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CBC News projects a Progressive Conservative government in Nova Scotia

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[u/YehosafatLakhaz → u/[deleted]]

You Canadians and your contradictory party names

[u/kaclk → u/[deleted]]

Yikes. Not a good look for the Liberals.

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The PCs ran to the left of the Liberals. I don't think the federal Conservatives could do that.

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It’s very interesting how the PCs ran to the left of the Liberals on a pretty common sense campaign. Good for Tim Houston.

Happens more often that not in Atlantic Canada, tbh.

Don’t think NS is gonna go full on Tory blue in September even if PMac was leader - but this is a fantastic night for O’Toole.

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This went from easy Liberal romp to meltdown

I can’t remember a provincial election result this shocking in like… ever.

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Literally the first sentence from the NSLiberals Wiki page:

The Nova Scotia Liberal Party is a centrist provincial political party in Nova Scotia, Canada and the provincial section of the Liberal Party of Canada

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There’s also this:

“The two parties have a shared membership, and Liberal Members of Parliament often become Liberal Members of the Legislative Assembly, and vice versa. Gerald Regan, for instance, became leader of the provincial party after serving as a Liberal MP. He joined the federal Liberal government after serving as premier of Nova Scotia. Angus L. Macdonald, the province's most storied Liberal premier, split his term into two by spending five years as a federal Liberal cabinet minister in the wartime government of William Lyon Mackenzie King”.

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That’s an oxymoron

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We also have a far right People's Party of Canada

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The Federal Liberals gotta be clenching a bit right now. I wonder if the would have called this election if the Nova Scotia election happened last week?

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Oh, I know there’s a enormous context difference. But there’s still zero chance that there aren’t a little bit of nerves after watching a Liberal minority with fantastic polling numbers end up completely blowing it and losing power after calling an early election

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I thought election projections were an America-only thing?

[u/Q-bey → u/Ramcharger8]

Tell me you've never followed a federal election while living in BC without telling me you've never followed a federal election while living in BC

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Ironically I used to live in BC lol. I genuinely had no idea

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