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Vol. 20, No. 30, Wednesday, April 30, 2025 www.LamontLeader.com
Liberals win small minority - Carney PM Stubbs rolls in Lakeland with another landslide victory BY JOHN MATHER While the federal Conservatives fell just short of their goal of forming the next federal government in the April 28 election. Shannon Stubbs, the Lakeland Conservative incumbent, cruised to another term. Stubbs won easily with 43,372 or 81.3 per cent of the vote total with 239 of 246 polls reporting. Second place was Liberal candidate Barry Milaney with 6,360 votes or 11.9 per cent of the vote, and in third place was NDP candidate Des Bissonnette with 1,989 votes or 3.7 per cent of the vote. The People’s Party of Canada, Green candidate and Christian Heritage Party candidate all had less than 2 per cent of the popular vote. Stubbs was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015. Across Alberta, three additional ridings gave the province 37 seats and the federal Conservatives won all but three. Heather McPherson held her Edmonton Strathcona seat for the NDP, and the Edmonton Centre seat was won by the Liberal candidate. All other
Edmonton seats were won by the Conservatives. The Liberals under newly minted leader Mark Carney won the election with 168 seats (pending at press time) to 144 seats for the Conservatives to form a minority government. Additional counting in some ridings and judicial recounts will take a few more days to determine the final seat allocation. There is a chance the Liberals could jump to a majority government if they attain a total of 172 or more seats. The Bloc Quebecois holds the main balance of power with 23 seats, while the NDP saw their seat count plummet to a mere seven seats. The Greens reelected Elizabeth May in BC for their one lone seat in parliament which could be a crucial seat depending on voting patterns. The second Green seat
in the Kitchener, Ont. area is still too close to determine a final outcome. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh finished third in his riding in a Vancouver suburb and promptly resigned as the leader. The election saw the Conservatives pick up the largest percentage of votes since the 1980s. Both main Federal parties secured more than 40 per cent of the national vote each. Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, despite leading his team to a strong result beating most polling expectations, lost his own Ottawa Carleton seat which he had held since first being elected in 2005. In an early morning speech to supporters, Poilievre vowed to fight on saying “we have much to celebrate tonight,” noting the party gained the
highest vote count since 1988 and “denied the NDP and Liberals enough seats to form a coalition government.” The Liberals won all the seats in and around the nation's capital including PM Mark Carney winning his Nepean seat. In his victory speech Carney stated he would be a prime minister representing all Canadians regardless of who they might be. He also aimed some shots at President Donald Trump whom he had geared most of his campaign around. “As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen,” Carney said, as he hailed a remarkable reversal in fortune for his party. “We are over the shock of the American betrayal but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves. And above all we have to take care of each other,” he said. Results as of Tuesday 9 am