2011 Canadian Election - Page 5

On April 13 2011 13:10 Destro wrote:
I will always vote conservative until the day the liberals can regain their dignity and accountability. Bring back cretien imo. Sick of these spineless leaders. Harper is the only leader that has the resolve to be a prime minister.

On April 13 2011 13:43 Vysen wrote:
woah, how many political parties does Canada have?

On April 13 2011 13:28 Krytha wrote:


Ironically, Stephen Harper campaigned on honesty, transparency and respect for tax payers. Now we have lies, secrecy, and gross misspending of tax dollars everywhere you look.

On April 13 2011 12:56 Krytha wrote:
Harper also claims that he is putting Canada back on the path to economic recovery? The only reason Canada is in the ok shape that it is in right now is because of the Liberal banking policies implemented by Paul Martins government. Under Harper, the economy is still stagnant and the total amount of jobs has decreased. The unemployment rate is currently around 7.7% and many of those created are mcjobs that pay minimum wage. Youre not going to be able to use those tax credits or tax free savings with a job like that.

On April 13 2011 13:43 Vysen wrote:
woah, how many political parties does Canada have?

On April 13 2011 13:54 Oboeman wrote:
The Vancouver Sun had an internet livestream going with Elizabeth May, to try to allow her to participate in the debate (one-way) since she got locked out. It was a great idea and a noble plan but unfortunately the quality was so bad that I gave up and went back to watching the official debate.
It was too bad, because last election, she kicked ass during the debate, always being the first one to call out any of the other leaders and catch them in a lie (and as always there is a lot of lying and deliberate misinformation in the debate).

Overall pretty good debate. I wish they'd have an extra moderator with a whiffle bat anytime someone got caught in a lie.
Like harper denying the corporate tax cuts, denying the coalition to replace Paul Martin, and Jack Layton dodging the Bill 101 question.

Good performance especially from Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, I think.

I felt Harper's attempt to construe the contempt of parliament non-confidence motion as an opposition scheme to pull an election backfired in the face of the other three's points about honesty, accountability, and democracy.
To me it came off as quite whiny - "we're only having this election because YOU guys weren't listening to ME, and you guys ganged up on MEE. It's not fair!". This was reinforced by him practically begging for a majority so he can have his way.
Whereas the other guys focused on earning the trust of the house and how important co-operation is in a minority.

On April 13 2011 15:27 SolidMotion wrote:
To be honest... The party who gets my vote is the one that's going to do something about internet fees and gouging...

www.openmedia.ca

So far it's looking better but man... our internet sucks...

On April 13 2011 15:53 SichuanPanda wrote:


Yea too bad having all the parties bicker at each-other in parliament when no party has a majority government is retarded. I'm not entirely sure how that seems whiny in the least bit because quite simply, any meaningful bills, bills that would have made a good example of Harper's government were immediately stomped down by the other parties in 'Coalition Government'. Which by the way is a horribly short-sighted loophole in Canadian politics. Harper's government cannot make any meaningful changes because the other parties in parliament immediately squash any and all of his bills that might make him look good - for fear of said bills making their parties lose votes.

The reality of the situation in Canadian politics right now is we have to select the party which will screw up the least, not the one that is the best, as they are all horrendous. Personally I would say the NDP has never had the opportunity to run the country and since it has been so long since that party's inception most people don't even consider voting for them, despite whether or not their platform is good. Moreover their heavy reliance on social programs and strong catering towards union labor would create just as unfavorable of an atmosphere as catering to big business CAN create (of course catering to business is not bad, if done correctly.) Having people who know a relative or a good friend in a union and can get them a job in it, and also those who merely scrape by using the union as a crutch take all the jobs away from hard working people is equally bad to giving the ultra rich breaks which are not deserved.

Liberal really should never be voted for under any circumstances, their solution to every single political, economical, and social issue is to A. Create a new government sanctioned company to control whatever the issue is, or B. Throw money at the problem through taxes until the goes away, or until the tax payers have had enough and give up pushing whichever issue may have originally come up.

The option we are left with is Conservative, I personally do not find Harper to be a very solid leader, however, he is a better option than Micheal 'I Come Back To Canada After 30 Years To Get Power And That's All' Ignatief, Jack 'Grandpa' Layton, or Gilles 'Separator' Ducceppe.

People always talk about how 'Harper's government hasn't done anything' and to many degrees this is true, but what they also haven't done is caused massive scandals, squandered billions of dollars on near useless ideas (have you all forgotten the gun registry fiasco?), create countless unnecessary social initiatives which are done in an effort to 'create jobs' but all they really create is more superficial government jobs which actually degrade the quality of and the number of jobs available in the private sector.

Every year the number of people employed directly by the government increases, what is going to happen to the value of our economy when over 70% of the people work for the government? Think about it. In what rational world would it make sense that 30% of the population works outside of the government and the rest don't. Those 30% are going to become plebeian slaves who pay 85% of their wages in taxes to support the rest. Evidently this cannot occur in a civilized society.

Canada is continually slipping in downward spiral of increased regulation in business, as well as personal and daily life alike, government jobs are on the rise, as are taxes for almost all consumers, and if we decide to vote in Liberal again we are going to continue down the slippery slope of extreme socialist tendencies, into the pit of communism. I'm sorry but I have to say it, the path we are headed on is going towards that direction. There is little difference between having a dwindling private sector, a rising public sector, and a rising unemployment level - and fully becoming communist. Maybe that's what Canada wants though, I mean with the way people continue to vote for the obviously insufficient Liberal or NDP parties it would be hard to think otherwise.

I for one do not want this, and any sane, rational human being in Canada who agrees with me would be smart to vote Conservative. Everyone needs to stop having selfish reasons to vote, and vote the only reason that matters - the good of the country. If you don't have that in mind when you go into the both and when you weigh your options for leaders, then do us all a favor, don't vote at all.




The Liberals talk very strong words about their policy for the internet, however, given their continual track record of using high-profile issues to get the votes they need to get in, and then proceeding to simply do as they please doesn't bode very well for voting based purely on this issue alone. Another reason not to vote - if you are voting for one single issue.

On April 13 2011 13:43 Vysen wrote:
woah, how many political parties does Canada have?

On April 13 2011 16:34 FlyingSheeps wrote:


Zillion anyone can start a political party and run for any Seat and as there are no general election's for Prime Minster they simply need to win Majority to run Canada xD

There are 5 major parties,

Conservatives,
Liberals,
NDP,
Bloc,
Green,