Let's go to the polls!

[sabotabby]

The CBC is frantically posting a ton of polls that no one cares about or reads (okay, this one is admittedly funny, but you don't need to waste your time by participating. I'll be doing my own fair and balanced poll right here!

Have at it!

[Poll #623010]

Comments

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

OMG, I call for a new poll. This one has too many choices.

[sabotabby]

Pfft. That's what you get for not living under a two-party system.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Dude, give us credit for our two party system, which is a direct result of declaring our independence from Britain about one million years before Canada.

[sabotabby]

We have better tea as a result of our tardiness.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Well, on the other hand, America has given the world the choice to drink iced tea made from the melted ice of the polar caps. Mmmmm...environmentalicious.

[sabotabby]

Yeah, but Canada's going to start offering clubbed-baby-seal hamburgers.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah? America gives the wretched refuse of your teeming shore the freedom to be deported nicely or kicked on the can until it hits the fan.

Now kids...

[morgoid.livejournal.com]

Can't our countries work together to persecute our immigrants? Look at the sucess of the Maher Arar case!

Re: Now kids...

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, US and Canada are always trying to top each other on that score. I can't imagine why one of them would want the other to look like it's winning the fight against "illegal" immigrants. There is a blood rivalry between them--a duel to death, if you will, a race towards that fabled land called "zero population growth," which, like Gatsby's dream, keeps eluding them, boats against the current, and so on....

Re: Now kids...

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

A race against the race!!

[agent-moody.livejournal.com]

Canada's own sealburgers, tenderised to perfection!

[frippy.livejournal.com]

But we don't have to have that ugly-ass queen lizardbreath on our moneys and highways and washroom signs...

[sabotabby]

Yes, but we can sing all the "sod off, you inbred tyrant" type punk anthems from the UK and really mean it.

[frippy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those colonial American anthems like "Fuck King George the Third with a Hardened Biscuit*" don't have the same punch 230 years later.

*An act later renamed "Yankee Doodle"

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE CRACKING ME UP, YOU FIENDISH HARPY!!!

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

OMG, queen lizardbreath!!!!!!

LMAO

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

initially we had many more parties

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

You forgot a question:

Will the next PM last longer than John Turner did?

[sabotabby]

I'm trying to remember whether Turner lasted longer than Campbell. But whatever -- we're going to get a minority government, which means elections every year and a half. Go Canada.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I think John Turner lasted a month. He was in and out so fast it made people's eyes hurt.

Edit: Ok, I'm type impared today

[sabotabby]

Two-and-a-bit, as opposed to Campbell's four-and-a-bit. Although at least he got elected in the first place.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't last as long as Mackenzie King.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Wait: They once made Spuds prime minister?

Fine icon, by the way.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I don't know the various subtlties of Canadian politics, so I will just go on record as saying that sabotabby should be Prime Minister!

I don't suppose you can give a Yank a high paying Canadian government job, could you? :D

[sabotabby]

Hell, if I'm going to forget my issues with reformist politics, I promise to be the most corrupt PM this country has ever seen! (That's a lot to live up to, but I think I'm up for the challenge.) So, I accept, and yes!

[medie]

Sure! We'll make you Yank in charge of hanging up on George. Feel free to hurl insults and obscenities before doing so of course. We give grand pay raises for that one :-p

[threeliesforone.livejournal.com]

it's probably really bad that not only am i going to vote NDP despite being opposed to electoral politics, i also agreed to put up an NDP sign in our kitchen window. i live in the riding peter kent is running in, though, so i maintain that i'm allowed. or something.

[sabotabby]

Ditto, Olivia Chow and the fact that there's no window in my kitchen (but one in the door if the For Rent sign goes away).

[frippy.livejournal.com]

I say opt for total anarchy, become a vast land of interconnected but unique and independent communities, and make conservative American commentators' heads explode.

Unrealistic? Oh come on! Alberta knows, deep down, it wants to be as free as Quebec does.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but OMG the organizational headaches that interconnectedness would bring! If Canadians opted for total anarchy, within two weeks we'd have established joint sub-sub-subcommittees on everything! I mean everything: transit, upkeep of the QEW, importation of apples to Ontario and maple syrup to B.C.

And Alberta only wants to be free so that it can not associate with anything French.

Seriously? The notion of a sovereign Alberta makes me very scared.

[morgoid.livejournal.com]

I've told people that if Alberta ever gets it's all independent, I'm staging a mass exodus to BC, starting at the Legislature grounds.

I'll even get my friend Diego to dress up as Moses I'm so hardcore!

...sigh...

I work for the prov. government right now... and I think I'm losing my will to live.

[sabotabby]

If Alberta gets independent, I'll join the Canadian army and invade on the pretext of human rights.

Er...well, no. But I'd help people emigrate. Damn, what a scary thought. President Ralph Klein...

[medie]

If Alberta ever gets independant we'll all fall over laughing watching Ralph Klein flop around helplessly like a Stephen Harper trying not to screw up. It'll be a gas right up until Kutcher pops out and tells Ralphie he's been punked.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Simple, appoint a Royal Commission to look into the matter of Anarchy. They'll report back in a decade or so.

[sabotabby]

Hahaha.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

I vote for Rush.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Do you usually vote for Rush?

[morgoid.livejournal.com]

Who DOESN'T vote for Rush?

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Ummmm....

[sabotabby]

[insert obligatory anti-Objectivist snark here]

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

As always, I stand for the building of a revolutionary party of the working class. Since that's not going to happen between now and mid-January, the question arises of whether to employ a critical support tactic on another party. The only ones for which that can even be considered, on the grounds of working-class political independence, are the NDP and the CPC-ML. In the latter case, it's just farcical, pointless. In the former case, I would need to know a lot more about the current political situation in Canada. What are the strike rates? Does the NDP have any provincial governments right now? What are they claiming their attitude to another Liberal minority government would be? And so forth.

[sabotabby]

Oh, stop bringing serious discussion to the table. ;)

The NDP are in power in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and tend to have strong showings in B.C. and sometimes in Ontario (although not at the moment).

What are the strike rates?

Strikes in NDP-governed provinces as opposed to otherwise?

What are they claiming their attitude to another Liberal minority government would be?

I don't think they've said yet. I gather it'd be pretty much the same, though.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

The current NDP leader has done more than any previous leader to put distance between his party and the labour movement.

However that can be linked to the new electoral finance law, which prevents unions and corporations alike from making large contributions to political parties. (Although even there, it's a bit skewed towards business, but I think the unions are glad to have this financial obligation lifted from their bottom-line...)

As for minority governments, I think the NDP would work with any party that would agree to key platform planks, like protecting healthcare. It would be really hard for them to ally with the Conservatives, but should it be a rainbow coalition (Bloc/NDP/Cons), they could find some common grounds, for example:
- electoral reform
- decentralization of the government (although the NDP is rather opposed to this, but it can be tweaked)
- euh, I'll have to think more about this

An NDP/Liberal coalition is a lot more likely, except that it is very probable that the NDP would have more seats and thus more clout in such a coalition.

[medie]

Alas I am stuck voting for the current incompetent morons as opposed to the terrifying, rightwing cardboard morons with the pretty second in command or the endearingly inept but very earnest morons with the "oh please, oh please vote for us we're not pitiful" leader.

Yeah, the current bunch're getting up there and can't really get it going anymore, the little blue pills've failed, and they make funny noises but...hey, when they finally do bump off, we'll inherit a fortune and shack up with the hot young thang next door. Err...*looks over* or, y'know, maybe the polar ice caps'll melt and we all die horrible deaths.

Sounds good to me.

[sabotabby]

I'm not entirely sure what you just said, but it amused me nonetheless.

If all else fails, I will move to Québec, learn French, and become a separatist.