Canadian Election Poll

[Olie]

So, the aim is pretty simple.
Post who you'd vote for if the Canadian election was taking place right now.
Also, please only vote if you are familiar with the candidates.

 

[Jackal]

harper because everyone else sucks

elizabeth may in second but she prolly wouldnt know how to handle this economy crisis, although she would do a lot of other positive things

 

[moi]

As of now, I'd vote Liberal FOR MY RIDING. This is due to the strong Liberal presence in Etobicoke Lakeshore. Michael Ignatieff is my Liberal representative, and I believe him to be a fairly strong member of the Liberal party.

 

[Vineon]

Michael Ignatieff is my Liberal representative, and I believe him to be a fairly strong member of the Liberal party.

Is he really threatened in his own riding?

This is what I heard but I find it hard to believe. You make it sound like it was bullshit.

 

[moi]

Honestly I see no threat coming from his own riding. Toronto has always been a fairly Red City and the fact is this riding has been Red for as long as I've lived.

In all honesty, most strong members of parties tend to get a lot of votes in their ridings, and Ignatieff is no exception. Unless over the course of 2 years all of these people have had an extreme flip flop there is no way he loses

 

[Olie]

as far as my Riding, the PC candidate Rona Ambrose's office is across the street to my house, naturally all the PC support signs are all I see.

Not to mention all the liberal bashing on TV. But in all honestly she's a very strong candidate.

 

[-Nitro-]

I'm probably going conservative. Though, I am in Harper's riding.

Edit: No wait, I'm one riding over.

 

[Vineon]

I couldn't ever vote for Dion, mastermind behind the Clarity Act. Not mentionning 12 recent years of unchallenged constant reign by the Liberals eventually led to corruption scandals.

I cannot vote for the Conservatives, being on the moral right end of the spectrum although to be frank, they don't have much room to change progressive social gains made under the Liberal governements in recent years even if they wanted to. That would make them clash with the roughly generally progressive Canadian population. I do not enjoy his hypocrisy either and his "green plan" is exactly what it is. Its about as green as oil is, it consists of plans for the 2050s, nothing at all for the present. Everytime I hear the word "green" coming out of their mouth, it makes me want to puke.

Leaves the NPD and being a Québécois, the Bloc. Jack Layton has no governing experience and it shows. However, socialism is what defines me, they claim they will stand up to banks, insurance companies and oil prices.. sounds naive, but it sells to me. The Bloc couldn't ever form a governement or even manage what they did in the early 90s, which was becoming the official opposition party. Moreover, as a Québec separatist, I find it generally counter-producing to have separatists in Ottawa.

Which would make me vote NPD if my candidate was Thomas Mulcair, who is the only NPD candidate with any sort of support in the province. He is also very likely to be the next leader of his party. But he isn't, which means I vote for the Bloc, the only vote that helps towards the conservatives not getting elected in my riding.

Theres nothing to come out for Québec from a majority conservative government. Theres a lot to come out for it however with any kind of minority government.

As for the Greens, I know nothing about them, they get 0 media exposure here.