Canadian Election 2015 - test which party supports your views.

[bankside]

Well, we are off to the races. Any thoughts on the first debate?

Also, take the test to see which party is closest to your own views - gives a good overview of the issues too:
http://canada.isidewith.com






FYI, I'm Liberal, followed distantly by ND.

 

[Kulindahr]

Benvolio won't think this is possible, but I scored with Liberal at the top and Communist at the bottom.... he says they're the same thing!

Interestingly, if you throw out communist the point spread between my highest and lowest is just 30%. I guess in Canada I could fit anywhere... except Communist.

 

[evanrick]

 

[mightbe]

I don't see how I got 69% Communist. They're obviously not very communist and on each question that I agreed I chose a more limited response except on infrastructure-related questions.

Bloc Québoécois was the REAL surprise. I guess they're just generally liberal? Because I distinctly answered a big fat "No" on should Québec leave Canada..

 

[AgisMole]

butt... butt... butt...

these ones are worse than Pontius Pilatus

Don't nuke my few Canadian friends j/k

 

[rareboy]

For me it would be Liberal.

 

[bankside]

Benvolio won't think this is possible, but I scored with Liberal at the top and Communist at the bottom.... he says they're the same thing!

Interestingly, if you throw out communist the point spread between my highest and lowest is just 30%. I guess in Canada I could fit anywhere... except Communist.

Canada has never quite collapsed into a yes-or-no, black-or-white, capitalist-or-communist, 2-party, binary farce. (Not yet at least, though the Prime Minister is trying mightily).

That means our voters are used to changing their vote, they are used to making parties compete to earn their vote, and the parties have to do more than pleasure their hardcore base. And that is probably what you are seeing in that point spread: a number of parties forced into taking, debatable, but more or less acceptable positions.


If you want to get into it, the debate is here:
http://www.macleans.ca/national-leaders-debate/

 

[bankside]

Another reason I am so eager to see this Reform Party clown kicked out after 10 pointless years:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-zero-for-terrorist-activity/article25897926/

The Conservative government has already made it a crime to leave Canada with the aim of taking part in terrorist activities. This new measure would go further, criminalizing the act of travel to specific countries.

“There is absolutely no right in this country to travel to an area under the governance of terrorists. That is not a human right,” he told supporters on Sunday morning.

Canadians have freedom of movement. I'll be damned if I'm going to live like an East German, only allowed to get my exit visa if I have been of use to the right government officials.

 

[thewiz]

Canada has never quite collapsed into a yes-or-no, black-or-white, capitalist-or-communist, 2-party, binary farce. (Not yet at least, though the Prime Minister is trying mightily).

That means our voters are used to changing their vote, they are used to making parties compete to earn their vote, and the parties have to do more than pleasure their hardcore base. And that is probably what you are seeing in that point spread: a number of parties forced into taking, debatable, but more or less acceptable positions.


If you want to get into it, the debate is here:
http://www.macleans.ca/national-leaders-debate/

So Benvolio would never fit in Canada? It has to be one party, one platform, one belief and all others are wrong.

I was not surprised to find I am 93% liberal, 89% new Democrat, 83% Green but a little surprised I was 77% Communist! lol!

 

[gsdx]

Justin loves me (91%). Harper? Not so much (5%). That's okay. I don't like Harper much, either.

I'm getting rather ticked off at the Conservatives constantly using Justin's quote to attack him, "...the budget will balance itself." Yes, he said that, but that's only the tail end of the quote which the Conservatives never reveal:

“Would it worry you to go into deficit in this current climate to, as you say, put more people to work?” Van Dusen asked.

“The commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget will balance itself,” the Liberal leader responded.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/21/federal-budget-2015-joe-oliver-justin-trudeau_n_7108524.html

Oh, and they talk about Justin's hair a lot, too.

 

[peeonme]

85% Liberal, 71%N.D. I got 69 on Communist, but hell it's still 69!

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I got 92% Liberal, 92% Green, 89% NDP.

I only got 79% Communist annoyingly, but the areas we 'differed in' were ones where the site could not decide on the Communist position.

I am very proud of my 3% conservative!

 

[TX-Beau]

 

[AgisMole]

oh jesus murphy! it's a nest of vi... ahem communists...

 

[rareboy]

So Actually

89% Liberal
89% New Democrat
84% Green
82% Communist
10% Conservative

 

[opinterph]

[LFLOAT]← [/LFLOAT]

89% Liberal, 78% New Democrat, 71% Green

 

[bankside]

Fun times: the Prime Minister's own ex-lawyer has just testified he thought the Prime Minister knew about a senate expense scandal cover up.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...new-about-wrights-duffy-deal/article26047607/

So far we've learnt

• Senator appointed for Prince Edward Island when he probably didn't even qualify due to not living there.
• Senator claims a bunch of travel and living expenses for the place he doesn't actually live in, which were actually for personal or party business.
• Senator gets caught, but refuses to admit wrongdoing just causing the vultures to circle and embarrass the PM.
• Party promises to pay him off if he will just shut up and give the money back, but then they think twice given the amount.
• Prime Minister's ex-chief of staff personally pays off the senator to refund the money and meddles with the audit supposed to clean up the mess, but says he did nothing wrong and it was all a big misunderstanding, and covering these things up is all perfectly normal and above board, and despite all that that the prime minister knew nothing.
• Prime Minister's replacement chief of staff shown to be aware of the situation, thus showing the PM lied about who knew what in the months after it was leaked.
• Prime Minister's ex-lawyer now testifying that he had every indication everyone knew all the way to the top.

$90 thousand in corrupt senatorial expense claims. And an asshat prime minister promising greater accountability and transparency than anyone in opposition.

 

[SaskGuy]

Liberal: 87%
NDP: 84%
Green: 82%
Communist: 69%
Conservative: 59%

Wow, mixed bag!

 

[bankside]

Just over a month to go before the election, and the three major parties are still locked neck-and-neck.

Here's what the electoral map would likely look like if the election were today.
http://stephenmcmurtry.org/election_map



Details here:
http://www.threehundredeight.com

 

[hotatlboi]

Fun times: the Prime Minister's own ex-lawyer has just testified he thought the Prime Minister knew about a senate expense scandal cover up.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...new-about-wrights-duffy-deal/article26047607/

So far we've learnt

• Senator appointed for Prince Edward Island when he probably didn't even qualify due to not living there.
• Senator claims a bunch of travel and living expenses for the place he doesn't actually live in, which were actually for personal or party business.
• Senator gets caught, but refuses to admit wrongdoing just causing the vultures to circle and embarrass the PM.
• Party promises to pay him off if he will just shut up and give the money back, but then they think twice given the amount.
• Prime Minister's ex-chief of staff personally pays off the senator to refund the money and meddles with the audit supposed to clean up the mess, but says he did nothing wrong and it was all a big misunderstanding, and covering these things up is all perfectly normal and above board, and despite all that that the prime minister knew nothing.
• Prime Minister's replacement chief of staff shown to be aware of the situation, thus showing the PM lied about who knew what in the months after it was leaked.
• Prime Minister's ex-lawyer now testifying that he had every indication everyone knew all the way to the top.

$90 thousand in corrupt senatorial expense claims. And an asshat prime minister promising greater accountability and transparency than anyone in opposition.

Harper has been PM for wayyy to long. Not really surprising stuff like this is coming out. After a certain point in time power usually corrupts, and even in democracies the leaders start to behave more like autocrats.