3mo ago

Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/ottawa/canada-federal-election-2025-carleton-pierre-poilievre-results-1.7515695

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

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Time to post this on r/Canada!
- Heads are going to explode.
- Oh man, I almost want to go look. Someone post a screenshot.
- MetaCanada in shambles.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy, now he can retire
- Yup. Him and his pension he's been building up since his 20s.
  
  but voted to increase the retirement age for the rest of us
What happens when a party leader doesn't get elected in their riding but their party wins the majority?
- He still gets to be party leader, but he cannot sit in Parliament. There are two remedies for this. First, the party can choose a new leader from their elected MPs. Second, they can have an MP in a "safe" riding step down and then ask the government for a special by-election in that riding.
  
  Yeah, they'll probably just parachute him into an Alberta riding. We're not rid of him yet.
  
  It is not legally necessary for ministers, even the PM, to be members of parliament, though it's considered an effective necessity. Once one ruled from senate.
  
  That's what I thought, but I wasn't 100% certain. My girlfriend was asking. She's a French immigrant who's been a citizen since fairly recently and she was wondering.
  
  Would be a shame if another party overspends to defeat him in that race too.
  But in all seriousness, it might be beneficial for the new government for PP to stay on. He's deeply unpopular and it seems he's unable to change that. O'Toole would have swept this election all else being equal. Of course there's the risk of losing the next election to PP if things go really sideways for the new government.
- He seems very personable even though there's like no information on his background at all, only that he worked in business and marketing, and he lives in a carbon neutral home he built himself. I actually really like when random regular folks get elected rather than businessmen or lawyers or whatall, as I find they tend to be really honest and actually do the job. I look forward to see what he does.
You love to see it!
I read this headline three times as 'topless', and got confused every time.

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