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We have an election coming in October.
The main choices are (I'm not going into Quebec's BQ party: it is just provincial to Quebec)
1. Conservatives: like the Republicans in the US
2. Liberals: like Democrats
3. NDP: historically a workers/union party (more liberal than the Liberals)
4. Greens: you know them (more or less the new kids on the block)
Current polls, with a month and a half-ish to go show Liberals winning, possible majority.
Conservatives a close second and NDP and Greens close third and fourth.
The NDP and conservatives are sliding down in support, the Liberals and Greens going up.
The Conservatives are sliding, the rumour is, because of the Doug Ford effect. Remember his brother Rob Ford who went down to the States and did the talk show route and entertained everyone with his goofiness/salesmanship, etc? He was then mayor of Toronto and coke user (if memory serves....errrr...it probably doesn't).
Doug is just as goofy: he has a way of pissing off his own party members with his silliness.... And he has pissed off enough people in Ontario (with his Conservative cuts and buffoonery) that it is making people across Canada wary of voting Conservative.
The NDP have a leader who seems oddly not really a leader: he doesn't seem to be making much of an impression and his party is declining in popularity.
The Greens have been on the rise for the last, say 15ish years?, slowly supplanting the NDP as the third party of choice. They seem to have great momentum, probably as the other parties have been ignoring the environment.
Both the conservatives and the liberals have been pandering to the oil industry (and I totally get the need for oil, but not while ignoring green alternatives) and the Liberals have tried to help Alberta get their oil to market but not successfully and at great cost.
I can't say that the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, fills me with confidence, but the Conservatives....
Just to own up (can't think of the proper phrase): I will, unless something weird happens, be voting Green AGAIN. I'm voting for the future (and a chance to have political upheaval): I think my daughter is in a good relationship and we will probably be having grand kids. I'm voting for THEIR future...and HOPEFULLY a change in the electoral process.
Breaking news:
Pierre Nantel has just crossed the floor from the NDP to join the Green party.
Good news? Who knows,but could mean the momentum is with the Greens.
WOW!
The Greens just picked up ANOTHER 14 candidates from the NDP (all from New Brunswick). 14 people crossed the floor. Democracy in action!
They are now the #3 party for the number of candidates running for office.
The NDP now we only had the candidates they SHOULD be running.
A coup in the works?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @01:12AM (5 children)
So they would like to have an open southern border too? What time's breakfast?
And that's a grand shame that they are declining in popularity. If Canadian society is anything like the US, we need a party that stands up for labor, and not demographic replacement, cultivation of a permanent underclass dependent on handouts, and a new gender per citizen per day.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:56AM
Wow, look, yet another straw man about Democrats. It's fine to disagree with them, but if you can't even address their actual arguments, then you're just a partisan retard.
(Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Tuesday September 03 2019, @06:00AM (3 children)
We have a long history of accepting American refugees looking for freedom. Conservatives during your revolution, black people escaping being owned, natives who considered us less evil, kids who didn't want to go to Vietnam, Americans looking to leech of our healthcare and so on.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @05:21PM (2 children)
Yeah, I was going to run to Canada once, when I ran away from home. But, they told me that I'd have to go to school up there too. You don't accept just any American refugees!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday September 03 2019, @05:38PM
School good!
Learn lots.
Stare at girls.
Maybe get diploma, but who care.
Stare at girls.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:04PM
Depending on where you're coming from or going to you might have ended up in a better school in Canada. But in Quebec you'd likely have learned French in elementary school, even if you were admitted to an English-language elementary school.