• Canada: Harper Government Collapses; Election due early May
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;28865609]I never said the greens were an effective vote I said they were a decent party [editline]28th March 2011[/editline] I always vote, but sometimes effectively voting against the party you don't want is just as efficient as voting for the one you do but will never get. As I said earlier, it's a tactical decision.[/QUOTE] help i don't like conservatives or liberals
[QUOTE=Jakemop;28865687]help i don't like conservatives or liberals[/QUOTE] Which one do you like better, and which other parties have a candidate in your area?
I still love this picture: [img]http://www.billcasselman.com/20070321-subpage-Dion.jpg[/img] Dion was an idiot, I don't think there was a word that came from his mouth that I agreed with.
I totally want to vote [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party]Rhinoceros Party[/url]
C'mon Libs!
Let's just hope that whoever wins, is elected in minority.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOt2Qp0H9G8[/media] Harper likes the Beatles, therefore, he may have my vote.
I love the ad campaign the conservatives are running here. Basically, it goes like this : "WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT MICHAEL IGNATIEFF? HE WANTS TO TAX YOUR IPODS HE WANTS TO REMOVE JOBS FROM SMALL COUNTIES VOTE FOR US." :v:
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28865725]Which one do you like better, and which other parties have a candidate in your area?[/QUOTE] i pretty much dislike them equally and i kind of want to take your approach and dislike one more than the other and the parties in my riding are libs, cons and ndp [QUOTE=ze beaver;28866905]I love the ad campaign the conservatives are running here. Basically, it goes like this : "WHAT DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT MICHAEL IGNATIEFF? HE WANTS TO TAX YOUR IPODS HE WANTS TO REMOVE JOBS FROM SMALL COUNTIES VOTE FOR US." :v:[/QUOTE] yeah man that ad is basically just IGNATIEFF SAID SOME CRAZY SHIT. ITS BAD BELIEVE US. VOTE FOR US.
Voting Liberal.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28865224][img_thumb]http://canadianobserver.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/stephen_harper_victory.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] lol I have to admit that is pretty funny. I also appreciate that no one has broken Godwin's Law in this thread yet (and I assume this was a joke so I'm not going to call it). Anyway, on the topic of healthcare again, as I said, only a damn fool would ever try to go after the system. There are ways to provide both private AND public care that won't divide it into a two tier service (instead, they would be designed to be "competing" services), but considering a 100% public service works in many other countries, it's unnecessary to get into the details. Our system is plagued with inefficiency, over-paid administrators, and abuse by some of the immigrant population. (Long story short, many people do not have pictures on their health cards, and they get their visiting family/friends into the hospitals with their health cards. It's a common enough problem that it has become an election issue in Ontario)
This is going to be my first election I can vote for but I have no idea who I should vote for, they all seem bad.
[QUOTE=The Chef;28866514]I totally want to vote [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party]Rhinoceros Party[/url][/QUOTE] I was involved in my school's model parlement since grade 10. Grade 10: We rolled Rhinoceros Party. We sucessfully passed the bill to abolish the law of gravity in the school. Everyone still follows it though. Lame. Grade 11: We rolled Bloc, and tried to have a platform where we wish to build a solid gold pipe line, pumping cash, as we wish for our school to be concidered a country in Halifax, which is in Halifax, which is in Nova Scotia, which is in Canada, which is on earth, which is in Canada. It failed, as those damn liberals back stabbed us. Grade 12: We rolled Communist, I was from the riding of 'Lenin'. We actually had a good platform of equally distributing food, and school heating. It passed, but barely. The liberal IB kids were out to get us with troll science. (No joke, their main platform was to get a hot air balloon, and leave it in one place, allowing us to travel anywhere in the world in under 24 hours. They also planned to raid the local soccer facility for more parking.) Why couldn't parliament be more like this?
[url]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/968222--candidate-s-posters-defaced-with-rifle-target-symbols?bn=1[/url] My riding made the news. Buncha savages in this town.
So either Conservatives get voted back in or NDP will and the Liberals will still whine and complain.
[QUOTE=Mister Cool;28963074]So either Conservatives get voted back in [b]or NDP will[/b] and the Liberals will still whine and complain.[/QUOTE] :doh:
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;28962958][url]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/968222--candidate-s-posters-defaced-with-rifle-target-symbols?bn=1[/url] My riding made the news. Buncha savages in this town.[/QUOTE] Oh, how nice! That one says "good luck Liberals"!
According to the CBC political compass, I'm very Liberal. Which I completely agree with.
[QUOTE=Armyis1337;28964081]According to the CBC political compass, I'm very Liberal. Which I completely agree with.[/QUOTE] Says I'm closest to the green party. They don't run anyone here though.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28964156]Says I'm closest to the green party. They don't run anyone here though.[/QUOTE] Aw, that sucks. I got all 4 near me. Anything except the Conservatives is fine with me, eh?
The conservatives do a good enough job locally but I don't want them to get much power at the federal level
Compass says I should vote Liberal, but if I lived in Canada, I'd still pick NDP.
[QUOTE=Armyis1337;28964081]According to the CBC political compass, I'm very Liberal. Which I completely agree with.[/QUOTE] That was proven to have a Liberal bias, if I'm not mistaken. I just got told to vote Liberal by the CBC political compass, this thing is a load of crap, though it does have me in about the right place, near centre in the quadrant of social conservatism and the economic left.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;28974922]That was proven to have a Liberal bias, if I'm not mistaken. I just got told to vote Liberal by the CBC political compass, this thing is a load of crap, though it does have me in about the right place, near centre in the quadrant of social conservatism and the economic left.[/QUOTE] Oh I see you've watched that particular Youtube video where the guy chooses one answer the whole way through? Maybe if you thought critically and read through comments after noticing the like/dislike ratio, you'd see his testing methodology is flawed exactly because of how Liberalism is.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;28974922]That was proven to have a Liberal bias, if I'm not mistaken.[/QUOTE] If you're going to say something outlandish you should probably back it up with something, CBC is very reputable. [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=DaCommie1;28974922]social conservatism and the economic left.[/QUOTE] I've seen socially liberal and economically conservative but not the other way around Can you outline your beliefs for me I want to see them
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28975802]If you're going to say something outlandish you should probably back it up with something, CBC is very reputable. [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] I've seen socially liberal and economically conservative but not the other way around Can you outline your beliefs for me I want to see them[/QUOTE] Yeah, I can't really imagine that combo. "I want more social services and government subsidies to schools, but I don't want gays to marry!"
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;28974922]That was proven to have a Liberal bias, if I'm not mistaken. I just got told to vote Liberal by the CBC political compass, this thing is a load of crap, though it does have me in about the right place, near centre in the quadrant of social conservatism and the economic left.[/QUOTE] so you believe in government policy that intervenes in my(anyones) life, but are all for leftward spending? suddenly you make even less sense.
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;28975984]Yeah, I can't really imagine that combo. "I want more social services and government subsidies to schools, but I don't want gays to marry!"[/QUOTE] I want to fund abortion that nobody is allowed to use
I'm a strong believer in the right to defend oneself. I believe that there is a difference between gun ban and gun control, and that you can have the latter without much of the former. I believe in stricter gun licensing and licensing requirements, but making more firearms technically accessible, but only to certain people (I.E. ex-military/police for certain high-power or automatic firearms). I believe that Canada doesn't pay enough attention to its military's budget, but that we should not be involved in Afghanistan. I believe that global warming/climate change is a part of the earth's natural cycle, and that we have little impact on it, but that industry does need to watch out for pollution it spreads into the ecosystems nearby it. I believe that the government should offer a form of basic car insurance if they're going to make it mandatory, that everyone has the right to a good education (including subsidizing tuition costs more) and access to healthcare, but that if someone wants to pay more, they should be able to get better/faster healthcare NOT from the same public system, but in a separate private one. I believe that everyone should have the right to internet access and that UBB is a load of horse shit. I believe that the TSA in overly invasive and the old system worked fine. I believe women should have the right to choose (abortion), but should only be able to terminate early in the pregnancy. I believe religion has no place in the government but that people have the right to practice it if they wish. I believe that a marriage can be between two consenting adults, not just a man and woman, but no more than two adults in one relationship (basically I support gay marriage but not polygamous marriage). I believe there are some crimes people commit that are unforgivable and that some criminals cannot be rehabilitated, and for that reason I support the death penalty. I also believe that teens who commit capital offences should be charged as adults. I'm an odd mix of views that usually end up placing me somewhere in the centre of politics.
You just sound like a regular liberal except you disagree with a scientific consensus on global warming (for some reason), you support the death penalty (pretty deplorable but doesn't swing you that far right), and you don't realize that the TSA doesn't operate in Canada. Separate private healthcare system, meh. I just don't like it because it makes people apathetic to private healthcare and sets the stage for total privatization.
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