Scarface wrote:I'm from Alberta...
I am a conservative
It's basically a rule that if you're from Alberta you MUST be a conservative.
I'm not too worried about the country falling apart or anything. It just goes to show that the politicians in Canada are every bit as fucked in the head as anywhere else.
i'm pretty clueless about canadian politics, which is sad considering i live here, but why are people all saying that the alternatives to liberal and conservative suck?
what about the green party, for instance?
or are they excluded from the christmas elections?
[xeno]Julios wrote:i'm pretty clueless about canadian politics, which is sad considering i live here, but why are people all saying that the alternatives to liberal and conservative suck?
what about the green party, for instance?
or are they excluded from the christmas elections?
Some of their views are fairly extreme but to be honest, I like their party. The problem is that not enough people share that view so voting for them just splits votes away from the primary 4 parties who have a chance at being elected IMO.
shadd_ wrote:harper will be toast after the next election i'm sure. mckay should take over as party leader and the conservatives may get somewhere.
i can't believe they left harper in this long, stupid cunts. makes me wonder who really is behind the conservatives.
IMO they should ditch that wanker, weed the racists and extremists from their party, and tone down some of the more ultra right-wing policies that they have. I think it would give them a bit more credibility and maybe a good chance at getting elected.
[xeno]Julios wrote:i'm pretty clueless about canadian politics, which is sad considering i live here, but why are people all saying that the alternatives to liberal and conservative suck?
what about the green party, for instance?
or are they excluded from the christmas elections?
Some of their views are fairly extreme but to be honest, I like their party. The problem is that not enough people share that view so voting for them just splits votes away from the primary 4 parties who have a chance at being elected IMO.
yea but with that mentality, the greens will never take off.
It's a paradoxical affair of game theory.
I believe it's best to vote for the party you think is best, rather than make pragmatic choices. In the short run this may have consequences, but in the long run it may pay off greatly.
Jules, the laws would also need to be changed to relate the number of votes proportionally, nationally, to the number of seats for a party. This way the greens could potentially pick up a few seats.
That said, aside from their environmentally conscious image, I suspect they would ravage the Canadian economy if they ever managed to gain a majority government.
Massive Quasars wrote:Jules, the laws would also need to be changed to relate the number of votes proportionally, nationally, to the number of seats for a party. This way the greens could potentially pick up a few seats.
perhaps if they got more votes, there'd be more incentive for such reform to take place.
Massive Quasars wrote:
That said, aside from their environmentally conscious image, I suspect they would ravage the Canadian economy if they ever managed to gain a majority government.
could well be - as i said, i'm clueless about canadian politics
Massive Quasars wrote:Jules, the laws would also need to be changed to relate the number of votes proportionally, nationally, to the number of seats for a party. .
wich presents some of its own problems. do we want to be governed even more than we are by the people in southern ontario/quebec?
in our big, sparsely populated country our current scheme, with its faults, seems to be the best bet currently.
shadd_ wrote:yeah but you gotta agree those quebecers are fuckin morons. they easily beat ontario out for dumbest province.
That would be impossible to do since the 3/4 of the entire population of ontario are disgusting, fat and ugly pieces of shit..everybody in quebec knows ontario ppl all look like worthless trailer park trash hillbillies on crack..ouch.
stay on your side of the line you fucking moronoids..war is coming
