Elections Canada 2011

[MaxGhost]

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My preference is the NDP or the Conservatives, primarily the latter. I love, and hate many things from both parties but overall I'm personally glad the Conservatives won. I hate the NDP/Liberal immigration policy and fiscal policies, which is what I like about the Conservatives, but they aren't close to perfect themselves, as I agree, they do cause a lot of bs, but I think everybody is just getting caught up in the anti-harper hype. I don't think he's NEARLY as bad as people say he is.

You sound american.

[Zageron]

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I'm rather happy with the election results.
NDP kicked ass, and I've found a new respect for Quebec citizens. They abandonds separatism, and voted NDP... Incredible!

Not very impressed with my riding though, ****ing rich ****s.

RT Majority or not, 60% voted against Harper. Don't lose faith- the fault lies with the voting system, not the voters. #elxn41 #tweettheresults

[MaxGhost]

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I just heard stuff on the TV about someone in the Bloc resigning, is that party actually going to continue to exist?

Duceppe (the leader) resigned cause he lost his seat. BQ will still exist, but they will barely have a say in parliament. Hopefully for them they'll regain seats, but I'm personally hoping for an NDP gov. in 2015. Harper is terrible. shitharperdid.com

[TwilightPrincess]

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I was personally hoping for at least an NDP or a Liberal government, but that obviously didn't happen. I agree with you on 2015, because I honestly just can't tolerate the Conservative government anymore. We need to change. Also, that site is now in my bookmarks.

Whatever. I'm calling it a night. What a wasted evening anyway.

[fido123]

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That website seems so incredibly biased it hurts. A bandwagon of anti-harper people are obviously going to have strong biases against harper. At least try to form an opinion by educating yourself from multiple media backgrounds. There's nothing unCanadian about wanting stricter immigration policy. If jobs are hard to find why bring in more people? It's not racist at all unlike what the site's trying to tell everybody.

[kommisar]

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wow what a ****ed up election. ignatieff lost in his own riding, green party gets its first ever seat in parliament, ndp gets the most seats they've ever had in canadian history and becomes official opposition, wow.


disgusted at conservative majority. let's see how long it takes for another election hehu

[Zageron]

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wow what a ****ed up election. ignatieff lost in his own riding, green party gets its first ever seat in parliament, ndp gets the most seats they've ever had in canadian history and becomes official opposition, wow.


disgusted at conservative majority. let's see how long it takes for another election hehu

I'm dreaming for a 'Great-Conservative-****up'.

What I would do to see the Canadian people kick Harper out of his seat.

[smartdude1212]

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I'm part of the giant orange wave, and obviously disgusted with a Conservative majority, but let's think of the positives:

In 5 years, when the Conservatives leave behind remnants of Canada, the survivors will realize that he actually ****ed up and they won't choose him again! (hopefully)

In 5 years, when staunch elderly Conservative supporters have died off due to plague or virulent strains of something hazardous, the new, more free-thinking generation will (hopefully) elect the proper party [seriously, I'd be hard pressed to find a handful of people my age who currently support Harper's fascist regime].

Or we could just storm Ottawa and kill the mother****er. My torch is ready.

[Patricoo]

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Woh wait hold on, hold on. Someone explain this to an American. You guys called an election from a no-confidence of the majority party due cuz why? Them not being open enough and corruption, right? Then... in the end... the supposed corrupt party actually GAINS seats. WTF Canada. Ball, dropped.

Parliamentary systems are weird.

[kommisar]

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Blame it on the older generation being very gullible and western Canada in general.

People who were all like "Screw Ignatieff he's American!!" obviously haven't looked into it enough and don't know that he was one of the most qualified politicians running. He's Canadian get over it. Starting to sound like fucen Obama birthers like come on. A shame he didn't win his seat though...

Orange wave ftw. Glad to see the NDP finally getting some influence on parliament.


What's upsetting me the most as a francophone is that Harper doesn't give two shits about Québec or Atlantic Canada and doesn't support bilingual laws. Now that he has a majority, I'm afraid that my rights as a French-Canadian are being challenged. Since he's not choosing to raise taxes to help our economic situation, he's forced to cut spending, potentially on the health sector which directly affects my salary =/

[ddr_f4n]

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I'm part of the giant orange wave, and obviously disgusted with a Conservative majority, but let's think of the positives:

In 5 years, when the Conservatives leave behind remnants of Canada, the survivors will realize that he actually ****ed up and they won't choose him again! (hopefully)

In 5 years, when staunch elderly Conservative supporters have died off due to plague or virulent strains of something hazardous, the new, more free-thinking generation will (hopefully) elect the proper party [seriously, I'd be hard pressed to find a handful of people my age who currently support Harper's fascist regime].

Or we could just storm Ottawa and kill the mother****er. My torch is ready.

Except y'know, the majority of Conservatives are either rich old giant business people or Super Christian/religious sects, both stubborn as hell and won't change.

The bigger problem is how many moved from Libs to Cons instead of NDP =/. The voting system sucks ass. We need it to be more like Peru. Do a first voting system, if a party doesn't get more then 50% votes, then it'll be a re-election between the top two parties. And NDP was the only one willing to change the voting system entirely. Cons wanted to get rid of the other parties completely by bankrupting them, and the shit like that.

I think America sounds like a nice place to live in now.

[Patricoo]

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Orange wave ftw. Glad to see the NDP finally getting some influence on parliament.

What's upsetting me the most as a francophone is that Harper doesn't give two shits about Québec or Atlantic Canada and doesn't support bilingual laws. Now that he has a majority, I'm afraid that my rights as a French-Canadian are being challenged. Since he's not choosing to raise taxes to help our economic situation, he's forced to cut spending, potentially on the health sector which directly affects my salary =/

Yikes. Yea from what I see of the BQ going completely away that the French-Canadian is now likely to be an NDP person. Does he not support the spread bilingual laws or that he wants the removal of existing ones?

The bigger problem is how many moved from Libs to Cons instead of NDP =/. The voting system sucks ass. We need it to be more like Peru. Do a first voting system, if a party doesn't get more then 50% votes, then it'll be a re-election between the top two parties. And NDP was the only one willing to change the voting system entirely. Cons wanted to get rid of the other parties completely by bankrupting them, and the shit like that.

I think America sounds like a nice place to live in now.

Bwuahh... I think the French system might be a better system of comparison then the Peruvian one. :P

[Reach]

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In 5 years, when the Conservatives leave behind remnants of Canada, the survivors will realize that he actually ****ed up and they won't choose him again! (hopefully)

Alberta isn't going to budge by next election, and Saskatchewan won't likely either. Nor will New Brunswick, most likely.

Of course, there are a lot of seats in Ontario/Manitoba/BC that can get switched. Hopefully that can turn the tide of the battle, especially when Canadians continue to become less and less satisfied with conservatives.


Either way, the NDP has mostly been leeching its spots from Liberals, and the Bloc, and has largely not touched conservative ridings. This happened rather recently; about a month or two ago the Liberals were still dominating the NDP. I don't know why the sudden switch, personally.

Either way, if Harper is the one that needs to go, people are going to have to do more than just jump on the NDP bandwagon, because if it's at the expense of the Liberal party, Harper will win again anyway.

D:

It is, however, nice to see the Bloc fall. It's about time.

I highly favor the liberals, given they have always given more funding to education, and to science research, which is something that is important to me, and everyone, IMO. They also have good green incentives in their platform, something critically missing in Canada right now.

There isn't a lot that appeals to me from the NDP, though I would take them over the conservatives, personally, since the conservative platform is almost entirely useless IMO other than the fact that it's appealing at first sight to see 'WOW, even lower taxes! Herp!'

I mean, it's nice that Layton wants to hire more doctors and nurses, but I would be interested in more details on how he plans to do this. New seats at most medical facilities in Canada are ridiculously expensive and if anything the trend has been to sell these seats to foreign countries in the past years for $...! I don't like this solution at ALL D:

[Mans0n]

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How are you people just now realizing canada sucks?

[kommisar]

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manson you have no friends


Layton's ideas were ver expensive, but I'm guessing his approach is a spend and stimulate strategy which can mess things up even worse if done prematurely.

Harper's strategy isn't really helping anyone in the middle class. Lowering taxes isn't helping that the cost of living is stupidly high and that people still won't be able to spend that extra imaginary money on shit they can't afford.

What I don't understand is that Harper got chased out of his own office, then wins a majority? I thought people were already pissed at his awful performance.