Congrats NB!

[wulf42]

For seeing the light and tossing out the Liberals ,today a Torie Majority in New Brunswick tomorrow it will be a Torie Majority in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/27/nbvotes-election-main-718.html#socialcomments-submit

[charter.rights]

For seeing the light and tossing out the Liberals ,today a Torie Majority in New Brunswick tomorrow it will be a Torie Majority in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/27/nbvotes-election-main-718.html#socialcomments-submit

That doesn't look good for the federal Conservatives. Traditionally when a provincial government turns conservative it means they will vote Liberal federally.

[bloodyminded]

For seeing the light and tossing out the Liberals ,today a Torie Majority in New Brunswick tomorrow it will be a Torie Majority in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nbvotes2010/story/2010/09/27/nbvotes-election-main-718.html#socialcomments-submit

We were right to toss out the Liberals.

But don't get confused between the NB Progressive Conservatives and the Federal Conservative Party.

The NB PCs are no different, ideologically, from the NB Liberals.

I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. There are no differences of principle between the two. Our Progressive conservatives are not right-wingers: they're centrists. So are our Liberals.

So, Nbers voted, with good sense, to get the current incompetents out. Job done.

There wasn't even any rancor, any heated debates among the public. Because there are no distinctions (aside from, hopefully, competence) to argue about.

Personally, I voted NDP. Hope springs eternal.

Zero seats!

Edited September 28, 2010 by bloodyminded

[wulf42]

We were right to toss out the Liberals.

But don't get confused between the NB Progressive Conservatives and the Federal Conservative Party.

The NB PCs are no different, ideologically, from the NB Liberals.

I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. There are no differences of principle between the two. Our Progressive conservatives are not right-wingers: they're centrists. So are our Liberals.

So, Nbers voted, with good sense, to get the current incompetents out. Job done.

There wasn't even any rancor, any heated debates among the public. Because there are no distinctions (aside from, hopefully, competence) to argue about.

Personally, I voted NDP. Hope springs eternal.

Zero seats!

Maybe, but it can't be good news for the Liberals when the Maritimes starts voting Conservative! You know the Liberals are in trouble when that starts to happen.

[bloodyminded]

Maybe, but it can't be good news for the Liberals when the Maritimes starts voting Conservative! You know the Liberals are in trouble when that starts to happen.

We've had our share of Liberal governments, to be sure, but voting in the Conservatives (or I should say the Progressive Conservatives) is nothing new.

For example, previous to the one-term Liberal Shawn Graham, we had a two term PC Premier, Bernard Lord.

So it's not exactly a monumental shake-up in NB politics; it's business as usual, very normal. (In fact, Lord had a bigger majority than does our new PC Premier.)

I think you're misinformed about the "Liberal" status of New Brunswick.

Unlike Alberta and Quebec, we don't adhere fanatically to partisan lines.

Edited September 28, 2010 by bloodyminded

[Evening Star]

The NB PCs are no different, ideologically, from the NB Liberals.

On another board, someone argued that the NB PCs are, if anything, a little left of the NB Liberals.

[punked]

On another board, someone argued that the NB PCs are, if anything, a little left of the NB Liberals.

I would agree. The Liberals wanted to cut taxes more then the PCs god only can know whey when NB is running Billion dollar deficits but to each their own.

[capricorn]

The Liberals wanted to cut taxes more then the PCs god only can know whey when NB is running Billion dollar deficits but to each their own.

Must have been that Liberal fiscal acumen at play again. Mere mortals such as we cannot possibly comprehend.

[Dave_ON]

We've had our share of Liberal governments, to be sure, but voting in the Conservatives (or I should say the Progressive Conservatives) is nothing new.

For example, previous to the one-term Liberal Shawn Graham, we had a two term PC Premier, Bernard Lord.

So it's not exactly a monumental shake-up in NB politics; it's business as usual, very normal. (In fact, Lord had a bigger majority than does our new PC Premier.)

I think you're misinformed about the "Liberal" status of New Brunswick.

Unlike Alberta and Quebec, we don't adhere fanatically to partisan lines.

It always amuses me when folks attempt to draw parallels between provincial and federal politics, when truly neither have anything to do with other in terms of party association.

Especially in NB which has a unique cultural divide, namely French/English that doesn't really exist anywhere else in Canada. NB has traditionally always had the opposite government in provincially that is present federally. PC Lord during the Chretien years, LPC McKenna during the Mulroney years, etc. In fact if anything this would indicate bad news for the CPC if the trend holds true.

On a side note, when I lived in NB the only truly "hard line partisans" were of a linguistic nature. In the cases that existed French tend to be LPC and English tend PC. The only real hardcore partisans that come to mind in NB would have been the CORE party, now that was an interesting party.

[Shwa]

It always amuses me when folks attempt to draw parallels between provincial and federal politics, when truly neither have anything to do with other in terms of party association.

Especially in NB which ... if anything this would indicate bad news for the CPC if the trend holds true.

What? It looks like you are drawing a parallel between provincial and federal politics.

[bloodyminded]

On a side note, when I lived in NB the only truly "hard line partisans" were of a linguistic nature. In the cases that existed French tend to be LPC and English tend PC. The only real hardcore partisans that come to mind in NB would have been the CORE party, now that was an interesting party.

Definitely. There's still some residual pieces of this group floating around...protesting Acadian flags, that sort of thing.

[Dave_ON]

What? It looks like you are drawing a parallel between provincial and federal politics.

Umm nope, I'm observing a historical trend. As mentioned if the trend holds true, not that it will, but if it does then this is in fact bad news for the CPC not good news as the OP is attempting to posit.

[jefferiah]

On another board, someone argued that the NB PCs are, if anything, a little left of the NB Liberals.

In some cases (in certain respects) I think NB Liberals have been more conservative than a lot of conservatives. Frank McKenna was pretty socially conservative. Politics here can be confusing.

[jefferiah]

The only real hardcore partisans that come to mind in NB would have been the CORE party, now that was an interesting party.

CoR Party. Confederation of Regions