OT: Canadian Federal Election

[BlackRose]

Well if those are your views (I dont agree whith a lot of them) then you definately should be voting Conservative.

About the 'tree hugger' greens. I think you should read a bit more about them. There is a misconception that there even more leftest that the NDP, this is simply not true. The NDP and the Greens do have some common ground but not as much as many people think.

About their policies in BC, well they actually enjoy more support in BC than anywhere esle and by all acounts that continues to grow. The greens want to invest in creating sustainable industry. Simply put no body can argue anymore about us ruining our environment and sooner rather than later running out of those trees and oil that you consider to be so valuable to the economy. Likely in your life time the world will experience a major shortage in one or both of those industries. Simply put we need to explore other alternatives.

I too live in BC and just because I feel alienated doesnt mean i'm ready to take the step into those waiting conservative arms. I'm going to be blunt here but the Conservative Ideal is going the way of the Dodo. This election of the 4 major parties 1 is left/centre 2 are left and the greens (if you count them as the fifth) are left/centre as well. The conservatives were in a posistion (now united) to gain all that vote on the right as there is no other right alternative. At best 1 out of 6 elegible voters actually voted for them (including the non voters).

Not to begrudge you of your opinion but as a Canadian Alternative their interest seems to be dwindling more and more each year.

Weapons in space is such a bizarre notion its hard to attack it seriously. But where do you think these laser beams would intercept these missles? Any way you look at it its gonna be a major nuke somewher and the size of these warheads these days it pretty much doesnt matter where it is detonated its gonna cause world wide trouble, just a matter of if you die in the bLast of suffer from all the after affects weeks/months or years later. It's stupid, just a stupid as the US/Soviet build up of Nukes in the 70's Each power being able to obliterate the earth many times over.

How would STARWARS prevent the sept 11 attacks? Or assuming we go the way of Israel would that system protect them? I think we're seeing that those are the wars of the future and any space based weapons programs are all but useless. (I cant resist) This isnt Space Empires here

The military doesnt need a lot of what the Conservatives want for them, I strongly reccomend you read up on what the Greens want for the military you might find some common ground. All in all you have to think what those investments would be used for. You dont like the fact that the Conservatives would have sent our troops to Iraq, well let me tell you, if we had been under the Conservatives we would have sent a lot more than we would have been able to at this point. The Conservatives would use that funding in just those kind of unilateral engagements eager to reinstate some archaic chest thumping that Canadians dont have much interest in.