Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Well up here in Canada we are in the midst of election time and just finished watching the debates I can't say much has changed. Nor can I say that there really was a need for it but we go to the polls on May the 2nd. Somehow I think we will have the same Prime Minister but that is just my own thoughts... http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/story/2011/04/12/cv-election-debate-main.html#
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Here's hoping.....
ReplyDeleteWill it's the same old same old...I think it's really a waste of time to be honest.
ReplyDeleteI respect you Will as you speak your mind and I think that most are not into politics for this very reason as we want an excursion from all of this.
ReplyDeleteSo we Hope...lets trade and come back and exchange ideas within this era.
Ohhh you are in Election time too, we have our local ellections coming up and another vbox to tick for the Alternative Voting system!
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy politics and like to be informed, but sometimes these broadcasts are like mini feature films and it takes time to figure out the plot haha
Someone identifing themselves as "Two Sense" wrote this on the CBC comment area under the article on the debate:
ReplyDelete"On May 2 the people of Canada will go to the poll to choose the least incompetent of three incompetent candidates. (The Block are not even a Party in my opinion). As far as I'm concerned none of these parties deserve to be in power. Are these people the BEST this Country has to offer?"
This sounds very much like an American lament--only we have just two viable parties.
Thanks for sharing this Jack. Reading about these debates I am reminded that rancor we have over issues in the USA is not confined to our domestic political power blocs.
Karen I enjoy seeing what they have to say. I watched the debates last night and I like as well to be informed. We are of a parliamentary system. Prime Minister Harper I feel is fine and has made very good decisions. His major was Economics and he comes from Calgary. The other three formed a coalition against PM Harper when I feel he made the right decisions. He is brilliant and he has never faltered on one thing.
ReplyDeleteHere like you the Government here at any time can call an election. I think PM Harper did so just to allow these three others have their chance to challenge what he has done. I have always enjoyed politics, as without a country without a government there’s no foundation from which a country sits. So it will be interesting to see where things go as Harper I feel is young but he has never wavered with the exception to calling an election, which costs three million. That was a waiver I believe...there is one from my fathers side that was the Governor General here. So it's always been something that I do enjoy. I never realized that you have an election coming up there as well. But our process campaigning process is only three months, monetarily.
I never looked at what this person said Doug. Canada is a different governmental system but Doug, I feel that one leader has never waffled with the exception of calling this election - as mentioned above to Karen. Canadians are much like Americans with all of this Doug. The Block party has a decent leader yet within the history of Canada - the Block is or was the foundation of the seperatitist movements and special privy to one province (much like a state). Here we do have the same concerns in many ways as the US. Yet Harper is one that has never waivered and has been in term almost the longest of any PM. The three other candidates in my opinion don't even come close to the experience of Prime Minister Harper. He is a sensible person and within Canada there is that division that comes about as Harper is from out west here. The last time in Canada's history that their was a western Prime Minister was Lester B. Pearson. I never have believed in the Bloc Doug and I never shall. Within most all other countries as within the USA, you don't have a state that has requested special privy. As well, still there is seperation and discourse as the Bloc basically is Quebec. A country is the sum of all provinces (states). But the large game that is happening here is taxes and the very same issues that are being faced in United States. I believe in one nation and I myself feel that economically we have stayed sound due to the decisions made by the current Prime Minister. But many Canadians are fed up with the decision of this to take place at this time as it was not necessary. If you have the chance to read up on Harper you will find someone that has really kept Canada in tact. I don't think many really even would consider to run for Prime Minister at this time.
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