Where Do U Stand

[Moonlight_Graham]

I vote for the ABTL party. Anybody But The Liberals.

[Dan #2]

I personally would rather vote for an independent person. I don't believe political parties exist to serve people's interests, but rather their own.

well thats the difference between Conservative/Liberal and NDP/Green. The former are career politicians working for themselves, while the later are concerned citizens in it for change..

[Biggie]

I personally would rather vote for an independent person.  I don't believe political parties exist to serve people's interests, but rather their own.

well thats the difference between Conservative/Liberal and NDP/Green. The former are career politicians working for themselves, while the later are concerned citizens in it for change.

And that's one of the biggest bullshit statements I've ever heard. ;)

[Matt]

All people in political parties are "career politicians". But you can be a "career politician" and be interested in change...

[Bizud]

Public opinion polls suggest the Canadian people heavily support most aspects of the NDP platform. True, if you ask people if they want their taxes lowered they'll say yes, but ask them to rank their preferences for how money should be spent and most rank health care, education, and the social safety net well ahead of tax cuts. It's somewhat puzzling, then, that people with these beliefs still vote Liberal and Conservative. The former have been slowly dismantling the institutions that the overwhelming majority of Canadians want and are immensely proud of for over a decade now, and the latter complains that the liberals aren't doing it fast enough. Similarly, most Canadians oppose further integration with the United States - yet the Liberals have been slowly moving ahead with their integrationist plans anyway, and the Conservatives, again, want to move even faster.

 

Anybody but Libs or Cons.

[Matt]

The N.D.P. is too left wing, to an extremer point than the Liberals. The Conservatives used to be more towards the middle right, when they were the Progressive Conservatives. Some people may still think they're in the middle right. In times of prosperity, people tend to stay in the middle. People in the praries are fed-up, which is why they have voted right, very right, in the last decade. With that said, I'd rather trust the Liberals with the country than the Conservatives, N.D.P., and Greens.

Edited January 17, 2005 by Matt

[Radiohead]

Marxist-Leninist, all the way.

 

Proletarian Dictatorship is the wave of the future.

 

Screw the Bourgeois Democracy.

 

Vote Communist.

[rmak]

if you can't trust the greens, then its a sad world. i have never met a corrupt green.

[Bizud]

Well, the Greens are perfectly content to let people think they're a leftist party. That's not corrupt, but it's hardly honest.

[Mick]

I would Liberal as I feel they are the best choice of compromise. The Conservatives did not have any platform at the time of the last election and they still have not formulated any party policy. The NDP seem to be lacking of useful criticism of the government, i.e. protest vote of Bill C-5: money for post-secondary education as they felt that the funding was inadequate. Education funding is party of their platform, I feel that every little bit helps. Also their social agenda seems a little too extreme for Canada. The Bloc Québécois is simpliy a party that wishes to divide Canada, further I do not wish to support that. The Green Party lacks offical party status, no further comment on that. The Liberal Party seems to have the best compromise between socialistic views and economic efficiency. Despite the sponsorship scandal, I feel they are the best choice.

[regularguy]

I challenge anyone to visit the green party website and find anything in their policy and platform that they genuinely disagree with. It is just common sense, and honestly, its the future of the world.

www.greenparty.ca

[Biggie]

I challenge anyone to visit the green party website and find anything in their policy and platform that they genuinely disagree with. It is just common sense, and honestly, its the future of the world.

www.greenparty.ca

Well, instead of breaking down their platform and critiquing it, I think it's easier for me to just write that I am against big government, and that's exactly what the Greens would create. It's not common sense to me and if it's the future of the world, then please stop it because I want off. ;)

 

That said...

 

The Green Party will hold a national referendum on choices for the reform of the Canadian Senate, including choices between direct election, abolition and the status quo.

 

...this is the only party I've found to include Senate reform in their platform, so mad props to them.

[Kayriss]

I think my vote will really depend on how the missile defence thing gets handled. It's been a trend since Confederation that politicians that stray to far into the field of pro-americanism get kicked. The level to which we are now merged has been gradual, and when someone proposes something too drastic, we get skittish and that politician goes home. I'll forever cherish that great Mulroney loss, 163 seats to 2.

I vote Liberal because I really don't have any huge problems with the way the country's been run under Cretien.

[illestvillain]

I feel this country needs serious social reform not a Prime Minister who does nothing.

 

NDP

[MakesYouAWeapon]

I'd vote Conservative. I prefer minority governments.

[illestvillain]

Why conservative? And Why a Minority Government?

[wonks]

I would proudly vote liberal.

[illestvillain]

Liberal isn't so bad but Paul Martin's gotta go

[wonks]

yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Martin, but I can't stand Harper.

[illestvillain]

agreed

 

Harper's a bigot

Layton Has potential

Martin is useless

[MakesYouAWeapon]

Why conservative? And Why a Minority Government?

1. Conservatives will never win. They'd sweep every election if they ran the Canadian parties in the US Elections because their smarmy and elitist atttitude is the closest we have to the two American political parties. The fact that they are way too far to the right from what the majority of Canadians feel means they will never get voted in, until they get enough money to start rigging elections.

 

2. I like a minority government because it ensures that the party essentially has to tow the middle line. There's no "mandate" as we see in the States, where the party can make it legal to kill gays, blacks, immigrants, but not babies. I lean pretty far to the left, but not so far left that I want a party like the green party to waste my money saving the emos... errr, emus, because then there'd be no emu burgers at the PNE and those are damn fine burgers. Essentially, I'd rather we had a weak and ineffective government then one that would transform the nation to fit them with their radical policies, from either side of the sprectrum.

 

Plus, the liberals are secretly conservatives anyway.

[Bizud]

"A weak and ineffectual government" is exactly what the Liberals and Conservatives want anyway.

[Biggie]

That's the best kind of government.

 

I think my vote will really depend on how the missile defence thing gets handled. It's been a trend since Confederation that politicians that stray to far into the field of pro-americanism get kicked.

 

Who came up with that trend? Diefenbaker went down on a nationalist platform, and Pearson was elected on strengthening ties with America.

[bigcanadiano]

I honestly don't think that Harper calls Martins bluff if an election is to be based, on the issue of same-sex marriage?

 

Martin would win a majority government.

[Bizud]

That is, sadly, the truth. And the longer the minority situation prevails the better.