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National Post
12-05-2025
- Politics
- National Post
The Liberals were stunned by the gains they made in Quebec's hostile ridings
OTTAWA — When Elections Canada certified the Liberals' victory by a single vote in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, senior party officials were stunned. Article content Article content 'This wasn't in our forecast. We didn't think she would win,' admitted a Liberal source about the party's candidate, Tatiana Auguste, the 24-year-old who thought she had lost the constituency. Article content Auguste was initially declared the winner on election night, but she later lost the riding to Bloc Québécois incumbent Nathalie Sinclair Desgagné, who attended her party's first caucus meeting last week, before winning it again by a single vote after a judicial recount. Article content Article content 'I've been on an emotional roller coaster, but I'm really happy,' Auguste said in multiple media interviews. But for Quebec Liberal organizers, her victory showed how much the big red Liberal machine has outperformed in the province. Article content Article content In the end, the Liberals won 44 of the 78 ridings, double the Bloc's 22 seats in the House of Commons. Before the recount in Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore and Terra Nova—Les Péninsules and Milton East—Halton Hills South, Terrebonne, and numerous surprise victories in Quebec, brought the Liberals to 170 seats, two short of a majority. Article content Terrebonne hadn't voted Liberal in 45 years. The same goes for Trois-Rivières. The last time the Liberals won Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou was in 2000, and they had never won Beauport—Limoilou in Quebec City since its creation in 2004. Article content They won all four of them. Article content 'It's surprising. Absolutely… I've always been skeptical because these are often ridings that have promised the Liberals but often failed to deliver,' said Jeremy Ghio, a former advisor to minister Mélanie Joly and a strategist at Tact Conseil. Article content Article content 'These have always been regions in which the Liberals had high expectations and ultimately suffered disappointment at the end of the campaign,' he added. Article content Article content Ghio and many Quebec Liberal sources believe Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to give significant roles to the province's representatives and bring fresh Quebec faces at the cabinet table. Article content For instance, people suggested to the prime minister's entourage that Mandy Gull-Masty, who was recently the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees/Cree Nation Government before winning Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, should be named in cabinet. Article content Ghio believes it is time for the prime minister to appoint longtime Quebec MP Joël Lightbound to Cabinet after his resounding majority in Louis-Hébert. Article content 'You need a minister in Quebec City. And it's time for Lightbound to join the cabinet. He worked his riding. He broke rank during the Trudeau years. He is not associated with Trudeau,' said Ghio. Article content During the campaign, the Liberal team deployed key ministers like Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Champagne, and Steven Guilbeault in more than ten ridings where the party thought it had a chance of success.
National Post
12-05-2025
- Politics
- National Post
She won her Quebec riding by a single vote in recount. Who is the Liberals' 170th MP?
A recount of votes in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped that seat from the Bloc Québécois to the Liberals, and brought the governing Liberty party to 170 MPs in the House of Commons, just two shy of a majority. Here's what to know about Tatiana Auguste, Canada's newest MP. Article content How close was the vote? Article content As close as they come. Auguste was initially reported to have won the riding by 35 votes after the April 28 election, but three days later the post-election validation process showed that incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné of the Bloc Québécois was ahead by 44 votes. Article content Article content That narrow victory then triggered a judicial recount, which began Thursday and was completed Saturday. It gave Auguste 23,352 votes against Sinclair-Desgagne's 23,351, a difference of just one ballot. Article content Article content Auguste's candidacy website says she was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and has lived in Canada since 2008. She grew up in Montreal, where she attended elementary and secondary school and graduated with an International Baccalaureate. She went on to study economics at Concordia University focusing on investment strategies in underrepresented communities. Article content The site notes that she has served as vice-president on the board of directors of Télévision Communautaire de Frontenac and is currently a volunteer there. TCF is a community TV station in Montreal offering French programming that includes public affairs, cultural, social and leisure shows, documentaries and youth programs. Article content Tatiana is also vice-president of the Conseil jeunesse de Montréal-Nord, a citizen participation group focused on people aged 12 to 30. She also served as a political attaché to Emmanuel Dubourg, Liberal MP from the Quebec riding of Bourassa from 2013 to 2025. He did not seek re-election this year. Article content Article content Article content None; this is Auguste's first time running and her first victory in an election. She is also one of four incoming Liberal MPs — the others are Jake Sawatzky in B.C., and Amandeep Sodhi and Fares Al Soud in Ontario — who were born in the early 2000s. Article content On the narrowness of the result, she said: 'It certainly shows a bit of division. But I work for everyone, whether they voted for me or not. I'm ready to do the work to rally them to Terrebonne's cause.' Article content She also congratulated her rival, Sinclair-Desgagné, on a close race, and said she understands her defeat. 'Having experienced it a week ago, I found it heartbreaking for her.' Article content
CBC
12-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Another seat flips
The Liberals have won one more seat after a recount in a Quebec riding. Coming up, with three more recounts expected, how much can things change for the Liberal Party, and will it all impact the dynamic when the House resumes?
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
In the news today: Liberals win Quebec riding by one vote in recount
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals win Quebec riding by one vote in recount With more recounts still to come, the Liberals are another seat closer to a majority government after a judicial recount saw them narrowly win the Quebec riding of Terrebonne. A judicial recount of the riding north of Montreal saw the Liberals win the the riding by one vote and now gives them 170 seats in Parliament. The announcement comes as more recounts are underway, including two in Ontario. One of those ridings is Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore, where a judicial recount was granted after incumbent Liberal Irek Kusmierczyk argued several ballots were "wrongly rejected" after validation showed he lost to Conservative challenger Kathy Borrelli by 77 votes. The other Ontario seat, located in the Greater Toronto area, has Kristina Tesser Derksen is ahead of Conservative Parm Gill by 29 votes in Milton East—Halton Hills South. An automatic recount there will happen May 13. Here's what else we're watching... Hockey players' sexual assault trial continues Defence lawyers in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team are expected to continue cross-examining the complainant today. The woman, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, first took the stand on May 2 and spent most of last week facing questions from the defence. On Friday, she pushed back against a defence suggestion that she was embarrassed and ashamed for the choices she'd made the night of the alleged incident. She said she made the choice to drink and dance at the London, Ont., bar where she first met some of the accused, not to "have them do what they did back at the hotel." Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter that took place at the Delta hotel in the early hours of June 19, 2018. Ontario hospitals spent $9B on agencies: study Ontario hospitals spent more than $9 billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study, released Monday, examined financial statements for 134 Ontario hospital corporations as well as data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. It found that from 2013-14 to 2022-23 public hospital spending on staff increased six per cent, but their spending on private agencies increased 98 per cent. Study author Andrew Longhurst also found that while the number of hours worked by agency staff in Ontario hospitals accounted for 0.4 per cent of all front-line worker hours in 2022-23, six per cent of hospitals' labour costs went toward the private staff. Hospitals turn to staffing agencies for qualified workers that can fill shifts on a temporary basis, but agencies charge double or even triple the regular hourly rate for their staff and hospitals want to reduce their reliance on them. Skydiving instructor dies in Alberta: RCMP RCMP say a skydiver has died in a weekend accident west of Edmonton. Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said police were called to a township road near Onoway on Saturday morning, where he said a 56-year-old man from Edmonton suffered fatal injuries following a jump from a plane. He said the man was a skydiving instructor. Skydiving West Edmonton said in a statement that an "experienced skydiver" succumbed to his injuries as a result of "a high-speed malfunction" on Saturday morning. At this point Savinkoff said the death appears to have been an accident and does not appear suspicious, but he said RCMP, workplace safety officials and the Chief Medical Examiner's Office continue to investigate. Leafs waste Woll's performance in Game 4 loss Joseph Woll did everything he could to hold the line. The Maple Leafs goaltender stretched, contorted and sprawled to make save after save against the Panthers' onslaught. His teammates weren't close to that level. Woll stopped 35 of the 37 shots he faced Sunday in Toronto's stifling 2-0 loss to Florida that evened the teams' second-round playoff series 2-2. The Leafs, who fell 5-4 in overtime two nights earlier, again had a chance to push the defending Stanley Cup champions to the brink, but instead were second-best most of the night — other than their netminder. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 12, 2025, The Canadian Press
National Post
11-05-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Liberals get to 170 seats after Quebec riding flips by a single vote in judicial recount
The Liberals inched another seat closer to a majority government on Saturday, after a judicial recount left their candidate as the winner in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, by a margin of just one vote. Article content An official with Elections Canada confirmed to The Canadian Press that Liberal Tatiana Auguste will finish ahead of incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagne. Article content Article content It brings the Liberals to 170 seats in the House of Commons, two shy of the 172 needed for a majority government. The Bloc seat count falls to 22. Article content Article content Auguste was initially projected to win the riding by 35 votes after the April 28 election, but on May 1, following the required post-election validation process, Sinclair-Desgagne, who was first elected in 2021, moved ahead by 44 votes. Article content The win was returned to Auguste following the judicial recount, with Auguste receiving 23,352 votes and Sinclair-Desgagne receiving 23,351. Article content A judicial recount is automatic when the number of votes cast for the candidate with the most votes and the number of votes cast for any other candidate is less than 0.1 per cent of the valid votes cast. That was true in this case. Article content The recount was to begin on Thursday and was completed on Saturday. Elections Canada said last week that the recount would be overseen by Superior Court of Quebec Justice Danielle Turcotte. Article content Article content A validation process is done by the returning officer, who reviews the cumulative addition of votes in a riding from every poll, based on the counts determined at every polling station in the presence of party scrutineers and election officers. It does not recount the ballots or review ballots that were deemed to be invalid. Article content Article content A judicial recount looks at all the ballots again, verifying the ones that were initially accepted and reconsidering ballots that were rejected. It takes place in the presence of a judge from a Superior Court in the affected province or territory.
