CANADIAN ELECTIONZ 2O11

[007paulwall]

what'd u call me?

[Samapico]

The News & Politics forum should remain serious... I edited your poll "slightly". If you don't want your topic to be serious, do it in the Lounge.

 

 

 

As for the topic... I'm not entirely decided yet, but I'll definitely NOT vote for the conservatives...

[007paulwall]

Conservative ALL the WAY

 

they did a better job dealing with the recession then any other party would.

 

Liberal - Michael Ignatieff just wants to be prime minister and all he does is attack the conservatives and doesnt actually come up with anything of what hes actually going to do to the country.

 

NDP - fuck that, I don't want my taxes raised 1000000%

 

Bloc - why the fuck are they even a party? like honestly wtf would happen if they won... this is the government of CANADA not fucking quebec, fuck i hate seperatists.

 

Green Party - legalize weed yada yada yada, all I know is that we would be fucked because 90% of Canadas income comes from Oil and gas (oilsands) and they would shut them down and the economy would just be overall fucked.

 

Vote Conservative.

[Hakaku]

they did a better job dealing with the recession then any other party would.

How does this statement even make sense? They didn't do anything to help the recession. How do you go so fast from having a record surplus to the major deficit we have now? The reason Canada was able to weather the recession that affected so many countries was because of aggressive policies which were implemented long before. It's stupid to think that any action taken during the recession itself could be seen as helping; really, tax breaks and incentives for defective companies and for the rich? That's your idea of helping the economy? It sure doesn't seem to have done lots or even helped in the States.

 

Bloc - why the fuck are they even a party? like honestly wtf would happen if they won... this is the government of CANADA not fucking quebec, fuck i hate seperatists.

The Bloc can't win. This comment is just full of stupid.

 

Green Party - legalize weed yada yada yada,

The Green Party isn't actually pro-legalizing weed, that's the Weed Party. In fact, they have a number of sections on their website debunking its non-harmfulness and attacking the Weed Party's claims.

 

and they would shut them down and the economy would just be overall fucked.

No, they would strengthen regulations on how oil sands operate, not shut them down. The very purpose of the Green Party is to help reduce the environmental impact of some of our major industries by promoting newer and safer technological advancements whose effects have been studied, tested and approved. This would only affect any new development projects, and so no, it wouldn't hurt the economy.

 

NDP - fuck that, I don't want my taxes raised 1000000%

Love the propaganda, but this can be turned around for any other party. OMG Conservatives spending billions on useless jet airplanes??? OMG Liberals gonna throw my money into useless programs that'll get terminated 2 years down the road?? OMG Green party gonna kill the economy by taxing oil companies?

 

I think we've heard them all from the media no less.

 

The only reasonable way for any party to raise taxes is to do it at a very slow, progressive pace. And the first place everyone but the Conservatives would be looking to hit would be the rich and the wealthy. Why? Because Canada is currently set up so that someone making $128,800 is taxed at exactly the same rate as someone making $500,000 or even $500,000,000,000. The Conservative government has also cut corporate taxes by 25%. So the likelihood of any taxes affecting the majority of the population is really quite low, and will most certainly not be thousands of times greater as you so lovely implied.

 

Liberal - Michael Ignatieff just wants to be prime minister and all he does is attack the conservatives and doesnt actually come up with anything of what hes actually going to do to the country.

Attack the conservatives all the time? Have you watched a single debate? In fact, for several weeks and still Harper's tactic has been to scare everyone away from the Liberals due to the coalition thing (of which he himself has been guilty in the past), and to question Ignatieff's ability to lead the country. Harper did this so that the Liberals would be on the defensive the whole time. However, Ignatieff has been doing a fairly decent job at promoting his own platform and what he does intend on doing, moreso than Harper.

 

If you've watched the debates, however, it was the NDP and the Bloc who were doing a lot of slamming against the Liberals and the Conservatives. And in both the English debate and the French one, Harper really beat around the bush on most of the questions. And Ignatieff, well, he was just a broken record constantly repeating himself.

 

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That aside, using scare tactics to tell others why they shouldn't vote for different parties other than the Conservatives is silly. Why not actually explain, why vote Conservative? Why should I give a damn about them? Why should I not be bothered that they aren't conservative or even fiscally conservative at all? Why should I overlook the fact that their party was found in contempt of Parliament?

[Samapico]

http://sowhatdidimiss.blogspot.com/

 

This says it all.

[Hakaku]

I thought this was interesting: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/04/29/bloc-quebecois-members-support-ndp.html

[Samapico]

Oh god...

 

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/3508/canadady.png

[Hakaku]

It was expected. Vote splitting in key areas essentially gave the Conservatives the upper hand.

 

But now I'm really curious to see how well the NDP holds out in Quebec, and what will come of the Bloc, now that Gilles Duceppe has stepped down as leader.

[007paulwall]

CONSERVAOWNED