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Michael Hardner:
Let's face it... some provinces are just... "other"...
New Brunswick, I have seen it written as the province everyone forgets when naming them. Still, they had an election:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_general_election,_2018
3 Greens elected 3 populist redneck whatsit party elected ... basically a dead heat election in NB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick_general_election,_2018
cybercoma:
A lot of people don't realize that PANB is a populist right-wing party. They just think they're some grass-roots third alternative. They're going to find out quickly what the party actually stands for. This election is yet another example of why FPTP is broken.
cybercoma:
If you look at the riding-by-riding results, you'll notice that a lot of them were battles between PCs and PANBs which demonstrates that people in this province really had no clue what PANB is.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4470266/new-brunswick-election-day-results/
SirJohn:
--- Quote from: cybercoma on September 25, 2018, 08:27:50 am ---A lot of people don't realize that PANB is a populist right-wing party. They just think they're some grass-roots third alternative. They're going to find out quickly what the party actually stands for. This election is yet another example of why FPTP is broken.
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I don't understand your point. They had 12.5% of the vote and got 3/49 seats. If we had proportional rep they'd still have gotten 12.5% of the vote but a lot more seats. Is that your preference? Anyway, it sounds like you don't like them. Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Alliance_of_New_Brunswick
Squidward von Squidderson:
It was a mistake not to amalgamate the Atlantic provinces... so much duplication of government and services for four provinces with the population of 2.3 million people... less than the population of greater Vancouver.
It would be unpalatable to do now, of course... the Consitution would need changing, for one. Also, people get emotionally invested in “their” homeland. Try telling someone from PEI that they’re the same as a Newfoundlander or Nova Scotian.
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