This current Canadian election is a complete bore. Nobody is really campaigning seriously. It looks like that dopey egghead from Harvard is going to blow it.

I was just watching a clip from a Norm MacDonald interview on the Tom Green show on YouTube and it made me want to start a thread on the election. I wan't going to bother until Norm got me going.

Anyway, I hadn't intended to do threads about the Canadian election, because the Canadian election is a complete and total irrelevancy to everyone but a few lobbyists, pals of pals and construction contractors.

However since Norm was asked a question by a Hunter S. Thompson impersonator who called into the Tom Green Show and wanted to know about Lady Gaga's cock (I didn't realize she raised poultry), I decided to do a thread telling people why they should not vote for Michael Ignatieff, or that jackass, Jack Layton.

You should not vote for Michael Ignatieff or Jack Layton in this election because despite the fact that Prime Minister Peter Harper's government spent 1.1 BILLION dollars for security at the G8/G20 conference last summer, an amount roughly 100 times more than such services really cost, neither Ignatieff nor Layton has called for a criminal investigation into the way contracts were assessed and awarded at that time.

I'm not even going to throw in the legal and police conduct issues that arose out of that summer in TO, and neither is anyone else, apparently.

The reason that Layton and Ignatieff are not going after Paul Harper for corruption in awarding contracts related to the G8/G20 is that if they are ever elected to office in this country, they intend to award contracts in precisely the same crooked, dishonest and thieving way that Pierre Harper does.

That's how politics works in Canada and that's why you shouldn't vote for Ignatieff, Layton or Harkins.

I think the Pierre / Paul play on words was in reference to Pierre Trudeau and Paul Martin.

But the OP is right, there is no one worth voting for. So I will vote, but I intend to spoil it to send a message that no one on the ballot is good enough for me.

I want election reform where I can vote on the issues, not for a party. I want to know HOW the issues are to be dealt with not the generalization that seems to be going on. This is why they can lie and get away with it. They don't actually promise anything specific.

that's funny how you bring the USA into this.

can you poor bastersd do a write in vote?

write in for ron paul!

Originally posted by fooks
rattle some cages, but don't vote?

that is a sweet deal for the population to be able to vote.

we just need better choices. all of us.

You are correct of course, but this is Canada (not Sparta), the nicy nicest of all the nicey, nice places on earth and simply even thinking of doing something like not voting is . . . . gasp, gasp, my heart is beating (not at an elevated rate, mind you . . . simply beating) . . . gasp, not nice.

I'm definitely voting...

If people are tired of the same politics then the least they can do is to vote for something different. Even if it doesn't represent 100% of their interests and values, it's at least somewhat closer. No one representative will ever have the exact value system as any 'true' individual.

At least we have choice, A lot more choice than in the US.

Originally posted by Cocasinpry
I'm definitely voting...

If people are tired of the same politics then the least they can do is to vote for something different. Even if it doesn't represent 100% of their interests and values, it's at least somewhat closer. No one representative will ever have the exact value system as any 'true' individual.

At least we have choice, A lot more choice than in the US.

I really don't think so. I wish I could say different, but I think that more and more we are becoming a mini-me to the United States. Harper is our "republican" yes man and Ignatieff will be our Canadian "Obama-style" yes man.

We are going down the drain with the Americans. We are handcuffed to them, like it or lump it. When the going gets tough, as it may, eventually, you will see American armor rolling into Canada. I don't doubt it for a minute. It is the elephant in the room of US/Canadian relations, the retarded relative that no one ever mentions.

That's the price of living next door to a psychopath.

Don Cherry for Prime Minister !!!

You kids out there,,,, keep yer sticks on da hice, eh.

Far as I know we are slated for assimilation into the collective NAU
the paper work has been signed by the corporate types...
look for a bilderberger harper government "majority"...

anesthetic

nighty night Canada

I will vote for Harper for the simple fact CANADA IS LEADING THE WORLD ECONOMICALLY. I don't want another election in 6 months and we're doing too good now to administer a shuffle in the House.

I'm voting for any oddball party i see on the ballot.

Here's hoping to the success of the Marijuana Party!

Originally posted by CanadianDream420
I will vote for Harper for the simple fact CANADA IS LEADING THE WORLD ECONOMICALLY. I don't want another election in 6 months and we're doing too good now to administer a shuffle in the House.

You make a very good point and it is not lost on me. I do respect Harper and Flaherty and Paul Martin on that score. People can laugh about the "stewards" of the economy and how they are not really responsible for anything, but all one has to do is look south of the border where right wing ideologues put a simpleton into the White House and proceeded to deregulate the entire financial services industry.

The resulting sub-prime mortgage chaos was like the scene in Catch 22 where the financial black market genius bought up all the surplus US military cotton swabs, had them dipped in chocolate and started selling them as food.

Down in the States, I have reason to believe that Canadian leaders are regarded somewhat dismissively as mere "managers" as opposed to their own homegrown brilliant, visionary, delusional, world shaking psychopaths.

I'll take a "manager" any day. Despite my jibes, I do like the way that Harper refuses to sing arias for the press.

But . . . every Canadian should be reading Stevie Cameron's On the Take and demanding that something be done about the looting of the treasury by cronies of the party in power. So far nobody has taken that bull by the horns.

I never vote. i am 42 years old and nothing ever changed, be it liberal, or any one else for that matter.
For me to vote would be wrong because i don't know any thing about politics. How could i juge...

Second: i do not participate in organised crime.
It is a crime just to want me.. to vote.

I'll vote for whoever will legalize marijuana. Other than that every party is the same crap.

Or for anyone that wants B.C. And Alberta to separate.

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