms of the leaders of every political party. The next time someone suggests a snap election for opportunistic reasons, someone will say “let’s not pull an Eby!”
There was an election in Saskatchewan (I think? it was a very long time ago) many decades ago under similar circumstances with a similar result. I heard about it in my Poli Sci class in the Maritimes a few decades after it happened. I guess eventually people forgot about that (it was a very long time ago) and covid might’ve had something to do with it. There were a bunch of snap elections which increased the number of seats for the governing party. There was some justification for those through, the governments didn’t really have a mandate to do all the lockdowns they were doing, so calling an election wasn’t totally out of line, even if we know the parties were most likely doing it because of good polling number.
Though when Trudeau did it, there wasn’t any change, which should’ve been a big clue for Eby. Now with Eby taking a massive L, it seems Canadian politics is going back to the norm of parties being punished if they use their power to call elections in opportunistic ways.
More like a silver lining. 😄 Don’t know if it’ll go Canada-wide but it’s definitely going to resonate within the BC NDP.
It will go Canada wide in terms of the leaders of every political party. The next time someone suggests a snap election for opportunistic reasons, someone will say “let’s not pull an Eby!”
There was an election in Saskatchewan (I think? it was a very long time ago) many decades ago under similar circumstances with a similar result. I heard about it in my Poli Sci class in the Maritimes a few decades after it happened. I guess eventually people forgot about that (it was a very long time ago) and covid might’ve had something to do with it. There were a bunch of snap elections which increased the number of seats for the governing party. There was some justification for those through, the governments didn’t really have a mandate to do all the lockdowns they were doing, so calling an election wasn’t totally out of line, even if we know the parties were most likely doing it because of good polling number.
Though when Trudeau did it, there wasn’t any change, which should’ve been a big clue for Eby. Now with Eby taking a massive L, it seems Canadian politics is going back to the norm of parties being punished if they use their power to call elections in opportunistic ways.