Stephen Harper vs Stephane Dion, Ultra mega political showdown! (Canada Fed Election)

[project dragon]

Looks like a Conservative minority government.

Liberals will probably be voting for a new leader.


Also, Elizabeth May lost her riding. : ( Kind of hard to sway a conservative riding alllllll the way to the other side though, but she didn't do too bad.

[Cops]

The next federal election will take place in a year or two, the leader of the Liberal party and the Conservative party will change.

This huge political shit show will result in a Liberal minority, this just gets worse and worse.

[Troll King]

CBC says the Conservatives look like they're on the way to remaining in power but the final distribution of seats has yet to be determined whether it will be a minority.

[Cops]

I voted Bonnie Crombie (Liberal) for Mississauga Streetsville. The Conservatives would like to get their hands on some of Mississaugas ridings, I'd say they'd have better luck getting Mississauga South then they do Mississauga Streetsville.

I hope this is nothing more than a dramatic lose for the conservatives

[Adman]

i voted NDP for the DP...

but someone told me it didn't stand for double penetration...

[Capital Knockers]

Frick, I wanted to vote Green, but all I see all over my riding are infinite blue signs. I can't have the conservatives win this riding, so I had to choose the incumbent Liberal...

Well, if you're voting against them, that only makes me more confident in my choice.

[Epinephrine]

Frick, I wanted to vote Green, but all I see all over my riding are infinite blue signs. I can't have the conservatives win this riding, so I had to choose the incumbent Liberal...

[Capital Knockers]

I think I'm going to vote Liberal. I wanted to go with either NDP or Green to boost their voice, but I honestly think the Liberal dude in my riding is the best qualified to do the job. Plus my neighboor down the street who ran for the green party last election is voting for him, and I have alot of respect for that dude. I really don't want Harper in a majority government situation.

At least with the Liberals, we could watch them fuck up, catch them. Harper's camp has been WAY too silent. He's almost a dictator by the looks of it. He also wants our drug laws to look alot more like the states (part of the reason i think hes pushing to merge with the states somehow). That would be a HUGE step in the wrong direction, and all just to gain favor from a country that quite honestly.. isn't doing that well at the moment. Really, if we need to base our political choices on our neighboors, then they aren't very good neighboors. Fuck, he is really stupid. Look at the overcrowding in the states jail-wise! How many people are locked up from smoking a fucking joint because idiot redneck politicians that smoked once in college think it's as bad as cocaine.

Harper scares me man, especially with the drug/young offender policies he wants in place. I swear if I hear that my cousin, father, aunt, mom, fuck anyone I know went to jail over smoking a joint.. yeah, Harper's gonna wish Canada had a secret service to match the states.

[Noah]

I'd love to reply to that 404, but I don't want to derail this thread from Canadian politics.

[404 Not Found]

What does your candidates say about legalization of Cannabis?

I know that Mexican President Felipe Calderón's just announced that the U.S.-financed War on Drugs has had savage results in Mexico, and now he wants to decriminalize pot, cocaine and heroin possession.

About time they put a stop to that useless War on Drugs campaign.

On October 2, Calderón proposed legislation that would decriminalize drug possession, ostensibly for personal use. Not just for marijuana, as one might have expected in a country where pot smoke has not been demonized to the same degree as in the U.S., but for cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, as well.

If passed, Calderón's legislation would decriminalize up to 2 grams of marijuana, 500 milligrams of cocaine, 40 milligrams of meth, and 50 milligrams of heroin.

[Noah]

What does your candidates say about legalization of Cannabis?

[Squeezer]

happy election day Canada!

good luck and don't fuck up like we did...twice.

[Jeenyuss]

voting today?

currently i'm in psych class and my psych prof is running as a liberal mp for a riding in my city. not my riding. i'd vote for her. she's smokin' hot.

i'm voting ndp.

[Eric is God]

WTF???
http://www.thestar.com/article/512033


You're right about Dion, Eric but I think we need to start investing in infrastructure, for a long time now the cities have been left to fend for themselves. Now we have something like 120 billion short fall for roads, bridges, rail lines ect... The Conservatives just throw our surpluses down on debt or on some new budget item. The Liberals also have an action plan for public transit and we haven't seen a Conservative platform with 9 days until election day. So I think the Liberals have the better ideas and the people to implement them, just their leadership might be lacking with Dion. I don't trust the Conservatives to spend responsibly and their social agenda is controlled by the Reform party elements.

I think if they do get another minority Government the Tories aren't going to be very popular wasting 300 million on this election for the same results. But at that point hopefully it would send a signal to the party leaders that Canadians have no problems with minority Governments and if they can't work towards the center together then maybe we need to push for reforming it, and possibly relying more on the provincial/local level. A weak majority is more likely at this point.

I definitely agree with investment in infrastructure. After living in Waterloo for the last 2 years and seeing the state of their roads in the winter (foot deep potholes) I realized how spoiled I was living in Markham for over 20 years. If any party has a strong and believable plan to spend on infrastructure then I might actually cast a vote.

[Cops]

A few predictions on the different ridings

Halton Riding - Conservative, Garth Turner a current liberal got kicked out of the Conservative party for fighting people on his blog. This riding will definitely be picked up by the Conservatives.

Oakville - Liberal, This is more of a swing riding than Halton, I think the liberals might be able to pull it off. The Green candidate Dr. Blake Poland has done an immensely impressive job of swinging left voters to the Green party, the better he does at his job the less amount of people who will vote Liberal. I'm betting this riding will be decided by a mere few hundred votes.

Mississauga South - Liberal

Mississauga Streetsville - Liberal, this will be a tight race but there are a lot of angry people who will vote Liberal just to make sure Wajid Khan, aka the floor crosser doesn't represent us again. The Green candidate Otto Casanova hasn't shown the proper personality or credentials to be an MP, same with the NDP. This riding won't be a land-slide victory but I expect it to not be as close as Oakville.

Everything closer to Toronto, Etobicoke, and all the downtown ridings will either go to NDP or Liberal. It's probably going to be a conservative minority, again.