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Canadian Election Fever!

 
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Who are you voting for in this election?
Liberal
15%
 15%  [ 3 ]
Conservative
21%
 21%  [ 4 ]
NDP
21%
 21%  [ 4 ]
The Bloc
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Green
26%
 26%  [ 5 ]
Other
15%
 15%  [ 3 ]
Total Votes : 19

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Octavius Hite



Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:23 pm    Post subject: Canadian Election Fever! Reply with quote

Who will you vote for and tell us why?

I'm voting for the Greens because they're the only party that has yet to screw the taxpayers.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh shit does this mean I have to feel guilty about being too lazy to register as an absentee voter again? I can either register for a riding where the Conservatives / Reform always win by 75% or one where the Liberals do. Unless I can register for one where my vote could help the Tories lose, I really don't think I can be bothered this time round.
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Pangit



Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends on who is up for candidacy in my riding and what they plan to do back home.
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Alias



Joined: 24 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Liberal. Not that I'm a supporter. Its just the other options are worse IMHO.

Until they change the "first past the post system" I don't feel like wasting my vote on a so-called 'third party". Actually, in my riding we don't even have a Green Party.
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Canadian political system is so balkanized-- no matter how I vote, the Conservatives will win in my riding (Alberta), and they will make no difference at all because they will be outnumbered by Ontario Liberals. The entire system is hopelessly gridlocked, and I see no practical way out.

If I were at home, I would vote Green just because they're not one of the mainline parties. But I'm not voting, because in a sense I've already voted with my feet; I got sick of paying taxes to a government I don't support, and I left. My rant (see other thread on this Cool ).

Ken:>
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PEIGUY



Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:48 am    Post subject: Re: Canadian Election Fever! Reply with quote

Octavius Hite wrote:
Who will you vote for and tell us why?

I'm voting for the Greens because they're the only party that has yet to screw the taxpayers.


Key word above being yet.. i dont' have any faith in any political party to be honest.. Just amazes how bureacracy works in a country.. give any party long enough time in power and see what they do with the money. Where I'm from it doesn't matter.. we have 4 MP's and they all have brought home the bacon (ie federal money and lots of it) so they're not going to be booted out..
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Wrench



Joined: 07 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Usually vote conservative. Well because they are lesser of the two evils. Friggen liberal hippies.

Ralphy should be the PM. Canada would own.
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Bob O.



Joined: 20 Oct 2005
Location: The 'San

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gotta go Green. I think they are the only party that is actually offering an actual alternative. I think the Libs, Conservatives, and NDP are all the same shit, different pile.

Alias wrote:
Actually, in my riding we don't even have a Green Party.


Where do you live? Last time 'round, the Greens ran candidates in all 308 ridings.
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jlb



Joined: 18 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Conservatives...I'm a true Albertan redneck at heart.
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Red



Joined: 05 Jul 2004

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only difference between the parties is which group of yahoos they'll cater to for votes. They're all crooks in suits.

Anyway, it'd be a shame if the corrupt rednecks gain power instead of some corrupt lefties. Socially, Canada has made so many strides towards becoming a civilized country, I'd hate to see it undone because a bunch of Alberta hillbillies think married gays will make the oil dry up.
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jlb wrote:
Conservatives...I'm a true Albertan redneck at heart.


Ditto.

Where ya from?
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