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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: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @06:40AM (6 children)
The only decent party is called Alliance of the North. They are tiny and hopeless because Canadians hate freedom and their own children.
Your next best choice is the Conservatives. I tallied up political platform positions taken. It's like this:
Conservatives: 75% good
Liberals: 33% good
NDP: 29% good
Greens: 0% good
I don't have much hope here. It looks like the future of Canada is to be a base for jihad against the USA. Anybody with a brain will find that their personal economic situation is better in a place without a welfare state, so they will leave unless Canada implements restrictive exit visas to prevent brain drain.
Entropy takes a toll on every great nation. Prosperity can not last forever. People sacrifice to create prosperity, and then they get comfy with it and they get lazy and it becomes politically insensitive to keep up the fight to remain prosperous. Canada is going down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
They are just another Lutheran Reformed offshoot - a particularly Canadian cancer mostly modelled on Pat Robertson's successful religion-based takeover of American politics in the 80s. Socially regressive (not conservative), and racist as fuck. They might as well have a sign out front saying "No Niggers (apply at service entrance)".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @05:27AM
All non-leftists are slandered as racist. The word is starting to take on a new meaning: non-leftist.
I will now assume that AN does a fine job of caring for people of all races. I'd vote for them based on your reaction alone, since that tells me AN is good for Canada.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Snow on Wednesday September 04 2019, @07:03PM (3 children)
There is more to life than money.
Look at this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/us-news--world-report-top-10-best-countries-in-the-world-in-2019-.html [cnbc.com]
If you think the USA is the land of the free, think again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @05:21AM (2 children)
Any "best country" list that features nordic countries is nonsense. Taxes are horrible, government control of families is oppressive, and Sweden has massive problems with rape and grenade attacks. Yeah, **grenade** attacks, due to recently introduced "diversity". They also get trucks of peace -- that is, driven in to holiday crowds to the sound of Alahu Akbar.
These are generally countries that suppress free speech. You can go to prison for misgendering a tranny or for doing a Roman (Hitler) salute. That isn't freedom.
The right to self-defense is mostly absent. For example in the UK, it is illegal to carry any tool (even pepper spray) for the purpose of defending against crime. That isn't freedom.
So yes, by comparison, the USA is the land of the free.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Thursday September 05 2019, @02:57PM (1 child)
Funny... when I think of oppressive family government control, the first thing that pops into my mind if the USA trying to restrict abortions. Sweeden does apparently have a rape problem, but so does the USA. Rapes per capita is 16(!) times higher than Canada.
You speak of 'trucks of peace' when the USA has near daily mass shootings. The USA has the highest incarceration rate of any first world country.
All you Americans with your guns for 'safety' makes everyone scared so they have to have a gun to be safe. It's a vicious circle that ends in violence and fear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @09:42PM
It's just a matter of human rights.
https://i.redd.it/0g9jzxz9l7l31.jpg [i.redd.it]