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streamofthesky posted...

There's no candidate from the right that's running?

There is, though the Canadian Conservative party is still generally left of the American right (PPC excepted, because they're basically the "we want Canada to be Republican" party).

streamofthesky posted...

Does Canada have our f***ing piece of s*** First Past The Post system, or do they have ranked choice or something else?

Also FPTP. The Liberals were pushing for electoral reform when they got elected in 2015, but that never came to fruition (partly because nobody could agree on a new system and partly because they stopped caring so much about reform when the existing system worked for them).

streamofthesky posted...

Just worried, the way this is being framed, it sounds like two leftist candidates splitting votes to enable a minority plurality victory by some a****** on the right...

That is generally how it goes. Left-leaning voters are split between the NDP and Liberals (though the Liberals really aren't "leftists," they're very much a centrist party), while the Conservatives have basically the entire right-leaning vote (the PPC is relatively new and does split their vote a bit, but they're too fringe to make a significant difference there). Liberals take power whenever the Conservatives have been (or seem like they will be) bad enough to motivate strategic voting and push the undecided voters left, Conservatives take power whenever strategic voting efforts are weaker and/or people aren't happy with the Liberals.

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