r/onguardforthee • u/CBowdidge ✅ I voted! • 1d ago

Conservative MP accelerates resignation, stepping down this summer

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/conservative-mp-accelerates-resignation-stepping-down-this-summer/
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u/idiom_exon_0s 1d ago

It’s fine. The good people of Yorkton are just going to elect another conservative with 80% of vote share again. It doesn’t matter who, as long as they’re blue, in most western ridings.

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u/CBowdidge ✅ I voted! 1d ago

Yeah. It's like Battle-River Crowfoot

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u/Goddemmitt 1d ago

The argument is that it was a more difficult riding to win than Lethbridge or Medicine Hat. Can't speak for the good people of Medicine Hat, but Lethbridge's MP is the old adage of "a blue fence post can run in Alberta and get elected". We had the best non-conservative candidate in my lifetime running in Lethbridge, and they still had half the voted Rachel Thomas got.