Canada Elections
So looks like the Conservatives have yet again another minority government. Now I understand the whole point of the last 2007 Referendum choosing "First Past The Post" (FPTP) system vs. the "Mixed Member Proportional" (MMP) system. If you look at the firsat link I posted, BQ won 50 seats in Parliment but only got 10% of the country's votes, where Green Party had 7% of the country's votes yet no seats in parliment. Make sense? I know, not really, but here in Canada we vote for MP's (Members of Parliment) who are local figures. The party with the most MP's in Parliment wins, even though much of the voters aren't being represented in parliment.
Here's a great interactive map that shows where are seats in Parliment come from. I have to congradulate Linda Duncan of Edmonton-Strathcona riding who managed to be the ONLY other party voted in in Alberta, NDP to boot despite the American-influenced oilfield industry Progressive Conservative majority. This is basically Canada's "Oil Belt". You can also see the concentration of the immigrant and business voters in Southern Ontario.
GO Green Party in the BC area for actually getting almost as many votes as Liberals overall. We're definately on our way to having a fouth major competitor here, but since they're so new, they're just having a hard time building credibility with the public. Let's just hope the Bloque disappears as the "French that were saved from assimilation of the English" (as I heard quoted) die off with the rest of the baby boomers. Give it up BQ, you're so last century. As the PC competitors in Quebec ask, "WTF has the Bloque really done for Canada thus far other than cause unnecissary turmoil and wasted tax payers' money with other Referendums?
Anyways, the Conservative have a hard time up ahead. If they can survive through this global financial crisis, they just may get anothr term, otherwise, they'll just prove to be another bunch of dummies like the Mulruney regime.
Here's a great interactive map that shows where are seats in Parliment come from. I have to congradulate Linda Duncan of Edmonton-Strathcona riding who managed to be the ONLY other party voted in in Alberta, NDP to boot despite the American-influenced oilfield industry Progressive Conservative majority. This is basically Canada's "Oil Belt". You can also see the concentration of the immigrant and business voters in Southern Ontario.
GO Green Party in the BC area for actually getting almost as many votes as Liberals overall. We're definately on our way to having a fouth major competitor here, but since they're so new, they're just having a hard time building credibility with the public. Let's just hope the Bloque disappears as the "French that were saved from assimilation of the English" (as I heard quoted) die off with the rest of the baby boomers. Give it up BQ, you're so last century. As the PC competitors in Quebec ask, "WTF has the Bloque really done for Canada thus far other than cause unnecissary turmoil and wasted tax payers' money with other Referendums?
Anyways, the Conservative have a hard time up ahead. If they can survive through this global financial crisis, they just may get anothr term, otherwise, they'll just prove to be another bunch of dummies like the Mulruney regime.