How do you get a Liberal and a Conservative to see eye-to-eye? Make them wait for a recount

Liberal Anthony Germain and conservative Jonathan Rowe have something in common: a strong desire to make this choice and made.

Almost four weeks have passed since the Canadians went to the surveys in a federal election, and there is still no clear winner in the driving of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A long and complicated count, delayed by municipal affairs, has left rival politicians in Limbo while waiting to see who will go to Ottawa and who will return to their daily work.

“I wouldn’t say that none of us is sleeping a lot,” Rowe said as he joined Germain for an interview with As happens Host Kӧksal on Thursday.

“This seems to move on and continue,” Germain took into account. “So I have nothing more than empathy for my honorable opponent.”

Too close to call

The night of the elections was tense for Germain and Rowe. It was neck and neck all night, and took more than 20 hours after the surveys closed before the Canada elections launched the final account.

Germain, a CBC station turned into a teacher, defeated Rowe, an engineer, with only 12 votes: 19,704 to 19,692.

The thin margin of Razor triggered an automatic judicial count, which was more complicated by the fact that more than 1,000 ballots were in dispute.

The process was further delayed on Wednesday when a water closure scheduled in Marystown, NL, where the count is carried out, forced all public buildings to close.

A Canada election spokesman told CBC that they hope to finish counting on Friday. But candidates are not containing their breath.

“I don’t know, Jonathan, do you think we will really discover it tomorrow or not?” Germain asked his opponent on Thursday.

“We have been listening tomorrow for a long time, right?” Rowe replied.

‘One of us has to get to Ottawa very fast’

Part of the fight, both candidates say, is to discover what to do with their lives when their futures are uncertain.

Germain left a job teaching English in Labrador to run for liberals, and says he misses his students.

“To say goodbye was very, very difficult. And if things do not go out to my path tomorrow, I will probably be on a plane to show them again,” he said.

Rowe, meanwhile, has been in an unpaid absence permit of his engineering work since August, and has been collecting occasional shifts in a local nursery, “planting some flowers [and] trying to sell some apple trees. “

“The first thing I’m going to do if I lose is to tie my work boots and roll my sleeves and return to work,” he said.

While both men have professional lives that have left behind, they are also eager to potentially start a new professional career, although it will be a bit like starting in a new school in the middle of the semester.

“One of us has to get to Ottawa very fast,” Germain said.

“Here in Clarenville, there is always a joke. Our family is always late for the church,” Rowe said about his hometown of Newfoundland with a smile. “I think the Lord can be punishing me. We will arrive late to Ottawa too.”

In spite of everything, Germain and Rowe say they don’t regret.

Both men say they have directed a civilized campaign from which they are proud and have learned a lot about the electoral process along the way.

“We do not agree on many things,” Germain said. “But in this, we do it.”