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[ToraToraTora]

Canada is having an election. It will be on June 28th, from what I hear from insiders. Basically, there are 4 major parties. I use the term major very, very liberally, since really, only two parties have the chance of winning.



With Canadian politics, we vote for MPs, which determine the Prime Minister. We have the following candidates:



Bloc Quebecois - Gilles Duceppe

Conservative Party of Canada - Stephen Harper

Liberal Party of Canada - The Rt. Hon. Paul Martin

New Democrat Party of Canada - Jack Layton



Really, only those that can be considered contenders are the conservatives and liberals. So..who do you want as out prime minister?



I personally have to say Martin. I was a PC before my party dissolved into the conservatives. I cannot bring myself to vote conservative because of the leader (he engineered the alliance takeover, as i see it), so I will vote Liberal. Its a bad situation. You have the party i hate on one side, and the corrupt party i hate lsightly less on the other.



I refuse to vote NDP. Bloc I cannot vote for, because they only run in Quebec, and are, in my opinion, traitors.



Good thing provincially I may still vote for my beloved PCs.

[ToraToraTora]

Election is looking like it will be called on Sunday,for a June 28th election.

[LedZep04]

I don't really care about Canadas prime minister but .. yeah goodluck canada..

[Paris In Flames]

Goddamn! Get a Liberal in there! I'm not from Canada, but I say that you guys should have a liberal prime minister! If only America could have that...



Cheers!



Jenna

[ToraToraTora]

Originally posted by Paris In Flames@May 20 2004, 09:20 PM

Goddamn! Get a Liberal in there! I'm not from Canada, but I say that you guys should have a liberal prime minister! If only America could have that...



Cheers!



Jenna

We do have a liberal prime minister. I can't believe I'll end up voting for them. the liberals have fucked our country right up the ass. We have no worldwide respect, are in debt, granted, we always have been, and we've been making strides in the right direction. Remember..our liberals are not your liberals. Our old PCs were liek your democrats. The Conservatives are in betwee nyour demos and repubs.



Oh well, the PM is at least fiscally conservative...

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Update:



Election called for June 28th.

[broken4ubyu]

Well, lets hope you guys get a conservative. You guys really need one right now to bost that old economy of yours.

[Brad]

Votin' for the Green Party. They are the only party that I support in the election, even though they don't have a hope of winning.



Still, I would be content if the conservative party won, because we need the liberal party monopoly of this country to be ended. Too bad the conservatives seem to want us to become simply another state of the US.

[ToraToraTora]

Wow, it's awesome how our candidate for the NDP claims to respect the elderly so much, then makes this comment on a weblog:



I would like to see Ken Nicol and Rick Casson (a.k.a the old men running for the Liberals and Conservatives) do tomorrow in my shoes ...



I dislike her because she is taking votes away from a good liberal, and putting in an ineffective conservative. Again.

[ToraToraTora]

To the person who voted for layton: hippie.



*no disrespect intended*

[four]

Hippie is not an insult Tora.

[Mau-Mau]

its the conservatives that r going to win for sure. I donno if you live in canada but there has been so many things against the liberals being passed around in the newspapers and stuff if anyone votes for them they r really going out on a limb.

[Brad]

And the Liberals have won it again. But not without cost; it's a minority government.



It will be interesting to see if things change for Canada.

[Doug]

So, do Liberals or Conservatives control it now? There's no canadian news in America, so I have to rely on you guys.



Doug

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