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Like it or not, we don’t technically vote in a PM in Canada. We vote in a local candidate, who represents a party, and that party is in control of the party leader. So realistically, very few Canadians are ever actually voting for the person who is designated PM. But don’t let that stop you from getting upset.

The Leader of the party controls the platform and messaging of potential MP’s. Meaning we vote for the Leader of that party and their platform, not the person representing them locally.

This is why the Conservatives lost under Sheer and O’Toole, while leading in the polls under Poilievre.

If it was all about the person at a local level why have their been so few independents elected? Are they all ignorant and incapable? Why do good MP’s get voted out when the Leader is messing up if it was about the local MP’s? Why are their so many “Fuck Trudeau” flags? Where are all the “Fuck -My local Liberal MP-” flags? Why is Pierre always talked about instead of the local Conservative MP’s? Why is it all about Singh regarding the NDP when so many MP’s in the NDP work their asses off locally?

Realistically, the majority of voters vote for their preferred Party and that Parties leader without ever knowing or caring who their local MP is.

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