06-11-2004, 05:01 PM
Shadow said everything I was thinking.
Our electoral system is ridiculous, and borders on non-democratic. It's insane that a party can get a vast, VAST, majority of seats without having at least half of the vote (some cases less than 1/3rd). The system just plain doesn't work. That's why Britain, Scotland, Austraila and other commonwealth countries have already abandonded the FPtP system.
Good news is that most provinces have already set up citizen based electoral reform committees; B.C., Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick if I recall correctly.
My vote is for the NDP, simply because I'd like to see some real liberals get into office, and not these tax-loving Liberals currently in office. A friend of mine is voting Green just because he doesn't want to vote Liberal.
What cheeses me off is that in Ontario, McGinty of the Ontario Liberals broke a campaign promise, adding an extra tax to health care (health care premium), defying the Federal Liberals. Sadly, with the way things are going for the Liberals, the Ontario Liberal party's actions are more based in reality than the Federal Liberals, who seem to be in denial. McGinty did what he thought he had to do, and Paul Martin (our Prime Minister who we didn't even ELECT!) is sitting on his high horse, acting like the Ontario Liberals are just some rouge government. They need to get it together!
No more Liberal waste is what I say. Instead, I want to see some NDP waste! If our system is reformed to a majority representation system (like it should be) I would vote Green, but since they have practically no chance of getting any number of seats, I'm sticking with the NDP. Oh yeah, and the platform is nice blah blah blah. Refer to Pete's post. ;)
Our electoral system is ridiculous, and borders on non-democratic. It's insane that a party can get a vast, VAST, majority of seats without having at least half of the vote (some cases less than 1/3rd). The system just plain doesn't work. That's why Britain, Scotland, Austraila and other commonwealth countries have already abandonded the FPtP system.
Good news is that most provinces have already set up citizen based electoral reform committees; B.C., Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick if I recall correctly.
My vote is for the NDP, simply because I'd like to see some real liberals get into office, and not these tax-loving Liberals currently in office. A friend of mine is voting Green just because he doesn't want to vote Liberal.
What cheeses me off is that in Ontario, McGinty of the Ontario Liberals broke a campaign promise, adding an extra tax to health care (health care premium), defying the Federal Liberals. Sadly, with the way things are going for the Liberals, the Ontario Liberal party's actions are more based in reality than the Federal Liberals, who seem to be in denial. McGinty did what he thought he had to do, and Paul Martin (our Prime Minister who we didn't even ELECT!) is sitting on his high horse, acting like the Ontario Liberals are just some rouge government. They need to get it together!
No more Liberal waste is what I say. Instead, I want to see some NDP waste! If our system is reformed to a majority representation system (like it should be) I would vote Green, but since they have practically no chance of getting any number of seats, I'm sticking with the NDP. Oh yeah, and the platform is nice blah blah blah. Refer to Pete's post. ;)
"Yay! We did it!"
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*