Yeah there's a federal election today WHO KNEW??
If you could vote for the ndp or liberals that would be cool but just go vote that's whats really important* :allears:
*seriously though please don't vote for the conservatives
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Yeah there's a federal election today WHO KNEW??
If you could vote for the ndp or liberals that would be cool but just go vote that's whats really important* :allears:
*seriously though please don't vote for the conservatives
voting for the conservatives
jk not voting at all
http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles...ography-02.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by CN3089
that is simply not true
Voted Pirate Party because I'm not at all a fan of any of the parties that could actually win.
voter_turnout++;
Wait wait wait...Quote:
Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack
Canada has a PIRATE party?!?!?!?
When will it come to America, and how do I sign up?
Around 40% of our population has no faith in the system, great huhQuote:
Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack
I think only like 40% of America votes ;_;
Well gee maybe we should be considering a form of government instead of this de mock ras see
We should have just made FDR immortal and made him God-King of America. The guy was beastly for a dude who couldn't walk.
i r not Canuck :saddowns:
I voted last week because I'm that awesome.
Conservatives receive exact same amount of the popular vote, end up with more seats because the electorate has actually shifted away from the right
can we have electoral reform now
seriously
:smith::smith::smith::smith::smith::smith::smith:
i told you to beware those polls bro
also the bloc might lose official party status
so everybody's happy about that at least :)
hahahah this is disgusting, the guy lies to the other parties, and forces an election due to non confidence, and gets a majority in return, nice.
Found in contempt of parliament? No problem, Ignatieff's incompetence will hand us a majority :harpersmug:
This is ridiculous. A Conservative majority?
Are people just marking the 'X' on the first entry on the list?
This.Quote:
Originally Posted by CN3089
no
smart people are splitting votes among the good parties
and retards only vote conservative
4.5 years of hell incoming
say goodbye to the cbc, gay marriage, abortion and the public healthcare system
it was nice knowing you :(
how's france doing these days?
how will we get married now cn ??????? : ((((((
there's always the netherlands :)
fuck yes lets do it
you and me baby ;3
Applicable to your southern neighbours as well. Sounds like you guys are getting dragged into the same shitstorm we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by CN3089
Oh you poor Commonwealth countries. This is why I love our constitution.
Reminder that only 1 in 5 Canadians actually cast a ballot for the Conservatives, who will rule Canada for the next five years :)
Come to America, we have cookies.
And gay marriage in taxachuschetts.
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Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Canadian constitution act of 1982 amuses me, what? Not as legit as the document that all other constitutions written in the last 235 years are based on.
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In an interview this morning with Bill Good on CKNW in Vancouver, Stephen Harper openly campaigned for the Conservative Party of Canada, asking listeners to "vote Conservative" in defiance of Elections Canada rules and regulations that state no campaigning may be done during the media blackout on election day.
During the interview Stephen Harper contravined the Elections Canada Act by stating that "It is certain that I will vote, and I encourage all other people to vote, and I encourage people to do the same as me and vote Conservative."
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This breach of the Elections Canada Act also comes on the heels of alleged voter fraud in swing ridings at risk of losing Conservative control, as voters are being telephoned in these sensitive ridings and falsely being informed that their polling stations have been changed. In some cases voters have been sent as far as one hour away from where they are supposed to be voting by these fraudulant calls.
Source
That second quote is just...wow. That is like shit the Republicans would do.
Wait, the former Prime Minister isn't allowed to campaign for a party? What a strange law... Man I feel bad for you guys. Everything CN# and you have shown is like unbelievable. Sounds like its time for a United North America to me. I heard our black guy just killed Bin Laden...
Also free cookies if you join up with us. You can be part of Alaska!!!
Just throwing this out here, as one of the handful of people with no faith in our democratic system preventing me from seeing it be worthwhile to vote; If less than 60% of our population is in that boat, it's pretty obvious we need some kind of reform in the election system, instead of using an antiquated model from a hundred years ago.
your system is even worse than ours sorry budQuote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Yeah we don't want your system. That's why we're up here.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Also, they're allowed to campaign for their party. The key part of that comment was "during the media blackout on election day."
The law is mostly around to make sure poll results from the East doesn't influence poll results from the West who are 5.5 timezones back.
If we did unite, it would not be one system or the other. It would be a new one.
Finally, a majority government. Lets get some shit done without bullshit interference from idiots who, if the recent election is any indication, don't know how to even run a party correctly.
Seriously though, Conservative majority with NDP Opposition? It's been Conservative/Liberal for as long as I can remember, Liberal party gone and fucked up this election big time. It doesn't help that Ignatieff looks like Skinner from Hot Fuzz:
http://images.blu-ray.com/reviews/1782_2.jpg
If people are basing who they're voting for based on the LOOKS of the party leader then they shouldn't be voting at all.
Oh, you mean the idiots who caught him lying to their faces and thought he wasn't fit to continue to lead the government, yeah. Are you serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Yeah but its not our fault. The 1890s were a really bad time for Federal law making :( Plus your conservative party makes ours look like Nazis. We could create an even better system!!! We'll even forgive the whole not joining in our glorious revolution thing!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CN3089
I agree, that's why I said it doesn't help. Having a shitty election plan is what didn't get them votes obviously.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
Yup. Every Government "lies" from a certain point of view.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
I'm not interested in debating interpretations of the word, he was voted out by a non confidence vote freelancer, he was found in contempt of parliament for willfully and intentionally falsifying critical information.
This man, is now running our country. If you can't see anything wrong with that jesus christ.
Our secretary of the treasury 'forgot' to pay his taxes and he still got the job. :/\Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
Yeah, but I liked to think that being Canada we were better than you guys.
Apparently we aren't lol
Wait I thought he got barred? Or did he just do his back pay and they let him in?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwood
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
Only at hockey, and even then just barely. :p We're pretty even the rest of the way through.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
Except that our higher population has breed all kinds of idiots. Canada doesn't seem quite as stupid. The election was split by two competing parties Sel. Maybe they will unite and crush the conservatives next time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Ignatieff really didn't do much to dispel those attacks on his patriotism by resigning from party leader position after he lost...
It's proportional. Every country has the same ratio, people just like to talk about it more in America.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Also, Ignatieff is butthurt.
They like to ignore the listobums in the other bazillion square miles that aren't french new york.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
Or there won't be a next time now that the conservatives can do whatever the fuck they want.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
His incompetence led to the Liberals being essentially wiped out and in all likelihood being made completely irrelevant by the time 2015 rolls around, if he tried to stick around he would've been purged anywayQuote:
Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack
sounds like Canada is flying into a shit storm?
why dont the left wing parties form a coalition like in australia.
where the liberal, and national party pool votes for government.
Because Harper has a Majority conservative government, and can do whatever the fuck he wants because he has over 51% control of the house of commons, even if the other parties got together they still wouldn't be able to counter his decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bodzilla
Maybe they will pull a democrats and mutiny against his bills?Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
^ Lol
But then again...Republicans have split into two factions as well. Time for a new party.
You mean they split into the Crazies and the Regular Conservatives?Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
The Democrats are such a waste of space in party politics. There is no party unity, and all they stand for is not being the Republicans. A basket of socks could do what they do.
And all the Republicans stand for these days are the corporations which fund each individual official in addition to not being liberals.
Is it pretty much the same in Candadia, guys?
You said it not me. I was hoping someone would who wasn't a Democrat lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
no my point is why didnt they do that EARLIER.Quote:
Originally Posted by NVOUS
They tried. Harper shut down Parliament to avoid the actual confidence vote that would have brought down his government. Twice. :v:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bodzilla
This doesn't happen in Canada. If the vote is whipped then you either vote with your leader it or they kick you out of the caucus.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Don't worry. If you guys go all dictatorial the USA will send in the troops to remove any WMDs he might have...
:downs:
Shut down parliament? To avoid being ousted? That seems like it would constitute him being forcibly removed. >_>
He didn't shut down parliament. That's not how it works.Quote:
Originally Posted by TeeKup
He asked the Governor General, an appointed representative from the Queen of England, to shut down parliament and she did.
There's a big distinction.
lol, Queen of England. You poor chaps.
Oh Monarchys. You poor souls :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Phopojijo
Not like the Harper government. Well, he's in now. Maybe we can change him to be a better person since he's happy that he has a majority. Who knows, shit might get done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
Haha, who am I kidding? The last conservative majority in Canada was steeped in almost a decade of scandals.
Brian Mulroney
Queen of Canada :hist101:Quote:
Originally Posted by Phopojijo
The Queen doesn't choose the Governor General, just making sure we all realize that.
The Prime Minister advises the Queen who to appoint as the Governor-General. The appointment is based solely on the advice of the PM and no other person.
Basically how it works in all commonwealth countries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Lol suck. You guys should have just made so many checks and balances that the system is useless. Works out much better than Queens picking out there favorite friends for each country.
Well, to be fair, how are our own checks and balances working in our favour right now?
Because it has put our government at a stalemate just like our forefathers intended! Haven't you ever read about the constitutional convention? They couldn't agree about anything and by the time it was over some were threatening to form a partition government. Its the American way :iamafag:Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
No. There is no stalemate. Congress has power over everything whether we like it or not. They can override a Presidential veto AND they can approve Justices.
Thats my point. Under the original bounds of the constitution 70% of the power resides within Congress. Thats why we made it bicameral. With so many members it is impossible for there to not be naysayers on any bill. Our government is built so that unless the bill is super moderate and watered down, or if its a time of crisis, it won't pass. Thats what the fore fathers wanted. A moderate government.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
That's not the point. The point is that the people in Congress can run the country into the ground as they want without consequence. They can prevent the necessary changes to government that would turn everything around.
What the founding fathers wanted was a government for the people, by the people. Now it's for Congress, by Congress. And don't even try to tell me that Congress represents the people who voted them in.
We are getting off topic now. Back to Canada.
I'm often glad that our 'founding fathers' were all drunks so we don't have all these useless arguments about what they would have wanted our country to look like
didnt see this thread. Voted NDP.
Shame they didn't win.
Why does that party name remind me of something? :v:
fun fact: their french acronym is in fact NPD
I'm probably biased since his mother is kind of a family friend (lives in my community), see her at community events/dinners/etc and I've met and talked to Mr. Harper many times. TBH, never really about political stuff though. The friend I know that is also in the community is like me and into military/law enforcement stuff so we usually end up talking to him and his security escort dudes about related shit lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
Last time we talked to him was relatively close to the point where the Parliament RCMP security guys were re-issued their MP5's. We were having fun talking to his security guys about them and they even showed us one that they had in one of their vehicles (we weren't allowed to hold it or anything obviously). They took us through the operation and really basic field stripping though which was pretty cool and nice of them to do, they're a lot less stick-up-ass than USA Secret Service types from what I can tell.
LOOKIT OUR GUNS
so yeah we're pretty much america now
Well yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freelancer
I mean, who would want to kill the prime minister of Canada?
Have you guys ever had a PM killed?
Only in video games.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
I'm sure the FLQ would've loved to take a shot at TrudeauQuote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
http://wonkette.com/445662/canada-sh...-north-now-too
the bright side of our impending doom is that wonkette now reports on us from time to time
Hey guys, guess what? Harper just appointed three people to the senate who were rejected by the Canadian people in the election just two weeks ago. And one of the guys even said while running in the election that he has no place in the Senate. Oh really?
I'm telling you guys. Join up with us. We'll have beers and McDonalds all around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amit
fuck no
lets move to norway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01mTKDaKa6Q
We have plenty of beer and McDonalds up here too... and much less bullshit, and much better and cheaper health care.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Also our McDonalds and beer is regulated by government agencies to ensure it isn't as toxic as you guys'.
Typical Canadian pork barrel spending If I could have my guns I'd probably join youQuote:
Originally Posted by thehoodedsmack
You know there are things that are worth spending money on.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Check my ninja. I do vote Democrat you know <.< >.>
I had the feeling that was sarcastic. From now on I'l gonna be highlighting your posts to make sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by TVTyrant
Better than if NDP had have won.
Are you so sure? They've never won yet so we don't know their potential.
Never won federally. They fucked Ontario in the 90s.
Harsh economic times call for action, not liberal bullshit.
Stop do not troleQuote:
Originally Posted by TPBlinD
Idealistic students are the only ones who voted for NDP.