Canadian Election

At least the HOC isn't like Taiwanese parliament. Don't like a piece of legislation? Flying Dropkick!

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Originally Posted by Hero

I don't think parties that only have one cause can last out there.

The Marijuana party seems frivolous to me, and here with the Greens...I want to keep the environment in one peice, but Green members I've met tend to be...quite militant and zealous.

I didn't know Canada have provisions to basically overturn the decision of the voters (reading Kenshin's article). Call me crazy, but even if the Liberals voted Torie just to teach their party a lesson, then whatever trouble comes in the next 4 years is squarely on them. You ought to vote for what you want to vote for and be responsible for that decision.

*two cents*

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It's a function of the multi-party system, and the weird fact that the Queen of England is still nominally the head of our government. But our incumbent Prime Minister has already said he wouldn't challenge the election results. In reality what happens is the winning party finds they don't have enough votes in parliament to pass anything, so they hold another election (ours don't happen on a set date).

You probably wouldn't find the Tories (Conservative party) as scary as all that. They're really not that far off from the Republicans, but in a socialist, heavily multi-cultural country like ours privatized healthcare, preemptive wars and religious government start to look like a threat to our way of life. The real problem with them is that all their talent jumped ship years ago after Brian Mulroney left the party a smoking ruin.

For me, I think I'm going to vote NDP. Olivia Chow's running in my riding, and she's more competent than anyone running against her. Yes, their platform is unworkable, but that's academic, isn't it? At least they mean well. The Green party I had written off as the usual leftist flakes but I'm suprised at how pragmatic and broad their platform actually is. Maybe next election.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

I will vote for the hockey puck.

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He was already Prime Minister in the 80s. He was okay on the economy, but didn't really have a firm grasp on foreign policy.

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/PeterPuck.jpg

A few minutes ago the CBC reported the Marxist-Leninists had an early lead in the Mississauga-East riding.

I nearly fell over laughing.

(The lead quickly disappeared.)

Ya, the Marxist Leninists were winning in Mississauga. Now I can call my friends from there Commies. Cuz they cant prove they didnt vote that way...lol.

Anyway, good news! Minority Liberal government with probably NDP Majority support. Meaning the NDP won enough to hold the hammer, but the Liberals will still be the majority party in the government. They got a swift kick in the ass that we all hoped for but not the kick in the balls that we feared.

The Liberals won in my riding, which surprised me. I thought this town was gonna be painted Tory Blue for sure. I'm glad, though. Bonnie Brown has been a fairly good MP (and openly against Bush in parliament.)

Jack Layton won in his riding, which is GREAT. It's kinda sad that Olivia Chow (his wife) didn't win in hers, but that's probably because she was just re-elected to Toronto City Council in November and alot of voters were annoyed by her eagerness to ditch.

Liberals seem to be in there good, but it's a Minority government. That's what this country needs right now. That, and less Bloc seats. Bloc always gets so many.

I give this government six months.

McTeague won in my riding (Liberal). I wasn't surprised. Everyone knows him; he lives down the street from me. I wish that fucker would cut his lawn, though. It's unsightly.

NDP are behind BQ.

Now that is funny.
I don't have a problem with NDP at all, I just find it funny.

The BQ probably won alot of the seats because the seperatists figured they could get a very sweet deal for Quebec if a minority gov gave them power. Only I don't think they figured the NDP would do as well.

Whats funny in a strange sort of way is the Tories could still form the government if they were able to convince the NDP and the Bloq to join them.

I'm satisfied with the election results, the NDP will keep Martin from dealing with Kyoto, child care, proportional representation, gay marriage & pot in a half-assed manner, while not actually running the country and turning the economy to shit. I'm a little worried about the strong Bloc showing and the seperatist movement getting some new momentum, but that's down the road.

The Greens got 4% of the vote too so they'll be receiving some funding, here's hoping they kick the NDP's ass come next election.