Elections!

[cgb_nyc]

Montreal is a great city, socially. A recent opinion poll on the Canadian national political parties looked pretty much like those of the UK a week before their election. The highlight for me was to see how in Quebec, Canada's small-l liberal stronghold, the Green Party were out-polling the Conservatives. Great.

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election/erection

[cgb_nyc]

I can't believe any article drove you to look into the primary info on the parties; how dull.

Well done on finding CAP. I always liked the Canadian Action Party but they never had a candidate in my riding. I also wonder why they bother, they're like a fringe fringe party. The last election was the first time even the Greens cleared 4%.

The NDP are the "union party", during a time when unions aren't all that (seemingly) powerful. At least most people are pretty disenchanted with them in Canada; plus, the NDP tends to win provincial elections. When they win provincially, they lose federally. They are the 3rd party of politics but indeed, they're in search of a focus, right now that seems to be their leader. The Liberals are sucking up their centrist opinions and the Greens are eating away their environmental side, people don't much believe in the NDP on its own.

The Conservatives are now a right-wing party that was formed from a righter-wing party (the Reform Party) first splitting off then taking over the Progressive Conservative Party, who were mostly rightish-wing before the split when they listed back to port: "Socially progressive, fiscally conservative". The takeover ditched the "progressive" part and now they are seen as US-loving wolves in sheep's clothing.

Re: election/erection

[cgb_nyc]

The best party to come about was the Natural Law Party, who believed in Yogic flying - some sort of meditation that always the cross-legged meditator to float through the air...



from the UK website:

"The party has been receiving growing support throughout the world. Nation-wide surveys in Canada in 1993 found that 60% of Canadians would like to see the formation of an all-party government, as proposed by the Natural Law Party, and a majority supported the implementation of the party's health care and rehabilitation programmes. In the 1993 and 1997 federal elections in Canada the Natural Law Party received up to 1% of the vote. Everyone in the country was made aware of the party's policy of establishing a group of 7,000 Yogic Flyers to create integrated national consciousness and resolve problems."