Thoughts on upcoming Canadian election? — Page 2

Oh, he's definitely creepy (he seems to lack a soul behind those eyes). But I gotta concede, the Liberal commercials are pretty tasteless, and tactless too. It's not a good idea to smear the opponent with such low blows, when your own party's accountability is being question. You should go for a classier route; this just makes the other guy look better.

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On CTV National yesterday, they said some Liberal members even went on record to say Martin's commercials were tasteless. I'm still on the fence about Liberal or NDP. Will likely vote NDP since I think Conservatives are the clear majority in my riding anyway, so I'd rather my lost vote didn't contribute to Martin's race.

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But I don't know if the Green Party would serve your social conscious, Sabrelady. With the exception of their environmental policies, the Green Party leans right (they support a two-tier health-care system, for instance). They have more in common with the Conservatives than with the Liberals or NDP; indeed, their party leader Jim Harris used to be an active Conservative.

In other news, I've perfected my tongue-in-cheek tribute to Layton and Chow on my blog: http://ramblingcorner.blogspot.com/2006/01/jack-layton-and-olivia-chow-canadas.html

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Updated On: 1/18/06 at 04:15 PM

I cannot vote yet, however I have taken interest in this election.

Our local candidates came to our school and it was very interesting to hear them speak and learn their platforms.

I was most impressed with the NDP's platforms and Layton in general. I will vote NDP in the student election because I feel like If the Conservatives are going to win, I would want to give my vote to the party that is the closest to my beliefs.

Even regardless of the gay marriage issue, the Conservative party in power, especially a majority, is scaring me. They can justify giving grants to the trades and have no intention of giving, and are against, grants for university. Yet they still want more doctors, although the opposite will happen if the government does nothing to combat skyrocketing tuition prices. Their solution for poverty is reducing GST to 5%. This will do nothing for the poor, and in my mind is just a ploy to buy the votes of upper class Canada. Plus, Stephen Harper scares me, haha.

Those are my 2 cents. Too bad my opinion means nothing.

I've already voted since I was going to be out of my riding (west vancouver/sunshine coast) on the 23rd. It was my first time voting, I turned 18 in July.

What surprises me is that amount of teenagers not voting... I've had to kick some of my friends into going to the polls, you'd thinkg we'd learn from our neighbours to the south that every vote matters, nothing is useless... espically since it looks like Harper will win this one, atleast try for a minority government...

I'm actually living in Ottawa now, about a 8 min walk to the parliment buildings so its really exiciting/interesting, especailly since I'm a political science student here at the University of Ottawa

No real surprises tonight, eh? How did your riding turn out?

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My old riding, Richmond, re-elected a Liberal, Raymond Chan. My new riding, Richmond East-Delta, elected a Tory.

At least Olivia Chow finally won and now she'll be heading to Ottawa with Layton!

Watching Harper's speech right now. Those eyes...empty, sociopathic. When he looks down, they just looks like hollow slits.

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Only if those hollow slits are for birthin' purposes and nothin' else now!

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wow, i haven't been on the boards in awhile and its nice to see a thread about canuck politics. I voted NDP today, which wouldn't have mattered because my area is NDP.

My screen name right now: "Its nice to know our country is now safe in the arms of an idiot"

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people are calling harper the "canadian bush"

Its so ironic that canadians have critisized (sp) bush for so much and they still manage to vote for their own doofus.

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Liberals got voted into my hometown riding Bramalea-Malton-Gore.
Conservatives got voted in Peterborough, where I go to school.

I concur. The analysts were saying, "No Canadian's going to want to go back to the polls in a year and a half and go through another $30m election." and I was thinking, what lazy Canadian is she referring to?? I'm there come July 2008!

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