our election is less than a week away and it's getting fun to watch the jockeying for position and the changing of strategies.
we have 4 main parties:
the conservatives, currently in power with a minority.
the liberals, a centrist party and hard to figure if they lean left or right.
the new demorcrats, a left wing party slowly moving to the center.
the bloc quebecois, a french party only in quebec that wants to separate from canada.
when the campaign first started the conservatives and liberals put out attack ads on each other and didn't really attack the new democrats. then the new democrats started putting out attack ads on the liberals which was funny because there is always talk of a new democrat/liberal coalition to battle the conservatives. the new democrats, liberals and conservatives by and large ignored the bloc quebecois. then the fun started.
the new democrats have recently had a good increase in popularity and now rank second to the conservatives and ahead of the liberals. in the past this was unthinkable. the new democrats were always a distant third to the conservatives and liberals. now the liberals and new democrats are attacking each other and giving the conservatives a pass. the main increase in the new demorcrats popularity is coming from quebec so the bloc quebecois is now also attacking the new democrats. all this is helping the conservatives so they're happy as pigs in shit because they are now looking at forming a majority government.
two big shot liberal candidates are former new democrat premiers. when they moved to federal politics they joined the liberals because being a liberal gave them a better chance of forming government and all the riches that go along with power. now the former new democrats are attacking their former party and urging voters to do the same.
when the new democrats were behind in the polls no one really paid much attention to all their promises but now people are asking how they are going to pay for all their spending. so far their only response is higher corporate taxes which sounds nice but it's the biggest pile of shit in the world. corporations don't pay taxes, people pay taxes. when corporate taxes are lowered the dividend tax credit is reduced so share holders collecting dividends pay more taxes and when corporate taxes are increased the dividend tax credit is increased so share holders collecting dividends pay less taxes. it's all a fucking shell game.
i love you sons of bitches.
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Anyone that bases their government, as you folks did, on our form of government, is fucked.
Everyone keeps forgetting, or simply doesn't know or doesn't understand. That the forefathers knew that the country and system they were setting up was just an experiment.
And that the constitution was just a goddamn piece of paper. Get the fuck over it.
But we love you sons a bitches. :-)
billy - is there a country anywhere in the world where the electorate are happy with their government?
your crazies are as crazy as our crazies..
Wasn't there a referendum in Quebec that settled the independence issue? Why don't French Canadians like you English speakers?
yellowdog - we don't have any palins or bachmans etc so i think you're may be a wee bit more extreme. ours are usually so politically correct i want to puke.
gb - yes they had a referendum and lost by a small margin. when the polls signal a new referendum may be successful i expect the whole thing to repeat itself.
Man, that made my head swim. I'd just have to roll the dice to decide who to vote for up there. It's all a shell game down here too.
tex - yeah, it's all bullshit. after the federal election we're probably going to have a provincial election.
it's enough to make me start drinking.
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I gotta be honest enough to say I don't really know anything about Canadian politics but I can say I like that Bobby Darin song. Being 47, it could be said it's a little dated for my normal taste in music but I like it. Very soothing. Hell, good music is good music. You can't go by when it was made.
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