Politicause
by Chris on Dec.08, 2005, under Events, General Thoughts, Internet, Media and Rants
I want to second Char’s mention of the Green Party of Canada’s petition to be included in national debates. Political discourse in this country needs to include all of the parties that are in the running, even if they are just nascent entities on the political stage.
How are voters supposed to make informed choices, if all of the reasonable alternatives — plus the NDP — aren’t allowed to present their platforms?
The Green Party is the first party I’ve seen that has ever given me reason to re-examine my fairly hard-line conservative bent. They’re basically the other side of the coin, for me; where the Conservative party satisfies my sense of fiscal and civil responsibility, the Green Party emphasizes a fair number of intellectual property and personal freedom policies that I support, as well. It makes it a hard choice, and even more so because I live in one of the two ridings in Alberta that elects a Liberal, which brings my own personal distaste for strategic voting to the fore.
Let’s just say I’m not 100% certain to vote Conservative this time around.
December 8th, 2005 on 9:27 am
Strategic voting really bugs me. People complain about the two party-like system in the states, and then insist that you should just do the same up here, Just This Once. RRggh.
Anyhow. I signed that petition, too. We’ll see if it goes anywhere.
December 8th, 2005 on 12:53 pm
Do you know Bill Given? Probably not, because you went to St. Joe’s, but he’s about two years younger than me and he’s currently on town council. He is running as an independent in this riding and I suspect he’s going to get a lot of votes. He’s very well known in the community, from being on town council and because he’s a salesman at Hi-Tech (although that could work against him, since they are into price gouging). PLUS, the conservative candidate is all of 24. I’m going to be spitting mad if people vote for him simply because he’s Conservative. BAH. Make ‘em all independent, I say!
December 8th, 2005 on 1:14 pm
thanks, sweetie.