Canadian elections are always ridiculous
Of course they are. Since elections always bring out a lot of anger in people over various party policies and platforms, we have to find
some reason to laugh about it.
Is that what that was when Trudeau danced behind the Queen??
That was probably the most famous pirouette in Canadian history, moreso than the best one ever done by the most elite ballerina.
what is so bad about the conservatives anyway?
Have you got a few hours?
I could live with a Conservative government, but Stephen Harper has to go.
The thing is, the present "Conservatives" are not real Conservatives. They're Reform-Alliance party members
calling themselves Conservatives. The only
true Conservative I would respect as Prime Minister these days is Joe Clark - and it's highly unlikely he would stand a chance with all the current schemers and backstabbers. It's like the '80s all over again as far as he's concerned, and I would actually be surprised if he came out of whatever it is he's doing now to get back into politics.
The campaigning has already begun, the Conservatives have put ~$26 million of public money towards their own ads iirc.
Which I have never seen. Turns out there actually
are blessings in not having a working TV after all.
I so want to run as a Bloc candidate outside Quebec.
Count me among those still confused as to how the BQ could possibly be considered a "Federal" party when they only run candidates in
one province, and their mandate is to break up the country. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or curse when the Bloc became Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition back in the '90s.
Trudeau is the best politician of all time.
Every time we have some kind of crisis either in the country or in the world where Canada is heavily involved (ie. 9/11), I wish Trudeau was still alive and still Prime Minister. My first thought, when I see the bumbling around that the later PMs did, is "
Trudeau would have known what to do!"
I'm under the impression, though it could be faulty, that there's not much the federal government can do about Alberta's destructive practices.
There isn't much the Albertans can do, either. The provincial government doesn't care. The most recent example of how much they don't care is when they shrugged off the plight of a building full of condo owners who were evacuated in a 10-minute time frame, around
midnight, because their building was about to fall down. This is in Fort McMurray, where all the new construction is going on due to the oil boom. So the government allows and encourages a population boom there as well, shady contractors come in and build horribly shoddy housing, unsuspecting people buy in, and then this happens. They ask for the government to help them - since housing is scarce in Fort McMurray - and even though their local MLA wants to help them, the relevant government minister shrugged it off and said it's not his problem.
Then it's as good as dead. The question has been settled and there's no way that's becoming an issue to be revisited again
I wish you were right, but you have no idea how well financed this party is (mostly by religious fundamentalists) and how advanced their propaganda is.
The progressive Canada that everyone knew is in serious jeopardy.
How the hell are they going to convince people to revoke existing marriages and block new ones? Just won't happen. Now that it's the status quo, most people don't care and will think anyone bringing it up again is a little weird.
This is Canada, things do not have to make sense.
Maybe, with Stockwell Day retiring, things will make a little bit more sense. However, that's balanced by Jason Kenney
not retiring, so no real gain is likely.
Screw reform. I really am one of few remaining advocates of FPTP. I voted for STV in the BC referendum, but I won't have any of that at the federal level.
FPTP is why I have never adequately had my own views represented in either Edmonton or Ottawa. If I know the name of the Red Deer candidate who will be running, I automatically know who will win here - because it would never occur to most of the Red Deer voters to vote anything but Conservative.