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I went to vote in my riding, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada was running in our riding, and so rather then vote for the NDP, I cast my vote for the Workers of the World!
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Blayne do you actually know any of the men/women running on that ticket? There is a world of difference between Eugene Debs and Josef Stalin, Zhou En Lai and Mao Ze Dong.
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Nope, I just say marxiste-lineniste partie du canada and I was like "BAM" wrote an X faster then you could say X.
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quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: Nope, I just say marxiste-lineniste partie du canada and I was like "BAM" wrote an X faster then you could say X.
I don't want to be too critical Blayne, as it's probably wasted effort, but how is that different from my next door neighbor who most likely just checked his X on the straight Republican ticket box without actually thinking too hard about who all those people are?
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The two candidates from the Marxist-Leninist Party are staring at the rolls in disbelief. "Someone voted for us! Someone other than us! Surely, Comrade, this will be the year of our triumph!"
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Theoretically, they also get something like $1.5 courtesy of your vote to pay for their campaigning finances.
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13 votes now!
Conservatives have 145 projected seats, Liberals 75, NDP 35 Bloc 40 independents 1 or 2. Essentially I think Conversatives will get a majority government unless its only majority if they have more then all other parties put together.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: The two candidates from the Marxist-Leninist Party are staring at the rolls in disbelief. "Someone voted for us! Someone other than us! Surely, Comrade, this will be the year of our triumph!"
This made me laugh out loud. I've actually known people who voted ML before. But only because there wasn't a Communist Party candidate in the riding.
Personally I'm content with the results. I see precious little different between Tory and Grit these days, and I dislike Stephane Dion more than I dislike Stephen Harper. It's a minority government, so they have to cooperate some.
That said, I voted Green.
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Personally, I think that the result was the best result that could be hoped for in a terribly imperfect world. Financially, the Conservatives have been mixed, some good (the tax free savings account, pension income splitting, cracking down on income trusts) and some bad (raising income tax to cut sales tax, a bajillion special targeted tax breaks). Socially, they've done a decent job of reining in their own worse impulses. They squished their own MPs anti-abortion bill in Parliament and muzzled the worse of their anti-immigrant sentiment.
That said, I'm happy that they did not get a majority. I dread what they would do to please their backbenchers without the threat of a non-confidence vote to keep them in line.
The tragedy of the campaign IMHO is that the idea of a carbon tax has effectively been discredited in Canada for at least the near future. In the environmental sense, I think the idea is a good one. But the implementation of the idea was a hard sell to the Conservative demographic and the obnoxiously large tax credits to rural, northern, and low income populations made it a hard sell to the middle class.
The good thing is that Stephanie Dion will probably replaced, hopefully with a leader more in the tradition of Chretien or Martin.
(Personally, I voted liberal with an eye toward a conservative minority. Both my work/school riding and my home riding were incredibly close and the former actually swung back and forth at least four times during the night)
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