I can’t believe it - Canada is poised to RE-ELECT Justin Trudeau’s liberal party according to polls.
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It also doesn't help that the PPC is blocked from running in Ontario... which given that it is the capital province of Canada isn't helping things.
The PPC AFAIK is running candidates in Ontario. The issue is with trademark stuff over the actual party name.
Both seats close to me have PPC candidates on the ballot AFAICT.
I've seen (very few) purple signs for the guy closest to me.
You are probably right about them not being blocked. Though they definitely can't use their name to run as the applications are denied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peoples_Political_Party
They don't seem to be running candidates in my area so I couldn't vote for them. All I know is I got my ballot and there was no Candidate from the party on it.
Wiki about PPC Name Dispute
It looks like the PPC vs People's Political Party (now defunct) was over naming rights only with Elections Ontario for running in Ontario provincial elections for the Queen's Park legislature in Toronto, not the federal one in Ottawa.
It seems at one time the PPC tried to register a sister Ontario provincial wings for the provincial legislature, much like the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP each have a provincial party in the Ontario legislature.
I do somewhat recall after COVID and the convoy that there were rumblings that former Doug Ford PC MPP Randy Hillier was going to try to form a PPC Ontario wing and lead it against his old party in June 2022.
But Hillier is kind of an oddball and a loose cannon, so he announced well before the writ dropped that spring that the PPC Ontario project wasn't happening.
The PPC naming dispute in Ontario re: their state legislature has no effect on the federal PPC or this current election though.
PPC is not blocked in Ontario. They are running in most areas. Its unlikely they'll win a riding, but they are not blocked.
they cannot run under their name which is pretty darn important for recognition. Unless you directly look up who their candidate is, you won't be able to find them. Combine this with the constant deplatforming and its not hard to understand why they will rarely win a riding.
I'm not sure what you mean? There is a PPC candidate running in my riding under his own name, with a purple sign with PPC on it....
According the above comment from Benevolentdictator the PPC naming debacle that ensured they didn't show up the on ballot in previous elections is over. For the first time there is someone from PPC in my riding as well though I've not seen any ads for them.