A very interesting little tool designed by academics and hosted by the CBC. You give your opinion on various issues, and at the end it tell you which party (ies) is closest to your opinions/beliefs
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Yeahhhh...there's some...debate as to whether or not the compass is entirely honest. It seems that there are an awful lot of people who just became liberals out there...much to their surprise.
Heh, umm, no. The current Liberal party is not centrist. It's horning in on the NDP's turf to the left. Compare them to Chretien's Liberals in the 90's and see what I mean. People may think Harper is right wing, but he's slowly becoming center right.
No, when people who are avowed Conservatives and Avowed NDP can't get themselves identified that way on that survey no matter what they choose for answers, the CBC is meddling in political affairs instead of reporting them...again..
I think at this point we should ask ourselves 2 questions:
1: are the questions asked in the survey "representative" - ie is this a reasonable array of questions?
2: are the parties' positions well represented in the "grid".
For example, on the question "possession of marijuana should be a criminal offence", the conservative position is "strongly agree", the bloq, liberals and NDP are "somewhat disagree" and the green party is "strongly disagree". Is this an good representation of the parties' position on the issue?
If you say yes to 1, and likewise on 2, then the test is fair. If not, it shows indeed that the devil is in the details.
All I know is there was a report in the Sun sometime this week that followed a Queen's University prof who took the survey a bunch of times over and over and she found it was...weighted to say the least.
So, yeah, again, the CBC overstepping its mandate.
The prof's various tests all generated centrist positions - like say agree strongly on half the questions at random, and strongly disagree on the other half. This tended to steer results towards centrism parties.
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No, when people who are avowed Conservatives and Avowed NDP can't get themselves identified that way on that survey no matter what they choose for answers, the CBC is meddling in political affairs instead of reporting them...again..
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1: are the questions asked in the survey "representative" - ie is this a reasonable array of questions?
2: are the parties' positions well represented in the "grid".
For example, on the question "possession of marijuana should be a criminal offence", the conservative position is "strongly agree", the bloq, liberals and NDP are "somewhat disagree" and the green party is "strongly disagree". Is this an good representation of the parties' position on the issue?
If you say yes to 1, and likewise on 2, then the test is fair. If not, it shows indeed that the devil is in the details.
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So, yeah, again, the CBC overstepping its mandate.
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