Monday, January 09, 2006
if canada somehow manages to get electoral reform and single transferable vote like in australia, this is how i would vote.
1. green
2. ndp
3. conservative
4. liberal
5. bloc
i'm a traditional liberal, but note that i would support the conservatives over the liberals. i'm a fiscal conservative and social liberal who likes jack layton and some of his ideas.
anyways conservative leader stephen harper has managed to get his party into the somewhat social liberal range - he is no longer really scary and i don't really believe he has a hidden agenda. he also represents change. maybe he can provide a new vision for the country. americans have always seemed to come up with grand visions that mobilize their people. civil wars, the cold war, the mission to the moon, the mission to mars (lol). canada needs something like that to develop its human capital. maybe we say our goal is clean energy. then we get all our kids to aspire to be engineers instead of astronauts.
1. green
2. ndp
3. conservative
4. liberal
5. bloc
i'm a traditional liberal, but note that i would support the conservatives over the liberals. i'm a fiscal conservative and social liberal who likes jack layton and some of his ideas.
anyways conservative leader stephen harper has managed to get his party into the somewhat social liberal range - he is no longer really scary and i don't really believe he has a hidden agenda. he also represents change. maybe he can provide a new vision for the country. americans have always seemed to come up with grand visions that mobilize their people. civil wars, the cold war, the mission to the moon, the mission to mars (lol). canada needs something like that to develop its human capital. maybe we say our goal is clean energy. then we get all our kids to aspire to be engineers instead of astronauts.
# posted by epn : 11:42 PM
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hey buddy, I haven't been doing the blog rounds for a while... so I'm happy to see your latest post is positive!
# posted by 
: 8:43 PM, January 11, 2006
: 8:43 PM, January 11, 2006
You don't think Harper has a hidden agenda? I don't know if he has a hidden agenda, so much as a different set of values than the average Canadian. Didn't he leave his seat in the Reform Party because he was upset over its direction toward a more social conservative stance? Before winning leadership of the Alliance, he led the National Citizens Coalition, which supports privatization, tax cuts and government spending cuts, and opposes the Canada Health Act, Canadian Wheat Board, unions and were once anti-immigration. (They were also opposed to government waste, one that we can all agree on.)
I'd like to know what percentage of the current Conservative candidates belonged to the Reform or Alliance, what percentage from the old Tories, and what percentage are new candidates. I think time has blunted our memories, and their campaign managers have managed to quiet down the hard-right. But recent headlines demonstrate that the feelings still exist...
With Harper as leader of the Conservatives, I will not put the Conservatives over the Liberals. Besides, I don't agree with two of the five key Tory priorities.
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I'd like to know what percentage of the current Conservative candidates belonged to the Reform or Alliance, what percentage from the old Tories, and what percentage are new candidates. I think time has blunted our memories, and their campaign managers have managed to quiet down the hard-right. But recent headlines demonstrate that the feelings still exist...
With Harper as leader of the Conservatives, I will not put the Conservatives over the Liberals. Besides, I don't agree with two of the five key Tory priorities.
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