However It's Cut, Strategic Voting Is Just Wrong

Mulder

Via Bourque.com,

The Toronto Star has an article in which Paul Martin calls to NDP voters to vote strategically.

“There’s got to be a coalition of progressive voters,” Martin said in an interview with CBC TV yesterday.

“I think that that is the position that an awful lot of people who support the NDP are going to find themselves in. If they vote NDP, then obviously that’s not a progressive vote that’s going to win out, and the option to that is Stephen Harper, and I think a lot of people are going to take that into account.”

In my opinion, this circumvents the whole electoral process. We have many parties, we vote for the party whose platform we like best, and send the MP’s to Ottawa. Once there, it is up to all the parties to work together to decide on issues. Coalitions can be formed, sides taken on specific issues and votes, etc.

By Paul Martin calling for NDP voters to think about who the leader will be is a slap in the face to our intelligence and to our system of government. We do NOT vote for the leader of a country, Mr. Martin. You of all people should know that. You took over office without one citizen’s ballot cast for you to be our Prime Minister. This country’s system is a parliamentary one. We send our representative. If you don’t believe me, take a look at your ballot come election day. I guarantee you will never get a ballot that shows every party leader’s name on it. (Yes, some of you do vote for Martin or Harper, but you do so because you live in their riding).

Nuff said. I’m sick of the spin in this election. Can we not just get to Monday already?

Is There A Get Out Of Debt Free Card?

Mulder

I swear, she is going to become one of my favourite columnists. Sheila Copps has written another article dropping an election bomb. In her article Parties counting pennies–Elections Canada says Liberals in debt as they head into the final weeks of the campaign she lists some of the information posted at Elections Canada.

According to Elections Canada, in their last annual filing, the Liberal Party of Canada was $34,818,257.32 in debt, by way of 13 bank loans. The Bloc Quebecois has more than $10 million in outstanding loans, mostly from the Caisse Desjardins. The NDP has several modest loans outstanding, totalling a little more than $3 million. The Conservatives are debt-free.

The Liberal Party says the figure is inaccurate and that it is much lower. Even if they haven’t counted recent donations, I am really appreciating this one.

Knowing the party with the spit and polish commercials is in the hole and the party with the frugal, visually lacklustre, albeit informative, ads is in the black. I like the idea of the one in the black spending our tax dollars.

I have a suggestion for Paul Martin. Why not move the Liberal Party Of Canada legally to the Carribean? Do you know what the tax savings could be????…Oh wait…you do.