OT: Canadian Federal Election

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I can't beleive some of you would still vote NDP. UGH!

I say we give Paul Martin one chance.

[Grandpa Kim]

VOTE?!

Here's what they have to do to get my vote:

Gain power.
Keep their promises.
Have the incredible serendipidy of having their promises match my desires.

Then I will vote for them.

What it boils down to is I don't believe a bloody word they say. Why vote for any of them?

The track record of all Canadian politicians is such that they can't be believed. Until they change their spots I will vote for none of them. I shall retain my franchise and not waste it by voting.

[tesco samoa]

Katchoo there are no Conservatives anymore... Unfortanty the Liberals are the closest thing to a tory now.

And that party reminds me of an american party. ( No offence to our strange neighbours to the south , east and north of me ) Lots of I believe and I believe

NDP gets in and were in deep trouble. .. Soccar Mom will help bring this country to its knees...

Bet we can hope for is a Tory minority that gets kicked out within 14 months... Cause they do not have their act together and their economic platform is just brutal.

[Renegade 13]

There are a couple of big reasons why I would vote Conservative:

#1: They're promising to get rid of the gun registry, which has been a screw up of epic proportions. And they're gonna replace it with a national sex offender registry, which to me sounds like a great idea.

#2: Their platform doesn't call for huge spending, like the NDP's does. Have you seen the figures?? 65 Billion in new spending. How are they going to get it back? TAXES!

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
You guys vote? I honestly didn't know that. I always thought that you guys went by the monarch system of government. He with the money rules.

Are you serious? I sometimes wonder what they teach in US schools of the world outside the US. I had my sister-in-law once tell me that the US was the only free country in the world.

No, we have a political system similar to that of the UK and other commonwealth countries.

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He just gotta be joking, but it'd be a bLast if he was serious!

Originally posted by Renegade 13:
There are a couple of big reasons why I would vote Conservative:

#1: They're promising to get rid of the gun registry, which has been a screw up of epic proportions. And they're gonna replace it with a national sex offender registry, which to me sounds like a great idea.

Hmm, give back the guns and tell the people where the sex offenders are, a way of solving overcrowding in prisons I suppose, but not the way I'd propose... (I'm not defendeing them but murder is a bit over the top, and I know that I'll get contradictions, won't anser those as this is an election thread.
Couldn't just not point out the connection there guns - offenders...)

[ June 19, 2004, 04:49: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Gun registry's do not stop criminals. Criminals do not register guns. And they are less likely to be caught with an unregistered gun. And the only way to be sure someone doesn't have an unregistered gun and is to do house-to-house sweeps.

Gun registry's are a stupid idea. As long as you have sales records and serial numbers, which we have in Canada, you have all you need to investigate spontanious crime.

Organized crime files the serial numbers off if it's gonna be used in a crime.

[TerranC]

We want the Canadian Gun Registry scrapped not because of what it's trying to do and its merit; we wanna scrap it because it has wasted 1 Billon Dollars (Canadian Funds) of our (the taxpayer's) money.

The Liberals deserve to be taken down a notch just for that alone.

Originally posted by Ruatha:
#1: They're promising to get rid of the gun registry, which has been a screw up of epic proportions. And they're gonna replace it with a national sex offender registry, which to me sounds like a great idea.

give back the guns and tell the people where the sex offenders are, a way of solving overcrowding in prisons I suppose, but not the way I'd propose... (I'm not defendeing them but murder is a bit over the top, and I know that I'll get contradictions, won't anser those as this is an election thread.
Couldn't just not point out the connection there guns - offenders...)

Edited: Typos and Format

Edit: to answer the renegade's question; If I had to vote (say, somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to vote), I would vote Conservative or NDP, but in reality, I wouldn't vote at all; I don't particularly see Stephen Harper as our prime minister, and I don't like their plan to get our own Version of the HMS Ocean when we should be thinking about replacing our equipement, not adding new ones to the maintenance queue. I think Tesco best described the NDP platform, and I'd rather jump into the St. Lawrence river than vote Parti Quebecois. I'd vote for the green party, if they got rid of that 20% gas tax, which they probably won't, and I wouldn't want the liberals to stay, unless I felt like going to LaSalle (Paul Martin's home riding) and personally give my pin numbers to let Paul Martin use them at his discretion so he could finance another report about anything about anyone three-fold.

[ June 19, 2004, 06:31: Message edited by: TerranC ]