Take the Canadian Election Quiz & Vote Vicariously

[nurseboy269]

It says I am closest to the Liberal party and furthest from the NDP (whomever they are)......and I guess it is a Canadian thing, but what am I riding? (And not a Mountie either..lol)

 

[Kulindahr]

LOL

I updated Adobe Flash.

I rebooted.

Ten minutes ago I tried for the quiz again. It still says "loading".

 

[silosybin]

i got pretty much right in between NDP and Liberal, about what i was expecting

 

[Keelandson]

It says I am closest to the Liberal party and furthest from the NDP (whomever they are)......and I guess it is a Canadian thing, but what am I riding? (And not a Mountie either..lol)

Wikipedia on the NDP (New Democratic Party)

The NDP evolved from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) which grew from populist, agrarian and democratic socialist roots into a modern social-democratic party. While the party is secular and pluralistic, it has a longstanding relationship with the Christian left and the Social Gospel movement, particularly the United Church of Canada. However, the federal party has broadened to include concerns of the New Left, and advocates issues such as gay rights, international peace, and environmental stewardship.

It hasn't been new since 1961, when it changed its name from CCF. And, of course, there hasn't been a left-wing Christian since 4 B.C.

Wikipedia on riding:

The word riding is descended from late Old English *þriðing or *þriding (recorded only in Latin contexts or forms, e.g., trehing, treding, trithing, with Latin initial t here representing the Old English letter thorn). It came into Old English as a loanword from Old Norse þriðjungr, meaning a third part (especially of a county), cf. farthing. The modern form riding was the result of initial th being absorbed in the final th or t of the words north, south, east and west, by which it was normally preceded.[2][3]

A common misconception holds that the term arose from some association between the size of the district and the distance that can be covered on horseback in a certain amount of time.

 

[Centexfarmer]

This Texas Boy last visited (and loves btw) New Brunswick!

So I told the Survey that I'm from New Brunswick. Saint John to be exact, and I said that my postal code is E5G.

I answered the questions based upon how I felt about certain issues, answered "I don't know" to everything else, and I guess the next time that I visit New Brunswick I should be wearing this button:

But most of my Canadian friends tell me that they'll be voting for "the evil that they know."

Whatever that is.

I find Canadian politics fascinating.

 

[rotary]

Not much of a surprise.

 

[bankside]

And I'm surprised at the amount of people I know landing Liberal. A vast chunk, anyway.

The liberal party has always had room for a lot of people because it spans the middle. Compare with the States, which splits evenly in two, thus sadly also splitting their reasonable pragmatic centrists in two.

If Americans wanted to duplicate the Liberal party, they'd take the reasonable two-thirds of Democrats and the reasonable one-third of Republicans and fuse them into one solid party in the centre.

This would leave a left-wing fringe, called "the NDP," that at its best would act as the national conscience for social justice, and at its worst would wallow in old marxist clichés, notions of class warfare, populist over-spending, and anti-free market knee-jerk rhetoric. But that's okay because they'll never get into power!

And on the other side, you'd have the remaining one-half of the Republicans, who at one time tried to reach closer to the centre themselves and called themselves "Progressive Conservatives" but who after a decade of in-fighting with our own Teabag movement called the Reform Party, are now happy to settle for a smaller party called only "the Conservatives" with no more notion of progress.

Reflexively pro-corporate, reflexively neo-liberal, reflexively pro-Bush, reflexively paranoid about crime, reflexively wary of minorities or diversity, reflexively willing to impose morality and Jesus, reflexively anti-government, reflexively anti-culture, anti-academic, and anti-"elite," any of their sensible concerns about balanced budgets or efficient government are almost always overwhelmed by their uncontrolled, unthinking reflexes. Fortunately we've kept them out of absolute power through the strength of the other parties combined, though it is close.

And then we have the great Liberal middle. It is clear that this is where the vast majority of the political aspirations of Canadians take root. However the Liberal party, as the party of the centre, is vulnerable to drifting, waffling and muddling because it has no extreme slogans of left or right to anchor it.

"Balanced sensible affordable taxation for all" doesn't exactly have the same ring to it as "Stop the government from stealing my money" or "Steal from the rich who have exploited the poor." It's a party that when in power, knows what to do to give Canadians the government they want. But it's clumsy at getting there. It's centrist and kind of easy-going, so it can lack the discipline of the fanatics on either side. And it is truly ready to adapt, to hear things out, and to find the best answer instead of sticking slavishly to some ideological script. Too often, that makes it look wishy-washy. But it is that great sensible wishy-washy, careful, pragmatic party which has made all the difference to Canada, and we need them back.

It says I am closest to the Liberal party and furthest from the NDP (whomever they are)......and I guess it is a Canadian thing, but what am I riding? (And not a Mountie either..lol)

A riding is the same thing as a constituency, same thing as an "electoral district."

LOL

I updated Adobe Flash.

I rebooted.

Ten minutes ago I tried for the quiz again. It still says "loading".

Good grief.

This Texas Boy last visited (and loves btw) New Brunswick!

So I told the Survey that I'm from New Brunswick. Saint John to be exact, and I said that my postal code is E5G.

I answered the questions based upon how I felt about certain issues, answered "I don't know" to everything else, and I guess the next time that I visit New Brunswick I should be wearing this button:

But most of my Canadian friends tell me that they'll be voting for "the evil that they know."

Whatever that is.

I find Canadian politics fascinating.

The evil they know perhaps means Harper the Conservative. And that would be tragic.

 

[Kulindahr]

Do I give up?

No matter what I do, all I see is the same page.

Does the quiz pop up? Maybe some other setting is blocking it.

 

[Keelandson]

Do I give up?

No matter what I do, all I see is the same page.

Does the quiz pop up? Maybe some other setting is blocking it.

Have you dumped the page cache? The machine might be using the one without cookies and/or Flash turned on.

Mind you, like Sgt. Schultz, I know nothing of Windows.

 

[Kulindahr]

I had to accept third-party cookies and allow pop-ups, to get it to work.

Apparently I'm closest to the Liberal party and farthest from the Conservative.

 

[Keelandson]

Apparently I'm closest to the Liberal party and farthest from the Conservative.

Was it all worth it? For some reason I think not. lol

 

[Kulindahr]

Was it all worth it? For some reason I think not. lol

I learned some things about how web sites don't tell you what's needed to communicate with them. And I learned that it isn't just commercial sites that want to dump third-party cookies on you.

 

[Keelandson]

^^^ That's why I run Firefox with a ton of privacy extensions, including one called Beef Taco that plants its own list of opt-out cookies every time the thing starts, and a screen-level cookie control using the extension Prefbar.

 

[landers]

The compass says I'm most compatible with the Liberals, which is no surprise since I'm also a member.

 

[Kulindahr]

^^^ That's why I run Firefox with a ton of privacy extensions, including one called Beef Taco that plants its own list of opt-out cookies every time the thing starts, and a screen-level cookie control using the extension Prefbar.

I run Beef Taco. I still end up with piles of crap in my cookie file any time "Accept third party cookies" is checked.