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http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2006/default.html The table 8 gives ENTIRELY different results from the ones here, especially on minor parties. update accordingly to official results please. -- Petrovic-Njegos 21:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I understand that this article is entitled "Canadian federal election, 2006" and as such it reports those MPs and their party affiliations as they were elected on January 23rd. However, with David Emerson crossing the floor from the Tories to the Liberals, am I wrong in understanding that the Tories now have 125, not 124 seats, and the Liberals have been reduced from 103 to 102? Perhaps, due to its title, that is "Canadian federal election, 2006" this is not the right article to update this seemingly minor change. In fact though, the change is not minor, especially if you're Jack Layton. One more defection or change due to a recount could give the NDP the balance of power. In what article is the most current composition of the House of Commons? Loomis51 12:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
I think I just answered my own question, in the article on the Canadian House of Commons, there is a section entitled "current composition", reflecting the defection of David Emerson. I still do think that it might be misleading for someone not reading the footnotes to rely on this article as reflecting Parliament's current composition. Loomis51 12:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or did someone go out of their way to find the ugliest picture of Stephan Harper possible? I mean, compare that picture to his official biography. ~Slavik81, 21 January 2006
Am I the only one who sees major problems in this recent addition? Did the Toronto Star officially endorse the Liberals? Did The Globe and Mail officially endorse the Conservatives? Is Don Cherry a Quebec Seperatist?
I had noticed that the Elections Canada press release that all count of candidates on, had a break down by gender. All the information in this release except the gender breakdown made it to the Template:Canadian federal election, 2006. It didn't seem very NPOV to me, to leave it off, so I added it; but someone else felt it was unnecessary and deleted. I've restored, but what is consensus? Nfitz 19:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
This information should not be in that table, this is a summary of results, It's not important to put Male / Female breakdown, what next ethnic breakdown reglious breakdown? Gay and straight breakdown age range where does it end? This information should be in it's own section, seats by election summarys should flow from one federal election to another, this information should be in it's own section if it is to be included. -- Cloveious 05:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
These certainly deserve a look by someone knowledgeable:
This list is certainly not comprehensive. Check Category:Government of Canada for more things to check.
-- Taral 05:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There is a typo in the following graphic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Canada_election_2006.jpg/250px-Canada_election_2006.jpg where Bloc is spelled Bloq in the legend.
Someone might like to add a bit to Conservative Party of Canada explaining just a little of what their policies are. I would have thought this a pretty big oversight? - Randwicked Alex B 07:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Apologies if this is already there and I am overlooking it, but could somebody who knows about this stuff add some information on the formal procedure for forming the next government? For example, the international media seem to be assuming that the Conservatives, as largest single party, will be involved in the next government. But is there any reason why they must be included when, for example, a Liberal-BQ-NDP coalition would have a substantial overall majority? Best wishes, Cambyses 11:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
So who was the independent elected and where from? Perhaps I missed it in the article. Rmhermen 15:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Good point. I have added footnotes to indicate that André Arthur was elected as an independent candidate in the Quebec City-area riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier. Ground Zero | t 16:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that the election is over, I suggest that the opinion polls table be deleted since it duplicates what is in the branch article. Anyone interested in opinion polling in the election would follow the link to the branch article. Agreed? Ground Zero | t 18:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
That should be taken down or changed, there is no certainty that a Conservative will be speaker and, in fact, it would be quite likely for the Conservatives to encourage Peter Milliken to reseek the job to widen their standings - Jord 19:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I have changed the image leaving the speaker's chair vacant and placing the independent in the back row which is where he would be seated - though he might be placed in between the two caucuses not in the back corner. I hope this is agreeable to all - Jord 20:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
As well, this might merely be a matter of formatting, but there's no reason to have so much white space uptop with line breaks. This, added to the scrolling any visitor would have to endure (given the TOC below), may make for an article requiring some parring down or reformatting. Thoughts? E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 20:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if we should remove this section, which has caused some confusion in the past, now that the election is over and replace it with those close calls from this election, ministers who lost their seats, etc? - Jord 20:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Would it make sence to have the Liberals on the map be shades of red, to match party color and the CBC's choice of color, instead of brown? -SAS- 24 Jan 2006 17:31 Eastern, PA, USA
data (Excel file) on each riding can be found at http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2006/01/25/765/ . includes the provice/territory, population, area, number of votes counted, number of votes for all registered parties (other than animal alliance), etc.
The results map is a beautiful piece of work. It is a pleasure to look at and reflects a good deal of hard work.
However, I think it can be improved on as an information graphic. Right now, it has too many colors. It is difficult to tell, for example, the difference between slim Conservative wins and slim Bloc wins.
I know we would like to express as much information as we can on the map and use the parties' traditional colors. However, the primary concern must be making the map easy-to-read.
I suggest using only four colors: blue for the Conservatives, red for the Liberals, yellow (or dark green) for the NDP and white for the Bloc. Orange and red are too close for colorblind people.
Mwalcoff 23:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There's more than one shade of white? ;) But other wise yes. Just make it clear that the NDP is Yellow or Green. 23:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Very nice! If I had my way, I would make "New Democrats" singular in the legend, and put the Bloc in last place-- Colle 04:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Charlottetown, Sydney and Hamilton are also missing from the map. You might also want to consider a city in New Brunswick. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
One other little thing: I would erase some of the rivers. It looks like British Columbia Southern Interior is two ridings. -- Mwalcoff 09:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
There is still the mistake with the plural NDP in the legend. And I would put the Bloc last, becaue they had the least votes. I see your point about making it clear for the Americans though. I saw a TV News story just after the election where they were interviewing people in suits at Washington DC about opinions on the election. Two comments were "I didn't know they got a new President!!" and "I hope the new government encourages opening up the boarders for more tourism, and allows more U.S. visitors" Sorry, off topic. --
Colle 05:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks so much for making the "colorblind version." It really helps. The only riding that's still problematic on it is Brome—Missisquoi, because the green is so light. Perhaps you should write "BQ" in the riding or something. You also might want to label the riding won by the independent as "Indep." or something, since there is no color in the legend for an independent. Also, Brossard—La Prairie appears to have been left in cyan in the colorblind map.
Great job! -- Mwalcoff 22:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one who finds this map misleading? Parliament is not represented by provinces, but by federal ridings. While I appreciate the work that has gone into this, I wonder if it may not be more productive to obtain permission to reproduce something like the map that appears on the Elections Canada website, which colours the ridings accordingly. Any thoughts? Fishhead64 07:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for the fine map. I found it much more useful than the graphics constructed by the Canadian news organizations. (And said so on my web site, "Jim Miller on Politics".)
I did notice one minor glitch: The article advertises a high resolution version of the map, but both yesterday and today, the link did not take you to that file. You may also want to put a link in for the big official PDF map. -Jim Miller 16:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
As mentioned by E Pluribus above, it takes quite a bit of scrolling to read the article. In order to trim it down I propose, if noone objects, to remove, seriously slim down or move to another article the following parts:
That should probably make it somewhat easier to read, esp. for an average passer-by who happens to be interested in the 2006 election. Thoughts, comments? Ikh ( talk) 09:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Well someone could put the gender breakdown back where I had put it, in the table summarizing the seats. That would take about 15 cm off the length of the article! Nfitz 00:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Near the top of this article is a section titled "Contenders", with writeups and photos of the leaders for the four parties that won seats in the election and one other. Of course there is nothing wrong reporting information for the Green Party, but when they have never -- including this time around -- won a single seat or as much as 5% of the popular vote, they do not belong on a list of "contenders", a word that suggests an actual chance of winning something.
Either there should be a section on "other parties" (or "other candidates", including independents), with the Greens listed first, or else the title "contenders" should be changed to something more inclusive.
Further, the wording about "polling" as much as 10% nationally could be read as referring to actual election results. Given the subject matter of this article and the margin of error of opinion polls, I suggest that it would be better to refer to election results; the present wording seems to me like a POV attempt to promote what is still a minor party.
207.176.159.90 23:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't really agree with this. Just because a Government has a smaller amount of seats doesn't mean that it is more prone to collapse than a Government that has a larger amount of seats, that may not be able to find as much support. For example, I would say that if the Bloc is likely to support the Tories, they have a solid majority together, which was not the case with Liberal + NDP in the last Parliament, say. Maybe it could be more unstable - but we can't really know for sure until we see how well the parties work together. - Nichlemn 22:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
User:Electionworld and I disagree about how the party names should be presented in Template:Canadian federal election, 2006, which is the table that displays the overall election results. I will accept the decision of other editors, and hope that User:Electionworld would as well. Please add your name below as appropriate. I propose to let this poll run until the end of the day (UTC) on Jan. 31. Ground Zero | t 03:16, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
In favour of using full party names (e.g., " Conservative Party of Canada")
In favour of short forms (e.g., " Conservative")
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I'm also in favour of short forms. We need to keep the table more organized and less crowded
Did the Bloc truly have an English slogan in the 2006 election? As far as I know it was just in French. -- Saforrest 20:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I write to explain my revert of the NDP slogan edit. Even as the slogans appended are used passim by the NDP, sundry extant campaign sites (e.g., this one, from Michael Shapcott) provide the idea that the principal English-lanuguage NDP slogan for the federal election was "Getting Results for Canadians". The IP address from which the edits were made appears to have given rise to many good edits, especially apropos of Canadian government and politics, and, so, I imagine that the editor will offer links supporting his/her edit in the case that such links exist. Joe 20:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't the editor in question, but I do offer this link. The NDP Platform page has the title: "Getting results for people". Also on the NDP website are wallpapers that list the slogan as "Getting results for people". The NDP website also has some of the TV ads they ran. The tagline at the end is "Working Families First" (at least for the first two ads I watched). Jhayman 00:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
The Bloc's official English translation of its slogan was "Thankfully, here it's the Bloc". See their website: [2]. You can choose to translate their French slogan into English however you want, but let's use the official translation for Wikipedia purposes, please. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 15:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
This is just the results of the 2006 Election. I have just noticed that as soon as Garth Turner was expelled from the Conservative caucus, it was immediately reflected on here. How is it that you can change Mr. Turner from a Tory to an Independent, but can take out of the picture the fact that someone left federal politics, someone crossed the floor and someone died since the election. Could someone please redo the picture of the House to either show the January 23 results OR the current composition, not a little bit of both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.132.120 ( talk • contribs)
in fact, polls have suggested that the Green Party in Canada draws more of its support from Conservative-identified voters than it does from Liberal or NDP supporters.
I would like to see what polls support this alleged "fact". Certainly, in the recent London North Centre by-election, the NDP was the most affected by the rise of the Green Party, whereas the right wing parties (Libs and CPC) more or less retained their vote. So, please include references to these specific polls that you refer to. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mark alfred ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC).
The current graphic at the top of the page colours all of the NDP's seats as Liberals. Esn 20:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Fixed Jhayman 05:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
It looks like a hung parliament to me, but I see no mention of the word hung on the page, is there a reason why the left wing parties don't form A coalition? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajuk ( talk • contribs) 09:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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Are figures available anywhere that gives the turnout to the election, that is the percentage of people who voted, compared to the number who could have voted? I believe that this is a useful indicator of the public's belief in democracy and the current state of politics, and would make a useful addition to these pages. Derek Andrews ( talk) 09:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Did someone change the picture of paul martin? Wikipedia is used to provide information not biased opinions or selective inclusion of material. I suggest changing the picture of Paul martin immediately and whoever posted it should be limited editing rights. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.136.95.76 ( talk) 01:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Despite Stephen Harper's claims, the 2006 government was not the longest minority government since Confederation. In fact, there were two minority governments that lasted longer: King's first ministry and Pearson's second ministry. It is however, the longest minority government by a party other than the Liberal Party of Canada, I have changed the wording to reflect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingerbreadmen ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
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I believe it would improve the article if the Martin Image from 2004 was replaced with this one from 2006;
and the Duceppe one from 2011 be replaced with this one from 2010:
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Seeing as the PPC has now been included at the infobox of 2021 Canadian federal election. Should the Green Party (and its leader) be included in the infobox of this article? GoodDay ( talk) 16:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2006/default.html The table 8 gives ENTIRELY different results from the ones here, especially on minor parties. update accordingly to official results please. -- Petrovic-Njegos 21:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I understand that this article is entitled "Canadian federal election, 2006" and as such it reports those MPs and their party affiliations as they were elected on January 23rd. However, with David Emerson crossing the floor from the Tories to the Liberals, am I wrong in understanding that the Tories now have 125, not 124 seats, and the Liberals have been reduced from 103 to 102? Perhaps, due to its title, that is "Canadian federal election, 2006" this is not the right article to update this seemingly minor change. In fact though, the change is not minor, especially if you're Jack Layton. One more defection or change due to a recount could give the NDP the balance of power. In what article is the most current composition of the House of Commons? Loomis51 12:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
I think I just answered my own question, in the article on the Canadian House of Commons, there is a section entitled "current composition", reflecting the defection of David Emerson. I still do think that it might be misleading for someone not reading the footnotes to rely on this article as reflecting Parliament's current composition. Loomis51 12:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or did someone go out of their way to find the ugliest picture of Stephan Harper possible? I mean, compare that picture to his official biography. ~Slavik81, 21 January 2006
Am I the only one who sees major problems in this recent addition? Did the Toronto Star officially endorse the Liberals? Did The Globe and Mail officially endorse the Conservatives? Is Don Cherry a Quebec Seperatist?
I had noticed that the Elections Canada press release that all count of candidates on, had a break down by gender. All the information in this release except the gender breakdown made it to the Template:Canadian federal election, 2006. It didn't seem very NPOV to me, to leave it off, so I added it; but someone else felt it was unnecessary and deleted. I've restored, but what is consensus? Nfitz 19:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
This information should not be in that table, this is a summary of results, It's not important to put Male / Female breakdown, what next ethnic breakdown reglious breakdown? Gay and straight breakdown age range where does it end? This information should be in it's own section, seats by election summarys should flow from one federal election to another, this information should be in it's own section if it is to be included. -- Cloveious 05:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
These certainly deserve a look by someone knowledgeable:
This list is certainly not comprehensive. Check Category:Government of Canada for more things to check.
-- Taral 05:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There is a typo in the following graphic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Canada_election_2006.jpg/250px-Canada_election_2006.jpg where Bloc is spelled Bloq in the legend.
Someone might like to add a bit to Conservative Party of Canada explaining just a little of what their policies are. I would have thought this a pretty big oversight? - Randwicked Alex B 07:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Apologies if this is already there and I am overlooking it, but could somebody who knows about this stuff add some information on the formal procedure for forming the next government? For example, the international media seem to be assuming that the Conservatives, as largest single party, will be involved in the next government. But is there any reason why they must be included when, for example, a Liberal-BQ-NDP coalition would have a substantial overall majority? Best wishes, Cambyses 11:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
So who was the independent elected and where from? Perhaps I missed it in the article. Rmhermen 15:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Good point. I have added footnotes to indicate that André Arthur was elected as an independent candidate in the Quebec City-area riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier. Ground Zero | t 16:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Now that the election is over, I suggest that the opinion polls table be deleted since it duplicates what is in the branch article. Anyone interested in opinion polling in the election would follow the link to the branch article. Agreed? Ground Zero | t 18:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
That should be taken down or changed, there is no certainty that a Conservative will be speaker and, in fact, it would be quite likely for the Conservatives to encourage Peter Milliken to reseek the job to widen their standings - Jord 19:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I have changed the image leaving the speaker's chair vacant and placing the independent in the back row which is where he would be seated - though he might be placed in between the two caucuses not in the back corner. I hope this is agreeable to all - Jord 20:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
As well, this might merely be a matter of formatting, but there's no reason to have so much white space uptop with line breaks. This, added to the scrolling any visitor would have to endure (given the TOC below), may make for an article requiring some parring down or reformatting. Thoughts? E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 20:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I wonder if we should remove this section, which has caused some confusion in the past, now that the election is over and replace it with those close calls from this election, ministers who lost their seats, etc? - Jord 20:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Would it make sence to have the Liberals on the map be shades of red, to match party color and the CBC's choice of color, instead of brown? -SAS- 24 Jan 2006 17:31 Eastern, PA, USA
data (Excel file) on each riding can be found at http://www.faganfinder.com/wp/2006/01/25/765/ . includes the provice/territory, population, area, number of votes counted, number of votes for all registered parties (other than animal alliance), etc.
The results map is a beautiful piece of work. It is a pleasure to look at and reflects a good deal of hard work.
However, I think it can be improved on as an information graphic. Right now, it has too many colors. It is difficult to tell, for example, the difference between slim Conservative wins and slim Bloc wins.
I know we would like to express as much information as we can on the map and use the parties' traditional colors. However, the primary concern must be making the map easy-to-read.
I suggest using only four colors: blue for the Conservatives, red for the Liberals, yellow (or dark green) for the NDP and white for the Bloc. Orange and red are too close for colorblind people.
Mwalcoff 23:35, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
There's more than one shade of white? ;) But other wise yes. Just make it clear that the NDP is Yellow or Green. 23:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Very nice! If I had my way, I would make "New Democrats" singular in the legend, and put the Bloc in last place-- Colle 04:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Charlottetown, Sydney and Hamilton are also missing from the map. You might also want to consider a city in New Brunswick. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
One other little thing: I would erase some of the rivers. It looks like British Columbia Southern Interior is two ridings. -- Mwalcoff 09:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
There is still the mistake with the plural NDP in the legend. And I would put the Bloc last, becaue they had the least votes. I see your point about making it clear for the Americans though. I saw a TV News story just after the election where they were interviewing people in suits at Washington DC about opinions on the election. Two comments were "I didn't know they got a new President!!" and "I hope the new government encourages opening up the boarders for more tourism, and allows more U.S. visitors" Sorry, off topic. --
Colle 05:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks so much for making the "colorblind version." It really helps. The only riding that's still problematic on it is Brome—Missisquoi, because the green is so light. Perhaps you should write "BQ" in the riding or something. You also might want to label the riding won by the independent as "Indep." or something, since there is no color in the legend for an independent. Also, Brossard—La Prairie appears to have been left in cyan in the colorblind map.
Great job! -- Mwalcoff 22:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Am I the only one who finds this map misleading? Parliament is not represented by provinces, but by federal ridings. While I appreciate the work that has gone into this, I wonder if it may not be more productive to obtain permission to reproduce something like the map that appears on the Elections Canada website, which colours the ridings accordingly. Any thoughts? Fishhead64 07:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks for the fine map. I found it much more useful than the graphics constructed by the Canadian news organizations. (And said so on my web site, "Jim Miller on Politics".)
I did notice one minor glitch: The article advertises a high resolution version of the map, but both yesterday and today, the link did not take you to that file. You may also want to put a link in for the big official PDF map. -Jim Miller 16:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
As mentioned by E Pluribus above, it takes quite a bit of scrolling to read the article. In order to trim it down I propose, if noone objects, to remove, seriously slim down or move to another article the following parts:
That should probably make it somewhat easier to read, esp. for an average passer-by who happens to be interested in the 2006 election. Thoughts, comments? Ikh ( talk) 09:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Well someone could put the gender breakdown back where I had put it, in the table summarizing the seats. That would take about 15 cm off the length of the article! Nfitz 00:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Near the top of this article is a section titled "Contenders", with writeups and photos of the leaders for the four parties that won seats in the election and one other. Of course there is nothing wrong reporting information for the Green Party, but when they have never -- including this time around -- won a single seat or as much as 5% of the popular vote, they do not belong on a list of "contenders", a word that suggests an actual chance of winning something.
Either there should be a section on "other parties" (or "other candidates", including independents), with the Greens listed first, or else the title "contenders" should be changed to something more inclusive.
Further, the wording about "polling" as much as 10% nationally could be read as referring to actual election results. Given the subject matter of this article and the margin of error of opinion polls, I suggest that it would be better to refer to election results; the present wording seems to me like a POV attempt to promote what is still a minor party.
207.176.159.90 23:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I wouldn't really agree with this. Just because a Government has a smaller amount of seats doesn't mean that it is more prone to collapse than a Government that has a larger amount of seats, that may not be able to find as much support. For example, I would say that if the Bloc is likely to support the Tories, they have a solid majority together, which was not the case with Liberal + NDP in the last Parliament, say. Maybe it could be more unstable - but we can't really know for sure until we see how well the parties work together. - Nichlemn 22:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
User:Electionworld and I disagree about how the party names should be presented in Template:Canadian federal election, 2006, which is the table that displays the overall election results. I will accept the decision of other editors, and hope that User:Electionworld would as well. Please add your name below as appropriate. I propose to let this poll run until the end of the day (UTC) on Jan. 31. Ground Zero | t 03:16, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
In favour of using full party names (e.g., " Conservative Party of Canada")
In favour of short forms (e.g., " Conservative")
Discussion
I'm also in favour of short forms. We need to keep the table more organized and less crowded
Did the Bloc truly have an English slogan in the 2006 election? As far as I know it was just in French. -- Saforrest 20:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I write to explain my revert of the NDP slogan edit. Even as the slogans appended are used passim by the NDP, sundry extant campaign sites (e.g., this one, from Michael Shapcott) provide the idea that the principal English-lanuguage NDP slogan for the federal election was "Getting Results for Canadians". The IP address from which the edits were made appears to have given rise to many good edits, especially apropos of Canadian government and politics, and, so, I imagine that the editor will offer links supporting his/her edit in the case that such links exist. Joe 20:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't the editor in question, but I do offer this link. The NDP Platform page has the title: "Getting results for people". Also on the NDP website are wallpapers that list the slogan as "Getting results for people". The NDP website also has some of the TV ads they ran. The tagline at the end is "Working Families First" (at least for the first two ads I watched). Jhayman 00:53, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
The Bloc's official English translation of its slogan was "Thankfully, here it's the Bloc". See their website: [2]. You can choose to translate their French slogan into English however you want, but let's use the official translation for Wikipedia purposes, please. Thanks. Ground Zero | t 15:50, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
This is just the results of the 2006 Election. I have just noticed that as soon as Garth Turner was expelled from the Conservative caucus, it was immediately reflected on here. How is it that you can change Mr. Turner from a Tory to an Independent, but can take out of the picture the fact that someone left federal politics, someone crossed the floor and someone died since the election. Could someone please redo the picture of the House to either show the January 23 results OR the current composition, not a little bit of both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.132.120 ( talk • contribs)
in fact, polls have suggested that the Green Party in Canada draws more of its support from Conservative-identified voters than it does from Liberal or NDP supporters.
I would like to see what polls support this alleged "fact". Certainly, in the recent London North Centre by-election, the NDP was the most affected by the rise of the Green Party, whereas the right wing parties (Libs and CPC) more or less retained their vote. So, please include references to these specific polls that you refer to. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mark alfred ( talk • contribs) 17:22, 24 December 2006 (UTC).
The current graphic at the top of the page colours all of the NDP's seats as Liberals. Esn 20:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Fixed Jhayman 05:25, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
It looks like a hung parliament to me, but I see no mention of the word hung on the page, is there a reason why the left wing parties don't form A coalition? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajuk ( talk • contribs) 09:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
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Are figures available anywhere that gives the turnout to the election, that is the percentage of people who voted, compared to the number who could have voted? I believe that this is a useful indicator of the public's belief in democracy and the current state of politics, and would make a useful addition to these pages. Derek Andrews ( talk) 09:59, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Did someone change the picture of paul martin? Wikipedia is used to provide information not biased opinions or selective inclusion of material. I suggest changing the picture of Paul martin immediately and whoever posted it should be limited editing rights. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.136.95.76 ( talk) 01:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Despite Stephen Harper's claims, the 2006 government was not the longest minority government since Confederation. In fact, there were two minority governments that lasted longer: King's first ministry and Pearson's second ministry. It is however, the longest minority government by a party other than the Liberal Party of Canada, I have changed the wording to reflect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingerbreadmen ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
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I believe it would improve the article if the Martin Image from 2004 was replaced with this one from 2006;
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Geminin667 ( talk) 02:04, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Seeing as the PPC has now been included at the infobox of 2021 Canadian federal election. Should the Green Party (and its leader) be included in the infobox of this article? GoodDay ( talk) 16:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)