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[theweaselking]

NDP and CPC change their minds, think the Greens should be allowed into the debates.

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[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I saw that. :) I'm glad, I think the Green Party deserves a chance (to either look foolish or show they've got good ideas). I dunno if the Bloc were okay, but at least the main 3 approved.

Yay Canada! Where backlash from voters will CHANGE things in the election campaign.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

At least until America goes fully fascist under McCain and liberates the shit out of Canada.

[glitteringlynx.livejournal.com]

You remember what happened last time the US tried to "liberate" Canada, right? ;) With the US military largely overseas and losing thousands of troops, you'd probably need a draft.

I realise that it's not 1812 anymore, but still. Also, we're part of NATO, so the US would also have to combat all the other members of NATO.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

I would have had no problem with the Green party being denied a role in the debates if the reason was that they have no representation in parliament. the fact that they were denied a role in the debates because the other party leaders would refuse to show up if they were invited was utter bullshit.

And if the Bloc still refuses to show up if Elizabeth May is there, then ... oh, well.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh good... typical process though. The Liberals stick their necks out on a good idea that Canadians like, and then the Conservatives and NDP jump on the bandwagon once there's an outcry about how they're blocking it. Soon they'll be pretending that they supported it all along. Not long after that, they'll tell us how it was their idea.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

They do have representation in parliament (One mp) and a ton of the popular vote.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call 4% "a ton", and there has never been a member of the Green Party elected. Their sole MP is a defector who was elected a Liberal.

And no, you don't get to say "The BQ only has 10%", because they don't have 10%. They have *42%* of all the votes they are eligible for.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

4% of 30 million is a ton in my books. At least they had enough candidates to form a majority government, which gives them more support then the bloc.

Sorry, I long for proportional representation in some fashion so that votes actually mattered. I am sorry to say that your MP for this election has been pre-determined.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm the chairman of the local De-Elect Gordon O'Connor Campaign, because the man is an idiot who doesn't read the bills he supports and doesn't listen to the experts on the matter.

We'll see.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly wish you luck on that front. He has misrepresented me for about two terms now. I am overjoyed that I might be moving into a swing riding.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

(PS: I was in *Ed Broadbent*'s riding before, and John Manley's before that. I'm not exactly new to this hole "my vote doesn't matter because they're going to elect an idiot"[1] thing.)


[1]: Broadbent was a good MP, from a crazy party. Paul Dewar, who replaced Broadbent, was an okay MP from the same crazy party. Manley wasn't actually that bad. O'Connor is fucking nuts, and a card-carrying member of the fucking nuts white supremacist party.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

And how the liberals want to take it away from you.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that too; thanks!