Canada Votes 2019: Election Night Special

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[stupididioticchannel]

Why am I watching a Canadian election at 11:04 on a Saturday in America?

[wanderingkernel]

6:52:44
The biggest lie any politician has ever told.

[myau_cat]

2:35:08 OMG literally the funniest line of the whole night! LOL

[johnnyballenatl]

1:39:26 — *PETER (you can’t have a Canadian general election without him)

[larryye]

3:39:35 Liberal Government Call
3:51:16 Liberal Minority Government Call

[andreystarenky]

I really wish they released the edit at 2:27:00 it was so smooth, loved it! Can't find it anywhere or the song

[teachersradio]

Thank you CBS team for keeping us updated throughout the Election Night. Merci beaucoup.

[tobiasfrost]

Was awesome to hear maxime lose his seats

[TheWolfwiththeDragon]

7:12:31 As someone who is Swedish, which is a country where turnout during the last election was 87% and where 28% of the votes gives you 28% of the seats, it always baffles me that I can see so many countries (particularly those who were at one point British including Canada, USA, India and Britain itself) have a system where you can win the popular vote but get such a disproportionate number of seats that you lose anyway, and who sees a turnout of 65% or even less.

I feel like the only reason people put up with this is because that's the only one they've ever known and they feel scared of changing it. Or that the people in charge feel scared of changing it. I mean, the big parties drove a massive campaign in the UK to get people to vote no during the Alternative Vote referendum, out of fear of losing power. But the low turnout in itself should be a sign that it needs to be changed. If you still want local elections, fine. But this is just unacceptable.

[gingerp]

Guys, you are way too calm. Where are the scandals? Briberies? Public meltdowns? Take a look at your southern neighbors and thank God you live in such a wonderful country.

[mrsdarcythefirst]

Rosemary,

I hope you read this: Growing up, I considered the CBC to be a high quality, neutral, and impartial news network. Objectivity in journalism, that is, providing the facts alone, letting audiences interpret those facts on their own and allowing the audience to make up their own mind about a story is of the utmost importance to protect the independence of the CBC and to act responsibly and to be accountable.

In the past few months, I’ve noticed that there has been a slight left leaning bias (i.e. Trudeau) coming into your network. I’m also a bit confused as to why world news picked up Trudeau blackface a day before CBC did, and even when it was reported, it wasn’t immediately on the front page. I dismissed this as a misinterpretation on my part, and of little consequence. After all, it’s nearly impossible to have a completely neutral stance on everything. But your coverage of the election yesterday was something else.

You had an incredibly unprofessional demeanour throughout your reporting of the election, and instantly stood out against the panel as being inexperienced, impartial, and rude. The rest of the panel seemed more professional, objective, and composed.

You need to go back and read the Journalistic Standards and Practices section of the CBC and ensure that you abide by them You were truly embarrassing and should be ashamed of how you reported election yesterday. Please go back and rewatch your own segments, and as yourself whether any respectable and *impartial* journalist would consider your tone professional? I say this as a centralist/traditional liberal myself. Your snide remarks and scoffs at Bernier and the Conservatives are especially telling.

Few examples:

When you “offer your advice” to Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden, that he should not
call Lisa Raitt right away and let her deal with a grief, while scoffing.

–“Andrew Scheer going to Ralph Goodale’s riding.” Liberals you know. Like yourself?
Who give us examples? And how is this different than Liberals going to Milton
riding to take the seat away from long-time MP Raitt?

– “Lost all their deposits, so they may not be thrilled with you or want to
work with you”, again with a scoff.

I understand that as the host you are encouraging engagement amongst the panel, you let your loyalty to the liberals show a number of times, and your awkward pauses and scoffs were cringey to the audience. Please maintain your neutrality, many people question the journalistic objectivity of the CBC, and it’s no wonder given your insecure and immature style of reporting.

[gian_bucasas]

Wats dat song in the montage video during the breaks?

[karentinkle]

if you have strep throat you should really be at home lol. you're contagious for 24 hours lol.

[milesm]

I swear, I just want to clip out the "riding results" sound that plays. If anyone finds a part where they aren't talking over it that would be great.

[devon]

Just a tip. Maybe not cover individual riding returns with the popular vote bars for such a long period of time. I like knowing the status of individual races as they come in more than looking at a practically unchanging popular vote figure.

[arthurlau]

Trudeau should learn his lesson and be more modest and understand the majority of the Canadian wishes.

[hojoinhisarcher]

Well balanced forthright reporting.Entertaining.Thanks CBC.I would have preferred the individual polling numbers presented on a map occasionally as I have a touch of aspergers and find the scrolling of the polling on the right of the bar rather frustrating when trying to reconcile the map in the holodeck display department.I never did find my South Okanagen -West Kootenay candidates performance in the 3 hours I took in, but this is rather normal being in rural B.C.Fortunately my paper is online and I got a good quick accounting of the rundown and final tally.
This was a divisive campaign and I disagree with your panelists; the leaders statements blocked out or failed to block out, the rudiments of the issue, the approach to climate change in the various confirmation speeches.

[CharlesReece-nrwr]

By the way we still want to know what Scheer was doing in the US on private and secret meetings with who and about what?

[faba]

The Green Party got more than a million votes! Awesome. Great to see so many people still voted for the greens despite an electoral system that clearly hinders smaller parties and encourages strategic voting. Let's keep it growing.

[Jessicamomlife]

So proud that elizabeth holds 3 seats in HC